House of Spoils is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. It stars Ariana DeBose, Barbie Ferreira and Arian Moayed. It is produced by Jason Blum under his Blumhouse Television banner, Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath under their Divide/Conquer banner, and Drew Houpt, Alex Scharfman and Lucas Joaquin under their Secret Engine banner.
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Ambitious in her field, "Chef" leaves a mentorship under prestigious chef Marcello to take over a remote, dilapidated restaurant in hopes of creating a fine-dining establishment, backed by her business partner Andreas, who has secured investment capital. She gives up her apartment and begins living at the new restaurant. She was not Andreas' first choice. He had originally partnered with a chef named Magnus but does not detail his departure.
On the day of a menu tasting involving Andreas, his primary investor Toli, and restaurant critic Hiral, Chef finds her prepared foods spoiled, riddled with mold, and infested with insects. The on-site garden has also been destroyed by rabbits. She sends her local employee Alvin to find ingredients from specialty stores and markets, but he returns with low-quality ingredients from a grocery store, as all of her chosen vendors aren't open on Sunday. Despite these setbacks, Chef prepares a fine dining experience, which Toli is fond of but Hiral criticizes as unadventurous, lacking "voice." Andreas insists that Chef take on his friend Lucia as her sous chef.
