Has anyone here seen this? TCM aired it a while back, and I watched it on my Tivo this evening.
That was ONE.WEIRD.FLICK. I’m surprised John Waters wasn’t somehow involved in this freak-fest.
I remember watching it on cable not too long after it came out. Weird, but funny. Haven’t seen it in over 30 years.
Robert Beltran in the title role, and some hilarious cameos. Haven’t seen it years, either. Not to everyone’s taste.
I saw it on TCM…it was kinda strange…Robt.Beltram was so young!
I watched it a million years ago when I was too young to really get it. I don’t even really remember the film now to be honest. I just remember that I rented it with a friend, on VHS. I even forget which friend!
I still have my VHS copy as well as a DVD. Awesome movie. Mmmmmmmmmmm Mary Woronov…
Srsly, this was a weird and wonderful movie when it came out and it still is. Paul Bartel was a genius.
Great minds think alike. 
Paul Bartel was always fine, and Mary Woronov was always a pleasure to watch in a movie. But Eating Raoul was not so much wonderful as it was weird, IMHO.
It came highly recommended, so I saw it. I didn’t like it. I gave it a second chance, and still didn’t like it. It was just too weird for me.
I thought it was mildly amusing and I liked the quirkiness. I don’t think I’d seek it out, but I’d be willing to watch it again.
If you think that’s quirky, take a look at Bartel’s Scenes from the Class Conflict in Beverly Hills. Just don’t make the mistake of watching it with your parents…
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Class Struggle not class conflict
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I think that’s a better movie, too.
I had a friend who watched it thinking it was Down and Out in Beverly Hills. That was pretty funny to watch unfold in front of me.
Liked it when it was new, haven’t seen it in decades.
For years I thought it was Raul Julia in the titular role. Memory’s a funny thing.
Paul Bartel made some interesting films.
I saw Eating Raoul in the theater when it came out. All the reviews warned that it would be a weird experience, because Bartel and Woronov were very weird people (the two of them were also excellent in the 1978 Ramones vehicle Rock and Roll High School.)
The best scene was when Buck Henry and all the other “swingers” were in the hot tub, yelling for Woronov to join them, and Bartel yelled something like “Take THIS, swingers!” And threw the bug zapper in, which electrocuted them all instantly.
I think I saw it at least twice with a friend who was determined to convert me to the wonder of fine film making. I was not won over. Not to my taste. 
Very nice. 
I was going to say I did watch it long ago and loved it. But then people started saying it was funny. Nope, not the movie I saw. I was confusing it with The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
Seen it? I went to a screening of it when it came out!
And I have the DVD.
I think of it every time I use a cast iron frying pan.
It’s been an eon since I saw either one, but my recollection is that I found Eating Raoul funny in a weird sort of way, but I found *The Cook etc. *weird in a disgusting sort of way.
I would be interested in seeing if I still found Eating Raoul funny. I would not waste 2 hours of my life on a second viewing of The Cook etc.
I remember the scene where Bartel’s character was picking up props from an X-rated store, and the manager kept trying to upsell him on the raunchier stuff. For some reason, it just resonated with me, probably because I went to one of those places once and bought a blow-up sheep as a gag gift, and I remember the creepy manager recommending something more durable.
“Gag gift.” Sure.