“Human Hibachi” (* out of four) was an unappetizing horror melodrama about a man (Sopheaktra Theng) who films the 30th birthday of his girlfriend (Elizabeth Gaynor) while out with their friends (Carmine Giordano and Carley Harper) but soon find that the restaurant they’re eating at is cooking and consuming human flesh and that they’re on the menu. Disgusting and stupid enough in equal measure to give anyone indigestion and the low-rent minimalism and production is no help. Writer/director Mario Cerrito III seems to be trying for macabre humor and irony but it backfires pretty badly; watch 1989’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover” for same story with much more style and sizzle.

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