This is the first foreign language film of the month. Although I’ve been watching most of the films with the subtitles on because I would like to see if they are still scary if you are hard of hearing. They are. I’m un-brave.

A family of French vegetarians drop their daughters off at veterinarian school where her sister is also attending. The drop off is exactly how you would expect the French to drop off their children–in the middle of an empty parking lot, with a good-bye cigarette, and a reassuring, “You’ll find your sister eventually.”

This is a legacy family and the youngest daughter is going in with both high expectations of herself and others. However, when she gets there she finds out the college is just full of dumb humans and overworked professors. The girl (Justine) experiences her first college party after a vet school hazing ritual of dumping all the freshmen’s belongings out their dorm windows. Good to know shitty kids go to school all over the world.

The hazing continues for a week, which includes the eating of raw animal meat. In this case, raw rabbit liver, which will probably be a delicacy at some posh NYC food truck next week called “LapinItUp.”

Anyway, the family is ULTRA-strict vegetarians and Justine is admittedly against the hazing ritual for obvious reasons. However, her older sister, Alexia, basically forces her to do it, so she doesn’t bring shame upon her family. Which is ironic, because the end result is a BIT more than just shame.

Justine develops an unnatural addiction to gas station shawarma, and a somewhat natural addition to human flesh after the ingestion of the raw meat. Her roommate, a gay man (which apparently is allowed in French schools), helps her hide her addiction to meat, while her sister tries to help her with her addiction to being the next Hannibal Lector.

That’s when it get’s…weird? But like, French-weird. Justine is now sexy and also going through withdrawals. So it’s a lot of dancing in mirrors cut with scenes of the DTs. It’s an interesting take on the tired vampire genre. Cannibalism isn’t sexy, kids. Neither is going to vet school. It’s amazing with all these vet students around witnessing flesh attacks, no one tested her for rabies. But I guess at Cannibal Vet U, there are no rules. Including the fact that you’re just allowed to bring your dog to your dorm. This place is bananas. This movie, though, it’s pretty clever.