History Main / CannibalLarder

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* Marvel Comics' Wendigo has this when he has a base of operations.

* The TropeCodifier would be the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''. Ubiquitous in CannibalClan movies.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series:
** The Butcher's room in ''VideoGame/Diablo1997''.
** Bastion Keep's Larder in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' becomes this after Ghom invades.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series:

* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'': Towards a later part of the story, Kouji suspects something weird is going on with Fuminori, and sneaks into his home. He finds his fridge stuffed with human body parts and organs prepared to eat, and realizes he's too far gone to save. [[spoiler:Fuminori however doesn't perceive his actions as cannibalism, since he has a condition that makes him [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness hallucinate]] [[HumansAreCthulhu humans as horrifying]] {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and sees an EldritchAbomination as the only human in the world, who brought him the food. He thought he was eating some sort of tasty, albeit slimy gruel.]]

** The Butcher's room in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo|1997}}''.

** The Butcher's room in ''VideoGame/DiabloI''.

A likely candidate for a Most Gruesome Set Design award, this is a grisly must-have for schlock horror movies that employ the ImAHumanitarian trope, and appears from time to time in the harsher ToServeMan stories as well. Typically it'll feature bloody butchers' tools, red spatters on the walls, [[FliesEqualsEvil buzzing flies]] on the soundtrack, and possibly a PeekABooCorpse of someone known to the hapless victim who stumbles into the place. Often, the mangled remains on display will be so decomposed that someone would have to be a soulless psychopath with no vomit reflex to eat so much as a peanut-butter sandwich in the same room with them, never mind eat them.

* During the Winter segment in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', Ellie finds herself locked in a cage, with James butchering a corpse on a nearby table, in a room full of bloodstains.

* In ''[[VideoGame/ChzoMythos Seven Days a Skeptic]]'', once the protagonist gains access to [[spoiler:Taylor's]] room, he discovers that it's an abattoir filled with the mutilated parts of the other crewmembers. Not a straight example of this trope, as the other crewmembers haven't been butchered to be eaten: instead, [[spoiler:Taylor]] is using them to construct a new body for [[BigBad John DeFoe]].

* In ''Literature/RedDragon'' it's implied that Franchise/HannibalLecter had one in his basement, as the first officer who entered his basement ended up traumatized and took early retirement.

* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "What's Cookin'," Gaston hangs Mr. Chumley from a meathook in Fred & Erma's restaurant freezer. By the end of the day's business, there's not much left of him (Chumley, that is).

* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Countrycide", Toshiko and Ianto are captured and dumped in a cellar that contains human body parts and later taken to a kitchen filled with body parts and corpses.

* In the second episode of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney,'' after [[spoiler: the three men Kino saved turn out to be slavers and Kino has to kill them all in self-defense]], Kino takes a closer look inside their wagon: it's the second time it's seen, [[OnceMoreWithClarity but this time,]] we get a better idea what the three men meant when they said they had to eat their cargo to survive...

* The Butcher's room in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', the settlement of Andale's [[TownWithADarkSecret Dark Secret]] (besides generations of VillainousIncest) [[spoiler:is that the inhabitants are cannibals. The garden shed behind the Wilsons' house is their larder, with a fridge containing lots of "strange meat," and multiple skeletons from their prior victims.]] There are other locations around the game that seem to suggest a similar location, and "strange meat" can be found throughout the game.

** There is also a downplayed example in ''VideoGame/Fallout1'': the player can stumble upon a fridge full of strange meat in Doc Morbid's basement (Junktown). Said example is downplayed because neither Doc nor his goons are going to eat the flesh, which is sold to the sleazy Iguana Bob as secret ingredient for his Iguana-on-a-Stick.
* During the Winter segment in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', Ellie finds herself locked in a cage, with James butchering a corpse on a nearby table, in a room full of bloodstains.

* In the ''Series/{{Blood Drive}}'' second episode, the infamous Pixie Hollow diner is discovered to be a haven for cannibals by Arthur, where the guests are made into dinner. Apparently the food is quite delicious.

* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Bushwhacked", the Reavers left one of those in a spaceship they, well, bushwhacked.

* In the TV series of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', Dr. Lecter is shown to keep the organs of the people he kills stored in his freezer for later use. An unusually-tidy example.

* On ''Series/{{Reno 911}}'', Officer Weigel discovers a human foot in [[spoiler: her boyfriend's, the Truckee Killer's fridge]].

* On ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', as Rick, Daryl, Glenn, and Bob escape being butchered in Terminus (amidst an increasingly unsubtle string of hints that the people of Terminus were cannibals), they pass through a room with several bloody human torsos hanging from hooks.
* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' subverts it with a chest freezer full of pink flesh. It was actually poached bear meat.

* In ''FreshMeat'', Paulie finds a trapdoor in the kitchen and opens it, and is instantly killed by a BoobyTrap inside, after which his friends discover it leads to an underground butchery where Rina's parents and brother have been ritually killing, slicing up and preparing for consumption the bodies of other human beings.

* One episode of ''Series/CSI'' subverts it with a chest freezer full of pink flesh. It was actually poached bear meat.

* In the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' fanfic "FanFic/{{Cupcakes}}", Pinkie Pie adorns her room with painted skulls, disembodied pony heads and streamers made from dried-up intestines, among other things.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is about humanoid beings that eat humans, so this trope crops up from time to time.

** Kaneki finds himself being forced to work in one during his time as a captive of [[TheSyndicate Aogiri]], given the task of dismantling human corpses for later consumption by the organization's forces. It's just as gruesome and disgusting as one would expect.

* In ''Film/DyingBreed'', Matt and Jack search Rowan's shack in the bush and find a surprisingly neat and clean kitchen where meat is in varying stages of preparation. It is only when they discover [[spoiler:Rebecca's body hanging from a tree out back being bled]] do they realise exactly what they have found.

* Invoked by the Creeper in ''Film/JeepersCreepers''. After he's [[CannibalismSuperpower cannibalized his victims for body parts]], he takes them to a hidden dungeon where he props up the corpses into a depraved piece of artwork by preserving them and [[TrophyRoom mounting them on the walls]]. The protagonist is borderline catatonic after witnessing this.

* In TheRemake of ''Film/TheCrazies'' the hunters had commandeered a giant freezer in a truck stop and turned it into a larder full of corpses.
* One of the oldest film examples is the 1972 Brithorror film ''Film/DeathLine'' (US title: ''Raw Meat''), about cannibals in the London Underground. The other candidate is a 1972 US horror comedy called ''Film/{{The Folks at Red Wolf Inn}}'' (aka ''Terror House'' and other, lesser-known titles).