History Main / CannibalLarder

* Similarly, Jeffrey Dahmer was found to have an entire torso and bags of human organs in his freezer upon his arrest, as well as a "fucking head" in his fridge that one unfortunate officer found.

* Several of Grimm's fairy tales also features a female protagonist discovering that her new husband has a penchant for human flesh via stumbling on such a larder.

* In the finale of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' Part 1, Denji nullifies [[spoiler:Makima]]'s ResurrectiveImmortality by cutting their corpses into pieces, refrigerating them in tupperware containers, and EatingTheEnemy over the course of several weeks.

* In the finale of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' Part 1, Denji nullifies [[spoiler:Makima]]'s ResurrectiveImmortality by filling his fridge with their cut up corpse and EatingTheEnemy over the course of several weeks.

* The very last episode of ''Series/LostTapes'' has such a scene, set deep underneath New York in one of the city's many uncharted subterranean tunnels, featuring numerous missing persons wrapped up in plastic after having been asphyxiated. More of a ToServeMan example than literal cannibalism, since the culprits [[TheReptilians aren't actually human]].

* In ''Literature/{{Lady of the Lake|Sapkowski}}'', while travelling between worlds, Ciri is attacked by a lecherous old man called Gramps. After killing him, Ciri enters his house, finds the mutilated corpse of a child clearly cut up for consumption and realises she would have suffered the same fate had the guy not tried to rape her first instead of merely killing her.

* In ''Film/TheColony'', Briggs's scouting party walk right into a CannibalLarder while investigating what caused Colony 5 to lose radio contact. Unfortunately for them, the cannibals are actually ''in'' the Larder at the time, butchering and snacking on their victims.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' of all things has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef [[CruellaToAnimals hacking up seafood while gleefully singing]] a gruesome little [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 ditty]] about it. Sebastian reacts exactly how you'd react to seeing a room full of butchered human corpses.

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* Two player characters in an episode of ''WebVideo/PuffinForest'' mistakenly think that they have found a cannibal larder when they enter a kitchen in a bad guy's fortress with pieces of dead bodies stuffed everywhere. Actually what had happened was that two other players characters had hidden in the kitchen and killed all of the guards that entered and then did their best to hide the bodies.

* In ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'', while travelling between worlds, Ciri is attacked by a lecherous old man called Gramps. After killing him, Ciri enters his house, finds the mutilated corpse of a child clearly cut up for consumption and realises she would have suffered the same fate had the guy not tried to rape her first instead of merely killing her.

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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: Kiss Play'': EDC Kiss Players who have failed are apparently stuffed into [[PeopleJars tubes somewhere below the base]]. Probably all of them were stripped naked first; Kiss Player Xiao Xiao woke in one such tube. When she looked around, the surrounding tubes contained partially eaten remains of other young women. Partially eaten by the phallic-tongued evil robots called Legion. One such was in Xiao Xiao's tube and ready to chow down.

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

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': When Judge Death first met the Sisters of Death, he was in awe of their "temple of death", meaning a killing lair with freshly dismembered human corpses used for human sacrifice and cannibalism by the Sisters.

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

* In ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'', the Hunters' lair is full of half-eaten body parts, including scraps of skin that the human hero drapes over himself to disguise his scent.

* In ''Film/DeepRising'', the heroes at one point come across the creature's feeding grounds in the bowels of the ship. There are hundreds of gory, skeletal remains strewn across the giant storage room. The haunting final screams of the people can be heard as the camera pans over them. Earlier in the film, some of the passengers' excreted corpses are found in a corridor at the bottom of the elevator.

* In ''Film/TheColony'', Briggs's scouting party walk right into a CannibalLarder while investigating what caused Colony 5 to lose radio contact. Unfortunately for them, the cannibals are actually ''in'' the Larder at the time, butchering and snacking on their victims.

* In ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}: Emerald Hell'', the alligators of the swamps around Enigma, Georgia pull their human victims unto the muck below the water, drowning them and letting them rot to soften. The Ferris brothers are introduced by having a woman killed by a gator [[spoiler: and in the end are sent to the same fate.]] At one time, Hellboy himself is nearly done in this way.
* In ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'', while travelling between worlds, Ciri is attacked by a lecherous old man called Gramps. After killing him, Ciri enters his house, finds the mutilated corpse of a child clearly cut up for consumption and realises she would have suffered the same fate had the guy not tried to rape her first instead of merely killing her.

* 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 last season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter is investigating a suspect's house and comes across a fridge full of tupperware containers neatly labelled as various body parts.
* 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/{{Grimm}}'' features a race of wendigo who keep their leftovers hidden somewhere under their homes. Nick falls into a crawlspace filled with gnawed bones and scraps of decaying flesh.
* The very last episode of ''Series/LostTapes'' has such a scene, set deep underneath New York in one of the city's many uncharted subterranean tunnels, featuring numerous missing persons wrapped up in plastic after having been asphyxiated. More of a ToServeMan example than literal cannibalism, since the culprits [[TheReptilians aren't actually human]].

* One illustration in the rulebook for the ''Underground'' [=RPG=] shows an unlucky teenager who's at work in the freezer at a fast food restaurant, and getting creeped out by the hanging meat. One of this particular game's CrapsackWorld features is a growing fad for cannibal fast food.

* 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 the Spring chapter of ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'', [[spoiler:Artyom and the Rangers find themselves trapped in the Yamantau Bunker with a horrifying CannibalClan formed by the staff of the facility who descended into cannibalism when food stores ran short. The ''entire'' bunker is festooned with grotesque human remains in various states of "preparation"; pickled heads in jars, dressed-out bodies hanging from meat hooks, flayed flesh pinned to walls, cages ''packed'' with desiccated, gnawed-upon corpses, and everything in between.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': King Shark has human bodies hanging up in his hotel room like sides of beef in a butcher shop.

** The basement of the marked men guard outpost in the ''Lonesome Road'' add-on for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is full of butchered human corpses.

* 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]].

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', [[spoiler: the protagonists discover where the {{wendigo}}es have been storing their victims. This includes the Flamethrower Guy and anyone who [[AnyoneCanDie optionally died]].]]
* In the Spring chapter of ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'', [[spoiler: Artyom and the Rangers find themselves trapped in the Yamantau Bunker with a horrifying CannibalClan formed by the staff of the facility who descended into cannibalism when food stores ran short. The ''entire'' bunker is festooned with grotesque human remains in various states of "preparation"; pickled heads in jars, dressed-out bodies hanging from meat hooks, flayed flesh pinned to walls, cages ''packed'' with desiccated, gnawed-upon corpses, and everything in between.]]

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* ''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.]]
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* Similarly, Jeffrey Dahmer was found to have an entire torso and bags of human organs in his freezer upon his arrest.
* According to Spannish records, the Aztec had butcher shops to process people (sacrificial victims) much like sheep or cows. There is naturally some controversy about this; while cannibalism might have been a thing in ancient mesoamerican peoples, isotope studies show that most Aztec would rather eat deer or turkey over other humans, and there is no evidence of specialised butcher shops for that matter.

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* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'': Towards a later part of 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.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Disenchantment'', Hansel and Gretel are revealed to be the real cannibals. Shortly after the reveal, we see human heads hanging from the ceiling apparently to dry and cure alongside unidentified "meat", various candies and desserts made of human flesh, and at one point mummified corpses in cotton candy.

* When police broke into the farmhouse of serial killer Ed Gein, who would serve as inspiration for ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' and other horror stories, they found a terrifying array of human remains. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein#Crimes See for yourself]] over at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.