Chef Julian Slowik is the main antagonist of the black comedy/thriller 2022 film The Menu. He is the head chef of highly-acclaimed restaurant Hawthorne.
He was portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, who also voiced Rameses in The Prince of Egypt.
His Evil Rankings[]
What Makes Him Heinous[]
- Plans to kill his staff and customers in a mass murder-suicide out of vengeance for his misery.
- While many of them, especially Tyler Ledford, deserved it, others were killed for very petty reasons, such as George Lopez simply because Slowik didn't like one of his movies and Lopez's assistant Felicity being killed for simply being wealthy enough to have not had student loans.
- His mother was also present and would perish in the murder-suicide, with no reason ever being given for why she was present.
- Punishes a sous chef, Katherene Keller, for resisting his advances, though he comes to regret it.
- Causes sous chef, Jeremy Louden, to kill himself in front of the guests.
- Kills his angel investor, Doug Verrick, by drowning him in front of all his guests. His reasoning was quite petty as part of it was due to the fact that Verrick would insist on substitutions when Slowik hates substitutions in his restaurant.
- While Tyler is a psychopathic Hate Sink, especially for screwing over Margot, Julian takes a crueller approach in psychologically abusing him into committing suicide after humiliating him by making him cook the next dish which fails miserably.
- His plan comes to a success by burning himself in flames along with his staff and customers.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is insanely tragic as his life was miserable; he was forced to stab his own father when he was attempting to strangle his mother to death. It's also heavily implied that him becoming a chef led to his wife leaving him and taking their child with her. It eventually reached the point where he was truly unhappy with his profession.
- He develops a kinship with Margot due to them both being social workers and decides to spare her when she rekindles his love for cooking by making her a cheeseburger.
- His care even goes as far as to being utterly disgusted at Tyler for setting up Margot to be killed on the menu, hence why he abused him for it.
- He expresses remorse for sexually assaulting Katherine Keller.
External Links[]
- Chef Julian Slowik on the Villains Wiki