Director: Alexandre Carrière
Starting over rarely comes easy, but for the heroine of A Chef's Deadly Revenge, a fresh start in a new town is only the beginning of a much more dangerous ordeal.
What is A Chef's Deadly Revenge about?
After leaving an abusive relationship behind, a woman relocates and pours everything into opening her own gourmet restaurant, hoping the new venture will finally give her stability. That hope is short-lived once a jealous, obsessive man fixates on her, subjecting her to escalating harassment that turns her carefully built new life into a source of constant fear. What follows is a tense cat-and-mouse standoff as she tries to protect the restaurant, her staff, and herself while the threat around her grows harder to ignore or outrun. The film builds its suspense through everyday spaces — a busy kitchen, a quiet parking lot, a locked-up dining room after hours — turning familiar settings into places where danger can appear at any moment.
Cast & crew
Kathryn Kohut leads the cast as the restaurateur at the center of the story, joined by Tomas Chovanec, Justin Nurse, Tim Myles, Chelsea Muirhead, Bridget Wareham, Anshuman Pandey, and Geoff Adams, under the direction of Alexandre Carrière.
Context & significance
A Chef's Deadly Revenge is a 2024 Canadian thriller that runs 87 minutes, keeping its pacing tight and its focus narrow on the escalating standoff between the two leads. The restaurant-industry backdrop gives the thriller a distinct texture, using the pressure and long hours of food-service work as another layer of stress the protagonist has to manage while also fighting for her safety. Its short runtime keeps the plot moving briskly, favoring a steady build of dread over a slow-burn structure, which suits the genre's focus on escalating personal danger.
Where & how to watch
A Chef's Deadly Revenge streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the title page itself can be browsed without signing in. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, and the platform's Farsi interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to navigate straight to playback.