I remember growing up I saw the beginning of this movie that scared me. It began with a couple of dudes peeing in like rubble and some cannibal like dude bites the face off of one of the dudes. Then the Cannibal kidnaps a police officer and her senior agent. It was like a post-apocalyptic setting almost.
Some of the sounds are really unique sounding and they have a lot of atmosphere. It seems like some synths were used but I don't know for sure. If they were do any of you happen to know what kind of synths?
Listen to this if you're curious what I mean, it sounds bizarre but amazing:
https://reddit.com/link/q8ntw4/video/1sik5ksm3mt71/player
I don't know if that is real strings (sounds like it, but they also sound weird to me/mixed strange) and also the bass, is very common for these soundtracks. I've heard synth bass for sure on some of these soundtracks. Not sure about this one though. Maybe this wasn't the best example. Ha. But still a beautiful track to share.
Honestly, zombies are stagnant by now, but the idea of sadistic rapist cannibals who utter profanities and act like psychopathic tribesmen for the most carnal, abhorrent instincts? This has been needed for a long time, a melding of sex with violence as the depravity for a threat to properly take hold, but it's been avoided because of controversy - audiences just aren't ready for the extreme cinema needed to shock in a way they've since become numb.
As an adaptation of chaos with a strain to zombies I'd love to see more, this film is perfectly executed - it doesn't need a profound plot or incisive message. The kind of monster depicted is like a serial killer, it's not content with only murder or consuming you; society is also diminished for any protection from these worst instincts imaginable.
We are indifferent to zombies as popular icon nowadays in the sense of Frankenstein not being scary, films more showing them as a negligible background concern and all the ways to kick their ass. At large, we are numb to even creepy serial killers as slasher cliches, but I feel this is something to challenge that - removing any boundaries of the threat so their danger is different to need a new perspective for adjustment. As another angle on zombies, and from a clear source material, this film is brilliant - it's moving the rules and territory of a redundant genre.
This has been something I've been searching for on and off for quite a while now.
The trailer played at my local independent movie theatre and it will occasionally re-enter my mind, but I can't seem to find anything on it.
The trailer involved a very ugly man. I seem to remember him having not a lot of hair on his head, and he wore what I can only describe as "old man glasses". He really likes this girl, in more ways then one, and has seductively sadistic daydreams of eating her. I remember her being blonde. I also seem to remember the cannibal living with an older woman, possibly his mother. The trailer had subtitles, and the movie wasn't in English. I'm thinking it was German, or something akin to that. The film also looked like it had been made recently.
I remember the opening of the trailer being two people, one of them I believe to be the woman that the cannibal dreams of, walking to a bar. They sit down and talk, and this is when the trailer pans over, and we are introduced to the cannibal. The rest of the trailer is told from his perspective. The entire trailer had a very dreamlike feel to it.
I feel like there was a lot of discussion or parallels relating to a butchery? Like the cannibal saw the woman as a literal piece of meat. There's one shot I have stuck in my head where the woman is cowering in fear on the ground, in what looks like a kitchen, and this is where the meat comparison became clear to the viewer.
I also remember the poster for the movie having a red background with yellow text.
If anybody has any incite on this otherwise very niche film, please let me know. It's been bugging me for quite some time. I'm not quite sure if I'd actually watch this movie, but sometimes I think about it and the fact that I can't pinpoint at least the name of it annoys me.
Any and all input is very appreciated.
Hey there. There’s a movie that was shown at a film festival about a elderly couple, in which the man ends up eating his wife, in a fictional documentary format. She’s content with it, since she sees her husband finally eat, since he lost his appetite
Hi all and thank you for the help in advance.
For context, I saw this movie on an imgur movie post a few years ago. It is a black (comedy?) featuring a German/Swiss (?) cannibal family living near some train tracks underground.
The cover of the film is a man making sausage. Hope this oddly specific but scant description helps!
EDIT: Nevermind! I found it. It's Ultimo Mondo Cannabile.
I remember a video being posted here of a scene from a cannibal film. It was probably from the 70s and probably Italian. I think it's from 70s because I remember noticing that it was older than Cannibal Holocaust, which is from 1980. I could be making that part up.
The scene took place in a jungle where someone's torso was cut open by cannibals, then it was completely hollowed out and filled with hot stones or rocks. I know that could be a lot of things, but the hollowed torso being filled with stones is the only unique part I remember. I also feel like it went further than most Italian cannibal films with that long ass scene of the entrails being removed up close.
Some people, especially those interested in extreme cinema or gorehounds, might be familiar with the cult classic ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ by Ruggero Deodato. When stumbling upon this film during my quest for the darker side of film, I was deeply impressed by its cynical and aggressive nature. What was unknown to me at the time is that it was part of a short-lived exploitation subgenre focussed around stone-age native cannibals and Western people that meet them also known as the ‘Cannibal Boom’ or ‘Cannibal Exploitation’.
About two dozen titles where made in the subgenre starting with ‘Man from the Deep River’ and ‘Lost Cannibal World’ which laid the blueprints for the genre. Other notable titles include ‘Eaten Alive!’, ‘Cannibal Ferox’ or ‘Zombie Holocaust’ and of course ‘Cannibal Holocaust’. Director Eli Roth made a 21st century tribute to the genre with ‘The Green Inferno’. Unfortunately I have not been able to track all of them down.
Major themes include the relation between Western and native peoples, thrills like violence and sex, and an obsession with ‘savagery’ and foreign rituals. Many of these come from the ‘Mondo Film’ genre, which mostly consisted of documentaries depicting the exotic and savage but were often staged. ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ is a clear riff on the Mondo filmmakers and their lack of ethics.
The subgenre Cannibal Exploitation itself is most notable today for its seeming lack of ethics: regularly the films portray extreme violence, often sexual like rape and castration, is racist in its portrayal of native peoples and many of the films contain real animal killings. It also doesn’t help that most of the films are not exactly well-made, terribly acted and often badly overdubbed.
However, there are a few titles that have a misanthropic and nihilistic staying power, namely the above ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ and ‘Cannibal Ferox’ to a degree. But for the most part the only value is that films made in the genre can be just plain fun. Many of the choices made are bizarre (mixing of genres that should never be mixed), acting and dialogue can be hilarious, and it is clear that the filmmakers often had a lot of freedom. Therefore the Cannibal Exploitation tends to have a surprising entertainment value, and also a lot of both male and female nudity if that’s your thing.
I do have a couple of questions here. How do we deal with the ethics or lack thereof of the Cannibal Exploitation films?
How do you see the legacy of the Cannibal Exploitation
... keep reading on reddit ➡I remember watching a Youtube video a year or two ago that reviewed a film that follows a protagonist who wanders into a seemingly abandoned town but then gets lured into a bunker/house by a little boy. The people in the town have become crazy cannibals and or have become possessed and get distracted by sounds (Little boy leads a person away from the main character with sounds). I believe there were 2 scenes that stood out, one being the 3 main characters hiding in a classroom as the large zombie-like teacher searched for them and the other scene showing someone willingly becoming a cannibal.
Let me know if any of these things pop out, but I cannot remember the name of the film for the life of me.
I think another short is about some idiot detectives trying to solve a murder when the killer is right there and they don't see it at all. All the movies are super cheesy.
