CANNIBALS Archive

  • 030/08/2013

    T Is For… The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – 1986 / Director: Tobe Hooper

    You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family. Texas Chainsaw Not-Seen-In-3D (2013) was a mechanised piece of…

  • 003/07/2013

    The Forest – 1982 / Director: Donald M. Jones

    Though The Forest was released around the heyday of the Slasher Boon of the early ‘80s, this film is barely a slasher, much less a scary one. Nevertheless, it is…

  • 008/01/2013

    Devil Hunter – 1980 / Director: Jess Franco

    Damn! Shit! What a fuckin’ awful place. Flowers? Shit! Dammit, dammit, dammit! This wild vegetation gives me the creeps! It’s not, perhaps, a good sign when this piece of cinematic…

  • 031/10/2012

    Frightmare – 1974 / Director: Pete Walker

    There’s quite a bit of blood round ‘ere. There was a time in the 1970s (the era of Watergate, the Vietnam war, a stagnating economy, political and social unrest) when…

  • 016/07/2012

    Cannibal Ferox – 1981 / Director : Umberto Lenzi

    Umberto Lenzi may have kickstarted the shortlived and exceedingly grubby little Italian cannibal subgenre with his picturesque Man From Deep River in 1972 but he was also responsible for bringing…

  • 012/04/2012

    Cannibal Apocalypse – 1980 / Director: Antonio Margheriti

    The odds were heavily stacked against Antonio Margheriti’s grossly misrepresented Cannibal Apocalypse right from the outset. The film’s anglicized and unimaginative title  is criminally misleading and deceptively exploitative. It hints…

  • 007/03/2012

    Eaten Alive (Mangiati vivi!) – 1980/ Director: Umberto Lenzi

    Football was invented in 1876 in England, and we still haven’t got over the fact  that other countries are better at it than us. Every time a tournament comes along,…

  • 006/03/2012

    The Man From Deep River – 1972 / Director: Umberto Lenzi

    Lenzi’s goat-killing, widow-fucking epic has the dubious honour of kick-starting the whole disreputable but irresistible Italian cannibal film cycle. Already a capable peplum and giallo director, he was influenced by…

  • 108/02/2012

    Cannibal Terror – 1981 / Director: Alain Deruelle

    The unmistakable stench of Jess Franco hovers over Cannibal Terror like a blocked drain. Unbelievably, however, the producers found a director just as inept in Alain Deruelle. The man responsible…

  • 001/02/2012

    Jungle Holocaust (Ultimo mondo cannibale) -1977 / Director: Ruggero Deodato

    See! A man used as a human yo-yo. See! Said man having his penis fondled by cannibals. See! A hostess from Sale of the Century being raped and eaten. See!…

  • 023/01/2012

    Zombie Holocaust – 1980 / Director: Marino Girolami

    With it’s oh so lurid title  and generic, high concept promise of the best of both worlds, Marino Giromlami’s Zombie Holocaust should, by rights, really be a bit of a…

  • 128/09/2011

    Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals – 1977 / Director: Joe D’Amato

    Everyone knows that I hated Emmanuelle (1974, dir. Just Jaeckin). Instead of falling for the French eroticism, I found the film to be one long, overblown account of a young…