At the end as he faces execution, he proclaims: “I killed my father, I ate human flesh and I quiver with joy.” Time Out says “The story is about the human capacity of destruction and a rebellion against the social prerequisites implied against it.” Slave of the Cannibal God (1972) Cannibalism is rampant in this 70s Italian horror film.ĭistinct from the rest of the early 1970s Italian cannibal movies by the fact that the producers were somehow able to snag two famous American actors-Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach-the plot involves a girl and her brother flying to New Guinea to investigate why her husband disappeared in the jungle there. Etna joins a band of murderous cannibals. In that segment, a man who wanders amid the volcanic wastelands around Mt. Released in Italy as Pigsty, this film unravels two related stories, only one of which involves cannibalism. Porcile (1969) Three girls from a cannibal tribe wander around a volcano in Porcile. When a lawyer comes to investigate conditions at the mansion, he is murdered and dumped in the basement, where he is eaten by the deadly denizens there, for apparently there are far more than three family members suffering from this genetic disease. The title refers to one of the three children, a girl in her late teens who eats bugs and moves with the grace of a spider. as the caretaker of three siblings in a rotting mansion who all share the same genetic disease that makes them regress into animal primitivism once they reach puberty. The director, Herschell Gordon Lewis, would go on to make several other zero-budget slasher films, earning himself the moniker “The Godfather of Gore.” Spider Baby (1968) Spider Baby is described as “perversely delightful” and quite funny.Ī superbly odd black comedy horror, Spider Baby stars Lon Chaney, Jr. Although the special effects are horrible and the “blood” looks like bright red paint, the film is still nearly impossible to watch due to its exceeding violence.
He gathers the items for his human stew one at a time-by chopping off a woman’s limbs while she bathes by yanking a woman’s tongue right out of her mouth and by ripping a woman’s brains right out her skull on a beach late at night. In this exceedingly gruesome film that is widely considered the “first slasher movie,” a crazed Egyptian caterer named Fuad Ramses prepares a feast made of human flesh that is intended to resurrect the Egyptian goddess Ishtar. Blood Feast (1963) Blood Feast is considered one of the very first slasher films. The list will also include movies that simply feature acts of cannibalism but aren’t explicitly about cannibals. Here is a survey of that movement, the movies that pre-dated and a few that came after it. This lead to what is called the “Golden Age” of cannibal films, if you can call it that, or the “Italian cannibal boom” and many of these movies went on to become cult classics. Yet, as many horror fans know, there was a disturbing trend in the mid to late 1970s and early 1980s spawned by Italian filmmakers like Ruggero Deodato who made several films in the cannibal genre. Cannibalism is off limits in modern popular culture. In fact, a human eating another human on camera is one of the most gruesome acts of violence one can inflict - and many modern filmmakers won’t depict it directly. Cannibal movies are a particularly taboo subgenre of horror cinema.
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