The Green Inferno (2013) - Eli Roth's based homage to the cannibal genreĪmen to that. Naturo Contro (1988.) Often considered the very last film of the original "cannibal boom"
Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978.)- A typical cannibal movie, but is notable for both being in the public domain and having Stacey Keach as one of the charactersĬannibal Holocaust (1980) - The gold standard of this genre, and one of the most infamous and horrifying movies of all timeĮaten Alive (1980) - A cannibal movie loosely inspired by the Jonestown MassacreĬannibal Ferox (1981) - The second-most infamous and well-known movie after Cannibal Holocaust Last Cannibal World (1977) - The first cannibal movie of Ruggero DeodatoĮmanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) - A porn movie mixed with the cannibal film genre. It was originally released in the US as Sacrifice and was a hit in the grindhouses on 42nd Street. The Man From Deep River (1972) - This was the earliest example of the genre and is basically a retelling of a Western movie where the Indians are replaced with cannibal tribes. The noteworthy entries in the genre include.
Cannibal movies often contained large amounts of graphic violence, sadism, gore, nudity, and often contained rape scenes and unsimulated acts of animal cruelty. They were always set in a Third World country with a tropical jungle setting, and featured cannibalistic primitive indigenous tribes as the main antagonists or as the major plot element. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs both have cannibalism as a major plot element but they aren't cannibal films in the genre definition.Ĭannibal movies were made largely by Italian producers and directors in the 1970's and early 1980's. Just to be clear, just because a film has cannibals in it does not mean it's a cannibal film. The album includes a song titled Eat Me, which was inspired by Armin Meiwes.Since has created a thread on "Rape and Revenge" movies, I figured I'd start one on the other infamous exploitation genre from the 70's and very early 80's that helped create the "extreme cinema" genre as we know it today.the cannibal film. MTV Germany restricted airing the video to after 11:00 p.m. The film was directed and produced by Marian Dora and stars actors Carsten Frank, Victor Brandl and Manoush. The film also won the 2005 Seattle Student Film Festivals audience choice award. The film was nominated for multiple awards at the Montana State University School of Film and Photographys 2005 Tracy Awards, and won the Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Audience Awards. He believes there are about 800 cannibals in Germany. While in prison, Meiwes has since become a vegetarian. They should go for treatment, so it doesnt escalate like it did with me, said Meiwes. Websites dedicated to Meiwes started appearing after his 2002 arrest, with people advertising for willing victims. He added he wants to write a biography with the aim of deterring anyone wanting to follow in his footsteps. Meiwes dismembered and ate the corpse over the next ten months, storing body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consuming up to 20 kilograms (44 lb) of the flesh. He then chopped the penis up into chunks and fed it to his dog.Īccording to court officials who saw the video (which has not been made public), Brandes may already have been too weakened from blood loss to eat any of his penis.īrandes continued to drift in and out of consciousness before finally collapsing again.Īfter long hesitation and prayer, Meiwes killed Brandes by stabbing him in the throat, after which he hung the body on a meat hook. Meiwes then fried the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic he then fried it with some of Brandess fat, but by then it was too burnt to be consumed. This did not work, and ultimately, Meiwes used a knife to remove it.īrandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw but could not, because it was too tough and, as he put it, chewy. Many other people responded to the advertisement but backed out Meiwes did not attempt to force them to do anything against their will.īrandes initially insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off.
Meiwess post stated that he was looking for a normally-built 18- to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed.īernd Jrgen Armando Brandes, an engineer from Berlin, answered the advertisement in March 2001. He had two older half-brothers from his fathers previous relationship to another woman. In a retrial May 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victims severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh.