Terreur cannibale (1981)

Director:

Alain Deruelle

Writers:

Julio Pérez Tabernero (writer)
H.L. Rostaine (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Gut Munching Gore Hounds!

Plot:

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Jungle | House | Cannibal | Tribe

Cast

Silvia Solar	...	Madame Danville (as Sylvia Solar)
Gérard Lemaire
Pamela Stanford	...	Manuela
Olivier Mathot	...	Monsieur Danville
Burt Altman
Stan Hamilton
Antoine Fontaine		(as Tony Fontaine)
Antonio Mayans		(as Antony Mayans)
Michel Laury
Annabelle	...	Laurence Danville
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mariam Camacho
Antonio Jover
Amparo Marsilla
Montserrat Salvador
Chris Yebenes

Also Known As:

Cannibal Terror (Europe: English title)
Terror caníbal (Spain)
O tromos ton kannivalon (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Spain | France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:18 (re-rating: 2005) (uncut) | USA:Not Rated | UK:18 (re-rating: 2003) (uncut) | Norway:(Banned) (1984-2005) | UK:(Banned) (1984-2001) | Iceland:(Banned)

Filming Locations:

Benidorm, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Eurociné

Trivia:

Was at one point on the UK Government's 'video nasty' list, purely as it features the word 'cannibal' in its title, which led to it being seen as on the same levels of violence as Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Apocalypse domani (1980), and Cannibal ferox (1981), but it is nowhere near as graphically violent.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film cars can be seen driving past on a road less than 50 meters from the cannibals' supposedly remote village.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Mondo cannibale (1980)

French Cannibals...

Well, what else can you say about this movie other than it sucked royally. I don't normally use such mediocre words to describe a movie but nothing else could come to mind. The acting was bad, the script was bad, the story was bad, the gore was disgusting (but still bad), and the cannibals take the cake as being the worst looking I have ever seen. It looks like a bunch of French guys got together and decided to put on make up and pretend to be cannibals... wait a second!

Anyway, the story is about 3 crooks who kidnap a little girl and demand a ransom. When the heist fall apart they escape out to the jungle (which looks like a forest) and take refuge with a Spanish couple. When one of the crooks rapes the Spanish wife, the husband leads the crooks to the cannibals and now there is Hell to pay... yeah, right.

I can't help my sarcasm with this movie. It was just dreadful. I read other reviews that say something about Jess Franco having something to do with this movie. Man, if that's true he must have come to a real low point in his career.

This movie is strictly for people that have to see all of the cannibal films. If you aren't into that sort of thing, stay far FAR away from this train wreck. Even I who love the genre struggled to sit through this. 2/10