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Cannibal Film
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From the mid 1970s until around the mid 1980s, a slew of chiefly Italian Exploitation Films were made that are known as cannibal films, and are considered to form one of the most extreme subgenres of horror cinema. The premise for every film involves civilized, predominantly white protagonists venturing into remote South American/Asian jungles and encountering tribes of dark-skinned human-eaters. The tropes for these films are quite consistent, possibly because most of the films essentially ripped off one of three cannibal films that enjoyed financial success. These tropes include: The triumph of the white man. This triumph can come in the form of successfully escaping the jungle or establishing a positive relationship with the savages, using gizmos and measured hand gestures. Once contact has been established between the outsiders and the natives, always because the outsiders have been captured through an act of stupidity, the outsiders are forced to witness an assortment of rituals conducted by the natives, all of which involve blood and something or someone being cut open. The lucky victim is generally not of any specific type; human victims, whether male or female, civilized or savage, have all gone under the spear in these films. These sequences will often also include the protagonist/s suffering humiliating subjugation by the natives. The civilized characters can be distinguished from one another, on a purely visual level. The savages are a collective mentality and rarely is one elevated to any position of significance in the film (the most notable exception would be Me Me Lai's character in Last Cannibal World). Civilized non-white characters are usually the first to die, and never in a pleasant fashion. Cannibals sympathetic to the protagonists live long enough to get them out of danger before falling prey to their vengeful fellows. Civilized women are typically sleazy, whiny bimbos who often serve as Ms. Fanservice (cannibal films do not stray far from standard horror). If they do have an attitude, it can be solved with a good slap. Interracial relations between a native and one of the protagonists. Typically the native is female, but either way the sex is rarely consensual. Characters played by Ivan Rassimov and Me Me Lai. They appeared in three films in the genre, more than any other actor. Me Me Lai's characters were native women with, um, breast implants. Sadly, almost every cannibal film made in this period features animal cruelty either from stock footage or, even worse, in scenes created for the film. This aspect of the films both cements their infamy as a subgenre and their notoriety as going further down the path of moral decadence than most other horror films. Other common tropes of cannibal films: Acceptable Targets Beat Still, My Heart Bloodier and Gorier B-Movie Captured by Cannibals Chased by Angry Natives Dead Guy on Display Decapitation Presentation Enemy to All Living Things Exploitation Film Extreme Mêlée Revenge Fantastic Racism Fate Worse than Death Genocide Backfire Gorn: Implicit in the genre Groin Attack Horror Films Human Sacrifice Made of Plasticine Mayincatec: Anthropologist Marvin Harris, and author of the 1977 book: Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins. According to Harris, the Aztec economy would not support feeding them as slaves and the columns of prisoners were "marching meat". National Geographic Nudity No Such Thing as Bad Publicity Revenge Rape and Revenge Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Tribal Carry Values Dissonance Virgin Sacrifice Western Terrorists The most well-known and successful of these films was Cannibal Holocaust in 1980. It is also infamous for scenes of gratuitous animal death, among other things. Because of the infamy of this movie, cannibal films were among the many horror and exploitation films banned by the UK as Video Nasties. Not to be confused with Cannibal Tribe, the general trope about savage tribes which kill and eat outsiders. |
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Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, 1989, is a satire of this kind of film that is better than it sounds. It had to be billed as Piranha Women etc etc in the UK to avoid association with the genre (since cannibal films in general were immediately labeled as Video Nasties even when they didn't get as disturbing as Cannibal Holocaust). | |
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The Green Inferno, an much more faithful Genre Throwback (just look at the title!) by Eli Roth. Features a tribe never filmed before, whose introduction to movies was Cannibal Holocaust - they agreed to filming after deciding that it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. | |
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Cannibal Holocaust, 1980 — Upon the film's release, the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors murdered for the camera. Their names were cleared when they arranged for the "dead" actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast appropriated their mockumentary style from Cannibal Holocaust. | |
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Cannibal Ferox, 1981 — The natives capture two men who previously exploited them, along with three college students who have fallen in with them. The natives humiliate and kill all but one of them in slow, ritualistic fashion, hence the official & alternative movie title: Make Them Die Slowly. | |
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