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- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger. Horror (1h 23m) 7.4 on IMDb — 89% on RT. Tobe Hooper's classic horror film has been referred to by Quentin Tarantino as a "perfect movie."
- Soylent Green (1973) Directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young. Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi (1h 37m) 7.0 on IMDb — 70% on RT.
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, John Steadman. Horror, Thriller (1h 30m) 6.3 on IMDb — 67% on RT.
- Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen. Adventure, Horror (1h 35m) 5.8 on IMDb — 67% on RT.
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Blood Feast
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. 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 out a woman’s brains through her skull on a beach late at night. Although the special effects are h...
Spider Baby
A superbly odd black comedy horror, Spider Babystars Lon Chaney, Jr. 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 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. 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...
Pigsty
Released in Italy as Porcile, this film unravels two related stories, only one of which involves cannibalism. In that segment, a man who wanders amid the volcanic wastelands around Mt. Etna joins a band of murderous cannibals. At the end as he faces execution, he proclaims: “I killed my father, I ate human flesh and I quiver with joy.” Time Outsays “The story is about the human capacity of destruction and a rebellion against the social prerequisites implied against it.”
The Silence of the Lambs
This psychological horror movie is more of a violent murder mystery/detective film than a cannibal movie, but it does feature a character named “Hannibal the Cannibal” played by Anthony Hopkins (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role). Hannibal is an incarcerated serial killer who assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) with the investigation into a serial killer and a senator’s missing daughter. The story gets quite a bit darker in the prequel Hannibal Rising (2007...
Ravenous
In a script that was said to be inspired by the real-life 19th-century misadventures of the Donner Party in California and Alferd Packer in Colorado—both of which involved American explorers getting trapped in freezing conditions that force them to turn to cannibalism—Ravenous is a Western horror film set in California in the 1840s. It sees rescue workers whose mission is interrupted by a psychotic cannibal. Roger Ebertwrites: “Of course a vampire is simply a cannibal with good table manners,...
The Green Inferno
Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno recreates the transgressive cannibal movies of decades prior through the lens of Roth’s own dark sense of humor. The movie is about a group of college-aged activists whose plane crashes while on their way out of the Amazon rainforest after a protest. The survivors of the crash are abducted by a tribe that practices cannibalism, leading to scenes that are both ridiculous and gross at the same time.
Fires on the Plain (1959) this horrifying movie from Japandepicts the violence of war (including cannibalism).Death Line (1972) the London subway system is terrorized by a cannibal serial killer in this 70sBritish horror movie.Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) this German movie is based on real serial killerand cannibal Fritz Haarmann. Fritz killed and possibly ate dozens of boys and men.- Jim Goad
- Ravenous. “Eat to live. Don’t live to eat.” Easier said than done, am I right? Especially when you discover that the consummation of human flesh can increase your natural abilities to supernatural heights.
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) There are more than a few iconic horror films that may have felt unassuming on release but grew into cinematic legends over the years.
- Raw (2016) Cannibal-Coming-of-Age is a genre we didn’t know we wanted but here we are. Then again, apart from eating other people, the runner up for horrible bodily betrayals is definitely puberty.
- Parents (1989) Being a child and thinking your parents are strange is something most of us can relate to. When you’re little your parents may as well be aliens because they’re so different from you that they must be from another planet.
19 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Wrong Turn. 2003 1h 24m R. 6.1 (132K) Rate. 32 Metascore. Chris and a group of five friends are left stranded deep in the middle of the woods after their cars collide. As they venture deeper into the woods, they face an uncertain and bloodcurdling fate.
Apr 18, 2024 · IndieWire ranks the 10 best cannibal films, from classics like 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' to recent gems like 'Raw'. Find out which movies make you hungry for human flesh.
- Wilson Chapman
Aug 29, 2022 · Published Aug 29, 2022. Movies that won't make you hungry. Few topics prevalent in horror movies are as consistently squirm-inducing as cannibalism. Over decades of horror films, one constant...
Oct 2, 2013 · Delicatessen (1991) After radiation and out-of-control incest, filmmakers would have you believe there’s no more common cause of movie cannibalism than apocalyptic dystopias. After all, when...
