Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.
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Norman Hopper
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Elizabeth Turner | ... |
Jane Hopper
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Giovanni Lombardo Radice | ... |
Charlie Bukowski
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Cinzia De Carolis | ... |
Mary
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Tom Thompson
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Wallace Wilkinson | ... |
Captain McCoy
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Ramiro Oliveros | ... |
Dr. Phil Mendez
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John Geroson | ... |
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May Heatherly | ... |
Nurse Helen
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Ronnie Sanders | ... |
Orderly
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Vic Perkins | ... |
Biker
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Jere Beery | ... |
Biker Leader
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Joan Riordan | ... |
Aunt Tina
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Brunette Jogger
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Lonnie R. Smith Jr. | ... |
Biker
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It starts off in Vietnam where John Saxon gets bitten by P.O.W. John Morghen who has been infected with some sort of cannibal virus. A few decades later in Atlanta, Georgia, Saxon wakes up from a nightmare flashback of what actually happened back in 'Nam. Saxon then receives a call from Morghen asking him if he wants to go out for a drink but Saxon refuses remembering the incident in 'Nam. Morghen has turned into a cannibal and is soon on the run after biting into a woman's neck. He barricades himself in a department store and shoots some folks with a shotgun. The cannibal virus spreads and soon Saxon joins veterans Morghen and Tony King along with some others to wreak some havoc. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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POW's in Vietnam...starved in captivity...released with a taste for human flesh. See more »Genres:
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Release Date:
9 August 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cannibal Apocalypse See more »Company Credits
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Edmondo Amati presents, José Frade Producciones Cinematográficas S.A., New Fida See more »
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Bobby: [looks to his teenage sister Mary] Will they look for Aunt Tina?
[chews on a piece of Tina's flesh]
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The film watched by Bukowski on the cinema is Nur drei kamen durch (1979) which starred May Heatherly, who plays the role of the infected nurse Helen. See more »Goofs
The female police officer is picked up from a downtown police station and is being transported by ambulance (with police escort) to hospital. When they leave the station, it is still light out. She dies in the ambulance and the next shot shows it completely dark outside, indicating considerable time lapse. It would not take that long for a speeding ambulance with police escort to travel from one downtown building to another. See more »Quotes
[last lines]Bobby: [looks to his teenage sister Mary] Will they look for Aunt Tina?
[chews on a piece of Tina's flesh]
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A cannibal-movie that actually tries and succeeds to be different. This movie transcends the cannibal genre and becomes something else. You'll have to get past the silly & inept Vietnam opening-scene, but then this movie turns into an urban tale of virus-outbreak. A cannibal-virus, that is. There's some violence, there's some drama, there's some nudity, there's some very nice gore and there are four cannibal-fugitives on the run. Awesome mixture that works! Add to that a satisfying ending, and we've got a hit! A hit with John Saxon in it, no less. "Cannibal Apocalypse" indeed feels, at times, a bit like Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" (1978), but the one movie that kept coming to my mind was David Cronenberg's "Rabid" (1977). So if you're tired of all those "half naked cannibals eating human flesh and slaughtering animals in the jungle"-flicks, and if Umberto Lenzi's "Nightmare City" (1980) just made you laugh instead of anything else, then go watch Antonio Margheriti's "Cannibal Apocalypse" (aka "Invasion of the Flesh Hunters"). And make 100% sure you get a hold of the uncut version.