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
Penelope Pimperline
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)

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:

The film was briefly classed as one of the official DPP 74 video nasties in the UK but was removed from the list in 1985. It was released fully uncut in the UK in 2003.

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)

Ouch!

This is a total mess of a movie. A Spanish/French co-production, this was accredited to Jess Franco for a long time until the real culprit (a Spanish ex-actor by the name of Julio Tabacana) was revealed. However, the fact it shares cast/scenes/plot with Franco's THE CANNIBALS, which was released at a similar time, hints that his veiled hand may have been at work somewhere in the production. Other "Franco-isms" include looping stock sound track (in this case, the same bird call repeated ENDLESSLY) and long shots of characters doing absolutely nothing and wandering endlessly through the jungle.

Getting through this is an ordeal. The "natives" are clearly white in origin (possibly cast members?)- many of them have coiffured hair and beer guts, and the only thing to distinguish their cannibal nature are smatterings of paint on their flabby bodies. In some scenes they clearly can't hide their amusement at the "tribal rituals" they are involved in. Their "cannibal village" is quite obviously not in a jungle, as the lawn is neatly mowed and in some shots you can see a road in the background with vehicles parked on it. Adding insult to injury, the disembowelment scenes are all achieved by shamelessly swapping the victim's torso for that of an actual pig corpse wrapped in clothing. Seriously.

For the cannibal enthusiast only, this is painfully boring and inept. It is an insult to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST that the films share a genre.