American Cannibal: The Road to Reality (2006)

Directors:

Perry Grebin
Michael Nigro

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

This film documents the train-wreck production and sudden shutdown of American Cannibal, the reality TV show produced by the promoter behind the Paris Hilton sex tape.

Plot Keywords:

Contestant | Cannibalism | Head Injury | Coma | Writer

Cast

Sturgis Adams	...	Himself
Mitchell Allen	...	Himself
Chip Arndt	...	Himself
Kevin Blatt	...	Himself
Jill Boniske	...	Herself
Hannah Buchdahl	...	Herself
Kirsten Buschbacher	...	Herself
Trishelle Cannatella	...	Herself
Monique Capelta	...	Herself
Neil DeGroot	...	Himself
Keith Fenimore	...	Himself
Paul Frazier	...	Himself
Debra Ganz
Lisa Ganz	...	Herself
Jimmy Graham III	...	Himself
George Gray	...	Himself
Philip Gurin	...	Himself
Mark Itkin	...	Himself
Jon Kroll	...	Himself
Daniel Laikind	...	Himself
John Lehr	...	Himself
Dr. Richard Levak	...	Himself
David Lyle	...	Himself
Paul Dion Monte	...	Himself
Michael O'Sullivan	...	Himself
Daniel Petrie Jr.	...	Himself
Rick Ringbakk	...	Himself
Gil S. Ripley	...	Himself
Fred Risher	...	Himself
Dave Roberts	...	Himself
Rob Sharenow	...	Himself
B.J. Sigesmund	...	Himself
Frank Stallone	...	Himself
Linda Stasi	...	Herself
Karen Sternheimer	...	Herself
Bob Thompson	...	Himself
Ryan Westheimer	...	Himself
Lizz Winstead	...	Herself
Myles Yates	...	Himself

Also Known As:

American Cannibal (USA) (DVD box title)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Caribbean Sea

Company:

Acme Pictures

Trivia:

The New York Times reported that many of the events in the film are created by the directors.

reality TV documentary

Helllllooooo Reality TV Fans! Now is the time to transfer your interest to a reality TV documentary that explores absolutely nothing! That's right, American Cannibal is an ninety- something minute film that chases its tail in hopes of actually revealing something about human obsession, but only achieves to reveal something about how the directors relied too much on someone else's opinion to create a story that never comes through. The craft of the film is so poor that the audience has to tread through forty minutes of muck before getting to what the story could have been. And when we arrive to the story, it's barely introduced and buried somewhere in footage left on the cutting-room floor. Yeap, there's a story in there somewhere, but certainly not in the film. I sincerely applaud the filmmakers for attempting to find the story and sticking with what was obviously difficult circumstances. And it's incredible to see some of the footage they captured, but the story is so poorly constructed that one wonders why they spent so many year filming this event instead of organizing a structured story. As the film currently stands, it nothing more than spectacle.