The Best of Cannibal Films

The Mountain of the Cannibal God (Italian title: La montagna del dio cannibale) is an Italian cult movie starring Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach with English dialogue. The film was also widely released as Slave of the Cannibal God and released in the UK as Prisoner of the Cannibal God. The film was banned in the UK until 2001 for its graphic violence and considered a "video nasty".

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest and dealing with indigenous tribes, it was cast mostly with United States actors and filmed in English to achieve wider distribution. Francesca Ciardi and Luca Barbareschi were among the leads as native Italian speakers to qualify the film as European for distribution on the Continent. Cannibal Holocaust achieved notability because its graphic violence aroused controversy. After its premiere in Italy, it was seized by a local magistrate, and Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges. He was charged with making a snuff film, due to rumors that some actors were killed on camera. Although Deodato was later cleared, the film was banned in Italy, the UK, Australia, and several other countries due to its graphic depiction of violence, sexual violence, and the slaughter of six animals. Some nations have since revoked the ban, but the film is still barred in several countries. The critic David Carter suggests the film is a commentary about civilized society. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of the search for a documentary film crew who had gone to film indigenous tribes and been missing for two months. A second team, headed by the New York anthropologist Harold Monroe, recovers their lost cans of film and learns their fate. Much of the film is the portrayal of the recovered films' content; the sections of "documentary" film function similarly to a flashback and grows increasingly disturbing as the film progresses.

l paese del sesso selvaggio (1972), better known as The Man from the Deep River in North America or Deep River Savages in Europe, is an Italian exploitation film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It is perhaps best known for popularizing the cannibal genre of Italian exploitation cinema during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lenzi was probably trying to imitate the content of notorious Mondo cinema, which had gained considerable Grindhouse popularity since Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara made Mondo Cane in 1962, even though this film is fictional. Like Man from Deep River, Mondo films often focus on exotic customs and locations, graphic violence, and animal cruelty. The film was mainly inspired by A Man Called Horse, which also featured a white man who is incorporated into a tribe that originally held him captive. The title The Man from the Deep River is even supposed to echo the title of A Man Called Horse.

Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977; English: Last Cannibal World, also known as Jungle Holocaust) is a cannibal exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato, which stars Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov. The screenplay was written by Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici and Renzo Genta, and tells the story of a man trying to escape from a jungle island inhabited by a native cannibal tribe. The film was distributed under a confusing number of different titles and edits, and is available uncut on DVD from the company Media Blasters, under their "Shriek Show" label. It is the precursor to Deodato's controversial 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust, but was originally slated to be directed by Umberto Lenzi as a follow-up to his prototypical 1972 cannibal film Il paese del sesso selvaggio (Man from Deep River).

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Emanuelle E Gli Ultimi Cannibali; a.k.a. Trap Them and Kill Them) is a 1977 Italian sexploitation film by Joe D'Amato. It is notable for its scenes of gore, which include rape, castration, cannibalism and disembowelment, and for being a mix of erotic and horror, something on which the director would later focus with his films Porno Holocaust and Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead.

Papaya dei Caraibi (1978) (Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals)

Primitif (1978) (Primitives; Savage Terror)

Mangiati vivi!, also known by its English title Eaten Alive!, is an Italian cannibal-rape film, directed by Umberto Lenzi, released in 1980. Alternative titles for the movie, include "The Emerald Jungle" and "Eaten Alive by Cannibals". It stars Robert Kerman, Janet Agren and Me Me Lai. In secondary roles, it stars Franco Fantasia, Mel Ferrer and Ivan Rassimov. It is one of the most notorious cannibal films, after Cannibal Ferox and Cannibal Holocaust. The film features scenes of graphic nudity, castration, rape, beheading, animal abuse and impalement. While the whole genre is defined by these elements, this film goes significantly above and beyond the formula. Most of the violent scenes from the film have been lifted from other movies in the genre (like the scene where a python swallows a live monkey, lifted from The Mountain of the Cannibal God), even from Lenzi's other cannibal film Man From Deep River. It was released on DVD by Shriek Show. It is regarded as equal to Cannibal Ferox by the director, who says Cannibal Ferox did well at the box office. The story is loosely based on the Jonestown Massacre of 1978.

Mondo Cannibale (also known as Cannibals and White Cannibal Queen and Barbarian Goddess) is a 1980 cannibal film by prolific Spanish exploitation director Jesús Franco which starred a 17-year-old Sabrina Siani . It is one of two cannibal films directed by Franco starring Al Cliver, the other being Man Hunter (aka Devil Hunter, aka Sexo Canibal). Mondo Cannibale is considered even by Franco himself to be the worst cannibal film ever made, due to its slow pacing, bad acting, terrible special effects and awful camera work. An uncut DVD was released by Blue Underground. The DVD features an interview with Jesus Franco and the French theatrical trailer. Franco said in the interview that he only did the 2 cannibal films for the money, and admitted he had no idea why anyone would want to watch them. He said that Sabrina Siani was the worst actress he ever worked with in his life (next only to Romina Power).

Il cacciatore di uomini (1980) (The Man Hunter; Devil Hunter)

Orgasmo nero (1980) (Black Orgasm)

"Make Them Die Slowly" redirects here. For the White Zombie album, see Make Them Die Slowly (album). Cannibal Ferox, also known as Make Them Die Slowly, is a 1981 Italian exploitation film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made". Claims were also made in promotional material that Cannibal Ferox was banned in 31 countries, though the official list of countries that have banned it has never been released. This figure has been quoted in the Guinness Book of Records.

Cannibal Terror (French title: Terreur Cannibale) is a 1981 Cannibal film. It was directed by Alain Deruelle and written by Julio Pérez Tabernero and H.L. Rostaine. Released at the end of the "cannibal boom", this film is French, instead of Italian, like most films of the genre.

Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia (1985) (Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story)

Nudo e selvaggio (1985) Massacre in Dinosaur Valley; Cannibal Ferox 2)

Natura contro (English: Cannibal Holocaust II and English: The Green Inferno) is a 1988 Italian jungle adventure film directed by mondo director Antonio Climati. Climati had no intention of making a sequel to Cannibal Holocaust, and the title was used by distributors of the film to cash in on the success and notoriety of the earlier film. Until recently, the film was relatively obscure. It is best known among cult fans as the film that ended the cannibal genre, which, by then, had virtually fallen extinct. In 2002, British distributor VIPCO released Natura Contro on VHS and DVD as Cannibal Holocaust II, the film's most common release. This was the last film directed by Climati, who had gained notoriety as a major player in the mondo documentary film genre. Although fictional, this film deals with many common tropes of mondo films, including exotic customs and locales, and cruel violence. Strangely, however, the film appears to show compassion towards animals, while a main staple of mondo films is often real violence towards animals.

Cannibal Apocalypse (also known as Apocalypse domani) is a 1980 horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti, written by Margheriti and Dardano Sacchetti, and starring John Saxon.

The Cannibal Man (Spanish La Semana del asesino) is a 1972 horror film, directed by Eloy de la Iglesia, and written by de la Iglesia and Antonio Fos.

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death is a 1989 film starring Shannon Tweed and Bill Maher. The film is a campy send-up of pop culture motifs and societal trends, including feminism (and feminist movements' fragmentation around various issues), B-movies (particularly Cannibal Holocaust), and California. It was written (under the pseudonym J. D. Athens) by J. F. Lawton, who also authored Pretty Woman, the Under Siege series of movies and the television show V.I.P.

Ravenous is a 1999 horror film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and that of Alferd Packer. Screenwriter Ted Griffin lists Packer's story, as recounted in a couple of paragraphs of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man, as one of his inspirations for Carlyle's character. The film's darkly humorous and ironic take on its gruesome subject matter have led some to label it a black comedy. The film's unique score by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn generated a significant amount of attention. The film's production did not get off to a good start. Original director Milco Mancevski left the production two weeks after shooting started. He was replaced by Bird at the suggestion of Carlyle, who had worked with Bird on the film Priest.

Cannibals: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2007 American horror film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh and starring Sandy Gardiner, Callard Harris and Nick Richey.

Cannibal Campout is a 1988 horror film directed by Jon McBride. It is about four teenagers on a camping trip who are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals living in the woods. It was shot completely on video, and released to video in 1988. Jon McBride would go on to make another low budget horror film the next year, entitled Woodchipper Massacre.

Curse of the Cannibal Confederates (also known as The Curse of the Screaming Dead) is a 1982 horror film directed by Tony Malanowski and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film follows six young friends who unwillingly raise the undead corpses of Confederate soldiers, resulting in what the video box promises as a "a finger-licking good fright film". The film is a remake of sorts. It's based on a film that director Tony Malanowski had collaborated with "star" Steve "The Sandman" Sankuhler, known as Night of Horror. The former was also about dead Confederate soldiers tormenting a bunch of dirty hippies in a Winnebago.

Ruggero Deodato, director of the classic cannibal movies JUNGLE HOLOCAUST and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, returns to similar territory here. CUT AND RUN stars Lisa Blount as a reporter who, along with her cameraman, begins a story on a series of bizarre murders that soon seems to have a link to the case of their boss' missing son (Willie Aames of CHARLES IN CHARGE and EIGHT IS ENOUGH). When both stories lead the two to the Venezuelan jungle, they discover a drug cartel led by a deranged colonel who has commandeered an army of savage cannibals. Long shown in the US only in a heavily edited version, Anchor Bay presents Deodato's film completely uncut.