Cannibal Curse (1988) User Reviews

Bizarre and funny (not in a good way)

[TrickTaylor · 4/10 · 21 December 2007]

I too got this movie from the Tales of Voodoo double disc. The movie itself is a bizarre mish-mash of Asian rituals, repressed love, and sterile sex scenes. From the box I expected an Asian cannibal movie, but cannibals have very little to do with this flick.

The story is some convoluted mess about reincarnated loves, rituals of the occult, and a snake god. The main character is looking for her long lost love who was killed 20 years earlier. Why only 20 years? Trust me, it is not worth it to delve into the specifics of this movie's plot lines. Through it all we get horny cousins, Asian men in Speedos, and 2 old wizards cut straight out of the worst old kung fu movie. The whole thing is a bit of a blur since the captioning was not formatted to fit the television screen.

The most unique part of the film was the mysterious white fuzzy dot that would cover the female pubic area during the sex scenes. In one particularly acrobatic scene the little white dot gets quite the workout. There must be copies of this movie floating around that provide the fullest female frontal this side of porn. Breasts are a plenty, but all full frontal is fuzzed out.

I knew going in the Curse would be more of a curiosity than anything else. It was fun to see what Philipinos view as sexy and scary. The obvious ties to Asian beliefs are interesting, if not hard to follow. Gorehouds avoid since this one provides very little blood, save for the last scene.

Cannibal Curse

[Michael_Elliott · 13 March 2008]

Cannibal Curse (1987)

1/2 (out of 4)

Incredibly bad Hong Kong flick but I'm really not too sure what it's about. A mad doctor (or something) in the jungle has beautiful Asian women bath in a (?) magic pond then go out and have sex with men. Or something like that. Either way the film is simply boring and pretty poorly made and no, there aren't any cannibals in the film. The original title was Curse but perhaps they should have added some flesh eaters. The only thing that keeps me from giving this sucker a BOMB is the fact that there's a lot of beautiful Asian chicks getting naked throughout the film. Yeah, I'm nice like that.

A hilariously ridiculous mess

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 8 August 2008]

Poor Maria is married to a hideously abusive and impotent old cripple. She's having an affair with the hunky gardener Roberto. Her cousin runs Roberto over with his car. Maria goes to an old witch lady and has a spell done so both she and Roberto will be reincarnated twenty years later. Cue twenty years later. Maria, sad and lonely, meets the reincarnation of Roberto, but alas he's married and hence not interested in her. So Maria enlists the aid of an evil, cackling, snake-worshiping sorcerer to cast a spell on Roberto so she can finally have him. Got that? Well, I'm not quite sure if that above plot synopsis is entirely correct, but it's the best I can do. Director Yeung Kong fails miserably to add any much-needed coherence to this often uproariously awful and muddled mess of a supernatural romantic horror flick. Luckily, there's a wealth of tasty female nudity and a handy helping of sizzling soft-core sex scenes to keep things pleasingly sleazy throughout. (However, in one hysterically strenuous sex scene involving the evil lascivious sorcerer and a hapless young lady a big glowing white dot covers the woman's pubic area!). The funky, throbbing score, a gnarly tribe of nasty cannibal dwarfs, and a smidgen of suitably gross last reel gore further add to the strangely compelling and frequently unintentionally sidesplitting anything-goes surreal fun of this enjoyably senseless head-scratcher.