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 Cannibals
(1980)
Blue Underground
R0 / NTSC DVD
Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Jess Franco & Jean Rollin
Starring: Al Cliver, Antonio Mayans, Jess Franco & Lina
Romay
Review by Brian Harris
While traveling down river one day, Dr. Jeremy Taylor and
his family are ambushed by bloodthirsty cannibals! Taylor's
wife is eaten alive in front of him and he and his daughter
are kidnapped and brought back to the cannibal camp. Jeremy
loses an arm to the cannibals but manages to escape, forced
to leave his daughter behind!
Years later he secures financing and heads back out to the
tropics in an effort to locate his daughter and bring her
home. Unfortunately for Dr. Taylor and his party, the
cannibals are prepared to war with the white man at any
cost...even if it means losing their lives!
YARGH! Jess Franco's hack-dashery shines as bright as ever
in this horrid entry into the Italian cannibal sub-genre.
Cannibals exit water dry, paint their faces in day-lo colors
and some even sport hair styles, porn 'staches and wedding
rings! The actual cannibalism is typical Franco slow-motion,
close-up dreck and the super plump and crazy righteous Lina
Romay is utterly wasted in her role as Jeremy Taylor's nurse
& caretaker, Ana.
The locations are absolutely unconvincing for a cannibal
film about deep jungle cannibals and there's even cactuses
and rattlesnakes on display here! The only shining moments
of brilliance in this film are the semi-nude shots of
Sabrina Siani's super perky breasts and rope-thonged booty
and the end credits.
What a pile of steaming stupidity. |
