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Cannibal Girls
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Release : | 1973 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | American International Pictures, Scary Pictures Productions, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
Cast : | Eugene Levy Andrea Martin Ronald Ulrich Randall Carpenter Bonnie Neilson |
Genre : | Horror Comedy |
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Directed by Ivan Reitman of Stripes and Ghostbusters fame, Cannibal Girls is, rather unsurprisingly, as comical as it is ghoulish. Eugene 'Jim's Dad' Levy and Andrea Martin play Cliff and Gloria, a young couple who travel to the isolated, snow-bound town of Farnhamville for a weekend away, where they discover that the place is home to a cannibal cult headed by weirdo 'Svengali' Rev. Alex St. John (Ronald Ulrich), whose three beautiful acolytes (Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson and Mira Pawluk) do his every bidding.Clearly shot on a low budget, with competent direction from Reitman and improvised dialogue from the cast of unknowns (Levy having not yet achieved fame), this darkly humorous tale of the macabre is, going by the majority of reviews here on IMDb, clearly not everyone's cup of tea. I wouldn't call it great, but I certainly wasn't bored by the film as many seem to be. There's an unsettling, bizarre, dreamlike quality to proceedings, some subtly amusing moments, just a smidgen of gore, and the three cannibal girls all take their tops off. Oh, and Eugene Levy's hair and 'tache have to be seen to be believed.6/10. The ending is a tad confusing, but the film is still worth a look for fans of cult '70s oddities.
Some people call this a cult classic. Usually that means cheap and bad, and in that sense this movie is what you'd expect. For me, this was a curiosity - a movie filmed in the small town in which I now live. And while the town has changed a lot since 1973, there are still parts of it I recognized. But aside from satisfying that little bit of local-pride curiosity, there was nothing about this to get very excited about.We discover from the start that the fictional town of Farnhamville has a problem. There's a weird Reverend who seems to control three pretty young girls, and they have a thing for cannibalism. Into the town for some time away stumble a young couple (played by Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) who get caught up in the "horror."As you'd expect from a movie starring Levy and Martin, this movie often tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to get some laughs out of viewers, and when it's failing to do that it's not really that frightening. It does have a fair bit of gore, and several totally unnecessary topless scenes featuring those three pretty young girls. It also has a story that never really makes much sense, and with acting that was - even from Levy and Martin - mostly atrocious, it was painful and at times impossible to stick with this.Cult classic? Yup, if by that you mean it's so bad that it's hard to figure out why anyone would want to take the time to watch it. (2/10)
I saw this movie on it's original release at the Ypsi-Ann drive-in theater, now long gone, replaced by a strip mall on Washtenaw Avenue in the vacuous semi-urban wasteland betwixt Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Michigan. When I saw the title on the marquee cruising by in my rusted black '56 Buick Super I just knew we had to see it and WE HAD TO SEE IT STONED. I wasn't disappointed - except I thought there would be more gory sex... of course I don't remember much, and it's no wonder, given the steamy windows and righteous clouds of smoke and gropes and throbs of randy teens in crowded car. I do remember thinking it was made by hippie freaks, just like us. This was before VCRs and DVDs and once it was gone you figured it was gone forever - no way this could make it back to broadcast TV, even on the late-late show. And to think technology exists to drag this out of it's crypt to yank our psychic triggers...
David Cronenberg said he was the first man to make a horror film in Canada, but I think this was made first. (unless it wasn't considered a horror film). SCTV's Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star as couple who goes to a small town filled with strange people who turns out to be cannibals. The film is low on horror and dead on comedy. American International Pictures didn't know what to do with this film, so they tacked in a door bell sound to warn the viewers of all the shock scenes. (would be shock scenes is more like it). Siskel & Ebert gave this film "The Dog of the Week" back in 1980. Reitman second directional effort is a misfire to horror fans, but it's an intresting film looking back at it now.