- Director
- Jesús Franco
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 80 min
Also released as
- El canibal
- Sexo caníbal
- Mandingo Manhunter
- Manhunter - O Sequestro
- Секс с канибали
- Chasseur de l'enfer
- Chasseurs d'hommes
- Sexo-Canibale
- To anurwpokynhghto
- Il cacciatore di uomini
- O Raptor
- Дьявольский охотник
- Сексуальный каннибал
- Jakten Pa Kidnapparna
- El cazador de hombre
- Jungfrau unter Kannibalen
- The Devil Hunter
- 人喰い魔神・裸女狩り
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Devil Hunter
Devil Hunter is a 1980 Spanish, French and German cannibal film directed by Jesús Franco. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
Franco at his most indifferent. Ninety minutes of jungle and a monster with bulging eyes.
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Franco at his most indifferent, which is saying something.
A model is kidnapped and taken into the jungle, where a tribe worships a bug-eyed creature. A mercenary goes after her. That is ninety minutes.
The creature is a man in body paint with prosthetic eyes and the film shows him constantly and in daylight. There are extended sequences of people walking. The zoom lens is used in place of coverage throughout.
It was shot back to back with other Franco productions on shared locations, which was the economics of his career.
Successfully prosecuted, and it is one of the clearest cases where the prosecution was about a category rather than a film: there is very little in it that a jury in 1984 could not have seen in a cinema.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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