The films

Cannibals who look like they were recruited outside the catering truck. Almost impressively bad.

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We Are What We Are

A Mexico City family loses its father and has to work out who now does the hunting.

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Devil Hunter

Franco at his most indifferent. Ninety minutes of jungle and a monster with bulging eyes.

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Cannibal Apocalypse

Vietnam veterans come home with a bite that spreads. A better idea than the film delivers.

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Deep River Savages

The first Italian cannibal film. A Man Called Horse relocated to Thailand with mondo bolted on.

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Death Line

Descendants of collapsed tunnel workers living under Russell Square, and Donald Pleasence steals it.

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Parents

A boy in 1950s suburbia suspects the leftovers his parents keep serving are people. Bob Balaban directed.

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Motel Hell

A folksy farmer makes the best smoked meat in the county. The secret is people, planted in the garden up to their necks.

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The Untold Story

A Macau restaurateur and the pork buns. Anthony Wong won Best Actor for it, which tells you about Hong Kong in 1993.

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Trouble Every Day

Claire Denis made a vampire film with no vampires, and it was booed at Cannes.

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Anthropophagous: The Beast

Famous for two shots and unwatchable between them. George Eastman wrote himself the title role.

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Ravenous

A Sierra Nevada fort in 1847, cannibalism as manifest destiny, and a score unlike any other.

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Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in New Guinea. Real animal deaths, which is why it stays notorious.

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Cannibal Ferox

Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.

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Fresh

The title card arrives 33 minutes in, which tells you what kind of film it intends to be.

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Bone Tomahawk

A slow western for 90 minutes, then one scene people never forget. You will know it when it starts.

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Raw

A vegetarian vet student develops an appetite. Julia Ducournau's debut and a genuine coming-of-age film.

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Cannibal Holocaust

Found footage nineteen years before Blair Witch, and six animals actually died to make its point.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Almost bloodless and completely unbearable. Heat, noise and exhaustion doing all the work.