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{{trope}}{{cleanup|Confused article. Is it about a very specific genre of Italian film dating from the 1970s and 80s, as it claims? Or is it about cannibal tribes in general as the presence of non-Italian non-film examples suggests? Probably needs to be split into a category for the genre and a related trope.}} |
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From the mid 1970s until around the mid 1980s, a slew of chiefly Italian films were made that are known as "cannibal films" and are considered to form one of the most extreme subgenres of horror. The premise for every film involves civilized, predominantly white protagonists venturing into remote South American/Asian jungles and encountering tribes of dark-skinned human-eaters. The tropes for these films are quite consistent, possibly because most of the films essentially ripped off one of three cannibal films that enjoyed financial success. These tropes include: |
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* The triumph of the white man (possibly the only brand of horror films where guys actually have a fighting chance, provided, of course, that they are white). This triumph can come in the form of successfully escaping the jungle or establishing a positive relationship with the savages, using gizmos and measured hand gestures. |
* The triumph of the white man (possibly the only brand of horror films where guys actually have a fighting chance, provided, of course, that they are white). This triumph can come in the form of successfully escaping the jungle or establishing a positive relationship with the savages, using gizmos and measured hand gestures. |
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* Characters played by Ivan Rassimov and Me Me Lai. They appeared in three films in the genre, more than any other actor. Me Me Lai's characters were native women with, um, breast implants. |
* Characters played by Ivan Rassimov and Me Me Lai. They appeared in three films in the genre, more than any other actor. Me Me Lai's characters were native women with, um, breast implants. |
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* Sadly, almost every cannibal film made in this period features animal cruelty either from wildlife footage or in scenes created for the film. This aspect of the films both cements their infamy as a subgenre and their notoriety as going further down the path of moral decadence than most other horror films. |
* Sadly, almost every cannibal film made in this period features animal cruelty either from wildlife footage or in scenes created for the film. This aspect of the films both cements their infamy as a subgenre and their notoriety as going further down the path of moral decadence than most other horror films. |
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* The most well-known and successful of these films was ''Cannibal Holocaust'' in 1980. [[No Animals Were Harmed|It is also infamous for scenes of gratuitous animal death, among other things.]] |
* The most well-known and successful of these films was ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' in 1980. [[No Animals Were Harmed|It is also infamous for scenes of gratuitous animal death, among other things.]] |
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Compare [[Cannibal Clan]], which is more or less the inverse of this trope, where the cannibals are typically white-trash types suffering from an advanced case of backwoods degeneracy. |
Compare [[Cannibal Clan]], which is more or less the inverse of this trope, where the cannibals are typically white-trash types suffering from an advanced case of backwoods degeneracy. |
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== [[Film]] == |
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* ''The Man From Deep River'' |
* ''[[The Man From Deep River]]'' (1972) was the first Italian cannibal film and introduced the notions of white people being trapped in cannibal territory, exotic rituals, white-native sex and Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov. |
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* ''Last Cannibal World'' |
* ''[[Last Cannibal World]]'' (1977). four plane passengers are stranded in a jungle, the brown-skinned members of the group die quickly, the main character is stripped, fondled and urinated on and watches the natives kill first one of their own using bull ants and then a crocodile. He escapes using Me Me Lai, who helps him survive before being eaten by the pursuing tribe. |
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* ''Emanuelle and the Last |
* ''[[Emmanuelle|Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals00'' (1977) |
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* [[Slave of the Cannibal God |
* ''[[Prisoner of the Cannibal God]]'' (also known as ''Slave of the Cannibal God'' and ''The Mountain of the Cannibal God'' (1978) |
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* ''Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals'' 1978 |
* ''[[Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals]]'' (1978) |
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* ''Primitives'' 1979 |
* ''[[Primitives]]'' (1979) |
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* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' |
* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' (1980). Upon the film's release, the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors [[Snuff Film|murdered for the camera.]] Their names were cleared when they arranged for the "dead" actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' and ''[[The Last Broadcast]]'' appropriated their [[Mockumentary]] style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''. |
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* ''[[Eaten Alive!]]'' (1980) |
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* ''[[White Cannibal Queen]]'' (1980) |
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* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]'' |
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]'' (1981). Natives capture two men who previously exploited them, along with three college students who have fallen in with them. The natives humiliate and kill all but one of them in slow, ritualistic fashion -- hence the official and alternative movie title: ''Make Them Die Slowly''. |
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* ''Cannibal Terror'' 1981 |
* ''[[Cannibal Terror]]'' (1981) |
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* ''Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story'' 1985 |
* ''[[Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story]]'' (1985) |
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* ''Cannibal Ferox 2: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley |
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox 2: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley]]'' |
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* ''[[The Green Inferno]]'' (1988). |
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* ''Cannibal Women |
* ''[[Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death]]'' (1989) is a satire of those kinds of film that is better than it sounds. It [[Moral Guardians|had to be]] billed as ''Piranha Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death'' in the UK to avoid association with the genre. |
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* In 2003, director Bruno Mattei directed and created two straight-to-video Cannibal Tribe films, ''Cannibal Ferox 3: Land of Death'' and 'Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Beginning'' (AKA ''Mondo Cannibale''), the official sequel to the original ''Cannibal Holocaust'' movie. Both films are a mix of ''Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, [[Predator]]'', plus every other cannibal film imaginable from the 70s and 80s, thrown into not one but two giant blenders. Once that's done, you've got yourself two demonic and tainted cannibal films forged from the blackest/darkest pits of Hell. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
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⚫ | * [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris, |
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== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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* A regular threat in ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World]]''. |
* A regular threat in ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World]]''. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
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⚫ | * [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of the 1977 book ''Cannibals and Kings'', has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins. According to Harris, the Aztec economy would not support feeding them as slaves and the columns of prisoners were "marching meat". |
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