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From the mid 1970's until around the mid 1980's, 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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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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* ''The Man From Deep River''
* ''Last Cannibal World''
* ''Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals'' 1977
* [[Slave of the Cannibal God|''The Mountain of the Cannibal God'']] 1978
* ''Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals'' 1978
* ''Primitives'' 1979
* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'',
* ''Eaten Alive!'' 1980
* ''White Cannibal Queen'' 1980
* ''Devil Hunter'' 1980
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]'',
* ''Cannibal Terror'' 1981
* ''Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story'' 1985
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* ''The Green Inferno'' 1988: By that time, film director Antonio Climati was considered to have put an end to the genre in 1988 with the film Natura Contro, which is also known as an unofficial sequel to Cannibal Holocaust.
* ''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 etc etc'' in the UK to avoid association with the genre.
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* Did you know? In 2003, director Bruno Mattei Directed & created 2 straight-to-video release Cannibal Films such as "Cannibal Ferox 3: Land of Death" & "Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Begining a.k.a. Mondo Cannibale". In Secret, It's the official sequel to the Original Cannibal Holocaust Movie. Both films are a Mix of Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, Predator, plus every other cannibal films from the 70s & 80s imaginiable & imagine they're thrown into not one but two giant blenders. Once that's done, you've got yourself 2 Demonic & Tainted Cannibal Films Forged from the Blackest/Darkest Pits of Hell.
* [[Monkey Island]] features a former Cannibal Tribe that has since turned towards vegetarianism.
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