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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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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.]]
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]] ==
* ''[[The Man From Deep River]]''
* ''[[Last Cannibal World]]''
* ''[[Emmanuelle|Emanuelle and the Last
* ''[[Prisoner of the Cannibal God]]'' (also known as ''Slave of the Cannibal God
* ''[[Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Primitives]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]''
* ''Eaten Alive!'' 1980▼
* ''
* ''
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]''
* ''[[Cannibal Terror]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox 2: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley]]''
▲* ''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.
* ''[[The Green Inferno]]'' (1988).
* ''[[Cannibal Women
* There's a '''Cannibal Tribe''' in [[Nation]], but aside from being terrifying raiders who take human prisoners for slaves (and dinner, of course), they're really quite reasonable... and not nearly as terrifying as [[Complete Monster|First Mate Cox]].▼
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* [[Monkey Island]] features a former Cannibal Tribe that has since turned towards vegetarianism.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris, and 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". ▼
▲* There's a '''Cannibal Tribe''' in Terry Pratchett's non-''Disworld'' novel ''[[Nation]]'', but aside from being terrifying raiders who take human prisoners for slaves (and dinner, of course), they're really quite reasonable... and not nearly as terrifying as [[Complete Monster|First Mate Cox]].
* Elements of this turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game from the 1981 novel ''[[Dream Park]]'' by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* A regular threat in ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World]]''.
▲* Elements of this turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game from the 1981 novel ''Dream Park''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* ''[[Monkey Island]]'' features a former Cannibal Tribe that has since turned towards vegetarianism.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris,
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