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For a long time this was mistakenly listed online and in various books as either an alternate title for Jesus Franco's MONDO CANNIBALE (aka WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN), or an entirely different Franco film altogether. It was also mistaken for Franco's DEVIL HUNTER because it basically shares an almost identical kidnappers-stranded-in-cannibal-country premise. However, despite being made by the same production company (Eurociné) around the same time and containing some of the same actors, this isn't a Franco film. I'm not sure he even had anything to do with it despite still being listed in the credits here. And speaking of credits (as if they aren't confusing enough already), the ones in the version I saw list Ilona Kunesova (the script supervisor for MONDO CANNIBALE) as the screenwriter and "Allan W. Steeve" as the director. It says here that "Allan W. Steeve is an alias for Alain Deruelle, yet also lists the films co-star, Olivier Mathot, as well as Spanish actor Julio Pérez Tabernero, as additional uncredited directors. So who the hell actually did make this thing? I can't really answer that, but after watching it, I can't blame everyone for wanting to hide behind a pseudonym.

A trio of "gangsters," Roberto, Lina and Mario (the latter played by Franco movie regular Antonio Mayans) decide to kidnap little Florence (Annabelle) and keep her hostage until her wealthy parents (Silvia Solar and Olivier Mathot) can come up with the ransom money. To ensure an easy escape, the trio decide to drag the little girl across the border into "Indian territory" to hide out with some guy named Antonio and his much-younger wife Manuela (Pamela Stanford). On the way there, their jeep overheats and the female guide is kidnapped by a cannibal tribe, dragged off to their village and is then sliced open and eaten. The kidnappers manage to get the jeep running again and make it to Antonio's home. After Antonio leaves, Mario ties Manuela to a tree and rapes her. When Antonio returns, he ties Mario to a tree and whistles so that a couple of nearby cannibals can come eat him (?!) Everyone else flees into the "jungle" when the parents finally show up looking for their little girl and are picked off one by one by in unexciting ways by the tribe. The end.

I don't even know where to start describing how awful this thing is. I can only say that it's consistent in that everything (the acting, the ridiculous dubbed dialogue, the inappropriate score, badly edited in stock footage, etc.) is awful. It also commits the cardinal trash movie sin of being extremely boring. Aside from just two moments of gore (which are recycled from the aforementioned WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN) and one scene of nudity (provided by Stanford during a hilarious bathing scene where she rapidly tries to scrub her body because she's obviously freezing her ass off outside in the "jungle") this movie is lacking in anything cannibal movie, horror or exploitation fans want to see. The entire grueling first hour consists mostly of people sitting around complaining, while the last half hour consists mostly of people walking around in the "jungle."

Notice I keep putting quotes around "jungle." That's because the "jungle" consists of pine trees, a couple of strategically-placed ferns, gravel roads and a snow-covered mountain backdrop to capture that authentic tropical feel. Even more ridiculous is the "cannibal tribe," which seems to consist of all ethnicities that they try to hide by painting everyone with multi-colored clown makeup. There are Asians, Caucasians, skinny guys, fat guys, little boys and hippies with porkchop sideburns, yet oddly just one female tribe member to populate the entire village. Even if you're a cannibal movie completist, I would think twice about picking this one up.

Now this film is by far not a masterpiece out of the Italian cannibal sub-genre, but it definitely is not the worst either. The film follows two crooks as they kidnap a young girl and take refuge in the jungle. They stay at a friends house, but one of the crooks cant control his urges and rapes the house owners wife. As a result the two crooks are thrown out into the jungles to be eaten by the local cannibals living in the area.

Now if you are not a fan of the cannibal genre you will have no interest in watching this film, because in all honesty it is not that good. But for you cannibal enthusiasts out there I suggest giving this flick a watch. It is the last film to have come out of the "Cannibal Boom" and though it has been stated to be the worst film to come out of the genre I ensure you that this is not the case. White Cannibal Queen, or Primitif deserve such a title, this film on the other hand can be categorized as one of those "its so bad its good" types. The natives look European, the cannibalism scenes go on for too long and is obviously just a pig torso, and the dialog is humorous.

I would say the greatest element in the film is the dubbing of little girl who is kid napped voice. It is clear that it is just a grown women trying to sound like a child and failing miserably, definitely something that keeps you chuckling through out the film.

Are people absolutely sure this isn't a Jess Franco film? The cannibals have the same make up as his White Cannibal Queen, there's footage from that film here, there's actors from both White Cannibal Queen and Oasis of the zombies in here, and the film has that strangely empty feel that his films usually have.

Two horrendously acted gangsters and one..er...nicely proportioned lady kidnap the daughter of some rich businessman and head off to a jungle retreat to hide out. Well, it supposed to be a jungle, but it's really Spain, with a grand total of two stock footage shots and an incessant soundtrack of birds singing to create the illusion of a jungle. While there, following probably the least erotic bathing scene committed to film, one of the gangsters rapes the daughter of the guy hiding them, which leads to all sorts of cannibal mayhem.

Well, substitute 'mayhem' for 'people walking through the 'jungle' forever' and substitute 'cannibal' for 'a bunch of North Yorkshire Miners letting someone draw on their face with magic markers' and you'll have a better idea of this film. The cannibals make a grand total of two appearances, and when they do, we're subject to endless shots of them nearly collapsing with a fit of the giggles while they play around with pig guts.

By no means a great film, at all, but there's a few laughs to be had by the atrocious acting by all involved, the repeated shots of cannibals dancing (over and over and over again), a bit of nudity, a terrible gunfight and a 'touching' ending. At least they don't stop every five minutes to eviscerate an animal.

White Cannibal Queen is a very similar film, but much funnier. Cannibal Terror is just like that film, only much, much, worse.

(sort-of spoiler) Cannibal Terror is the least interesting of the cannibal movies I've seen. It involves a group of criminals who kidnap a little girl and then cross the border into another country (I forget which one). There, they are taken in by a man and his wife. But, when one of the gangsters rapes the wife, and the parents of the little girl lead a search for her, the criminals are forced to flee. They are then attacked by a pack of cannibals.

This boring film lags a lot, and is burdened further by an incredible amount of pointless footage (I mean, how long do those natives dance around anyway?). Also, it's not too gory, and the gore scenes aren't done very well. But it does have one hell of a groovy soundtrack! If you can find a copy (which isn't very easy), I'd recommend picking it up for the music alone.

My favorite part is the beginning, in which the gangsters use even more profanity in five minutes than in the opening of "Make Them Die Slowly"! Now that's impressive!

Two petty thieves and a prostitute (?) decide they want to strike the big one. They kidnap a young girl and fly off to a safe house in the grasslands of South America where the cannibals live. The thieves insult their host and become feed stock.

The dubbing was bad. Sometimes people are "talking" when their lips are not moving. The "Indian" dancing left something to be desired. If you are going to restore the film, get rid of the corny soundtrack. There is a spicy extra of a deleted scene where a woman dances and strips.

3 stars for the camp value.

F-word, sex, rape, nudity.

****possible spoilers**** Nobody makes cannibal films like the italians. This a good case in point. Three crooks, Mario Roberto and a woman, kidnap a young girl Florence Danville. They call in a favor and hide out in a house near a jungle with a guy and his wife. Mario rapes the wife. The guy extracts revenge by leading Mario into the jungle and leaving him there to be eaten by cannibals. The girls parents find out where she is and go looking for her. The remaining crooks leg it into the jungle, hotly pursued by the parents and owners of house. And so it goes on until the cannibals dole out some punishment on the crooks. Inept and poorly made in every department don't waste your money. Theres only a couple of gore scenes in it, and not very well done either. The jungle setting is'nt very convincing with neatly cut grass clearly visible in certain tight shots. The native cannibals themselves are laughable, they have strange 70s styled hair-dos and neatly cut side-burns!!!! Cannibal Holocaust still rules.

Italians are the best at making sword and sorcery movies, end of the world films and, of course, giallo. Mondo, too. And yeah, cannibal movies.

Except, well, this is French.

The film shares footage with Jess Franco's Mondo Cannibale, as well as a number of locations, cast members and even dubbing talent in the English version. It also has Sabrina Siani show up in a bar scene, which is a step down from being the white queen of the cannibal tribe, but that tribe footage seems interchangeable between films. In fact, there are some actors that show up as three roles, so the French believed in green filmmaking since before we knew what that was.

It's weird seeing the parallel earths between these films. Pamela Stanford might be Al Cliver's wife, who gets eaten in Mondo Cannibale - or Cannibals, which confused me enough that I watched it twice forgetting that I had already written about it - is now a major player in this movie.

This was directed by Alain Deruelle, who mainly made adult films and was assisted in making this - just imagine if he didn't have help - by Olivier Mathot (who wrote The Panther Squad) and Julio Pérez Tabernero (the director of Sexy Cat). Deruelle also took Franco's Barbed Wire Dolls footage, filmed a little bit more, threw in some Captive Women 4 and a dollop of Hitler's Last Train and re-released it as Les gardiennes du pénitencier (Jailhouse Wardress).

As for the script - man, I want to see how many pages that thing is - it was written by Tabernero and H. L. Rostaine, the writer of Countdown to Esmerelda Bay, Maniac Killer and Franco's Golden Jail.

This gets in everything you expect from exploitation: a failed theft, a gang of criminals, a hideout and, there you go, an assault on one of the female characters and then, the cannibals arrive and what a sorry lot they are. French white male cannibals, all slow motion eating a pig carcass.

There's bad and then there's this movie bad. It's amazing that Deruelle ever saw a movie, much less directed one.

A couple of dumb hoodlums and their busty prostitute moll abduct the irritatingly cutesy young daughter of a wealthy tycoon. Their plan goes awry when the trio make the fatal mistake of hiding out in a jungle that's the stalking grounds of a savage cannibal tribe.

Sound good? Well, it just ain't. Man, does this painfully awful bilge strike out something rotten in every possible way: The slack (non)direction by Alain Deruelle, the meandering narrative, the pitifully unconvincing cannibal tribe played by mostly white guys sporting beer guts, comb overs, and/or sideburns (!), a lame'n'tame rape scene, the dull and uneventful wafer-thin script by H.L. Rostaine, tacky gore, flat acting, alarming paucity of nudity, insipid villains, annoying little girl hostage, terrible acting, and laughably lousy dubbing all make this steaming pile of celluloid excrement a positively agonizing chore to sit through. Absolute dreck.

Often referred to, when it is referred to at all, as a 'video nasty' from the 1980s, 'Cannibal Terror' is not the work, as some believe, of prolific Spanish Director Jess Franco. French Alain Deruelle can take responsibility for this: Franco was filming 'White Cannibal Queen' at the time, and when he stopped filming, Deruelle begun, using the same sets and some cannibals from Jess's production. This even stars a few names from his repertoire, Pamela Stanford (as Manuela, sporting a black wig) and Antonio Mayans (as the diabolical Mario). Olivier Mathot is also on hand as the rather aged father of little Anabelle. The child is kidnapped (off camera, which is strange for a key dramatic moment), and the ensuing chase to sun-drenched outlands is what fuels the story.

Perhaps dullness is this film's biggest sin. With such an emotive title, you would expect more spectacle than we get here. It might be unkind to suggest these three are the only actors in the production, but it would be true - and that includes those 'voice artistes' responsible for the dubbing. Other cast members are uniformly dreadful, clearly having a bit of a laugh rather than delivering anything, which is absolutely fair enough: view this film in the same way, and you may even enjoy it. But 'a bit of a laugh' is stretched following certain distasteful developments 'Cannibal Terror' has to offer, as well as the grisly gore close-ups (presumably involving animal innards replicating the human variety).

Purely from a practical view, if you are a fairly inept outlaw on the run with the kidnapped child of a rich family, one of the least sensible things to do is to brutally rape the young wife (Stanford) of the friend who is giving you refuge. This is what Mario does. A couple of scenes later, Manuela instigates a wild party with everyone, dancing and offering to strip and having a laugh. Has she forgotten her earlier trauma? Certainly Mario seems a little grumpy, but apart from that, it is business as usual. Bizarre.

The cannibals are a mixed bunch of awkward-looking, painted youths and middle-aged males, a fact conceded by Deruelle - who has never seen the completed film - who gave up any pretence at authenticity when he saw the paucity of the budget. Nice musical score by Jean-Jacques Lemêtre though, although his theme for the film is as far away from anyone's idea of 'terror music' as you can get. That the cannibals turn out ultimately to be rather nice, especially the younger gang-members, should put a smile on the hardest of faces. My score is 5 out of 10.