Terror Cannibal (1980)

Country of Origin: Spain / France
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 89 mins 35 sec (UK DVd (PAL))      90 mins     93 mins     95 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Eurocine
Production Manager: Marius Lesoeur
Unit Manager: Bernard Marzole

SCRIPT
Script: Ilona Kunesova
Story: H.L. Rostaine

DIRECTION
Director: Allan W. Steeve (real name: Julio Perez Tabernero)
Assistant Directors: Claude Plaut (?), Michel Malaussena

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alain Hardy
Camera Operator: Alain Singer
Laboratory: GTC

EDITING
Chief Editor: Roland Grillon
Assistant Editor: Dominique Petit

MUSIC
Music: Jean Jacques Lemeztre

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Titles: Technilabs

CAST
Silvia Solar
Gerard Lemaire
Stan Hamilton
Burt Altman
Pamela Stanford
Olivier Mathot
Tony Fontaine
Anthony Mayans
Michel Laury
'The Little Annabelle' (Florence)

SUMMARY

A pair of criminals bungle a kidnapping and end up with their youthful hostage in a South American jungle. While hiding out at a house owned by one of their underworld contacts, they manage to upset the local cannibal tribe who soon exact a terrible revenge.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Scrape the very bottom of the cannibal movie barrel and this is the foul smelling residue you'll find there. Iredeemable on almost any level - it's not like it even has any gore or violence to engage the interest. As comedy it raises a few unintentional chuckles, but you have to get through an awful lot of crap to get to the few funny bits. Best avoided.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Video Distributor: Modern Films / Mountain Video
DVD Distributors: Screen Entertainment (SDVD1016)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: banned after 1984; re-rated 18, with no cuts, in March 2003.

TIMELINE

2003
March
11: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (with no cuts)

April
21: UK - DVD release (Screen Entertainment (SDVD1016))

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Cannibal Terror - UK title
Terreur Cannibale - French title
Kidnapping

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Mondo Cannibale (1980)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

European Trash Cinema 2:8 pp.13-14
review

Video Watchdog 10 pp.18-19
credits

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.359
credits, review

The Seduction of the Gullible p.49
credits, review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

cannibalism; jungles; criminals; kidnapping; children

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009