Trouble Every Day (2001)
Sex and Cannibalism
Acclaimed director Claire Denis makes a quite out there film in which people are obsessively driven to devour others during the act of sex
Cannibalism
Cannibalism concerns the eating of human flesh by other humans. This has been practiced ritually by various tribes historically. There have been recorded cases of true-life serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrei Chikatilo, Albert Fish and in recent years the notoriety that circulated around Armin Meiwes who engaged in the act as part of a fetish.
On screen, cannibalism is depicted as the habit of serial killers or backwoods families. There have also been a number of treatments about killers who regard the consumption of human flesh as a gourmet delicacy, the most famous of these being Hannibal Lecter.
Other treatments show it as a necessity in harsh survivalist situations such as the American Frontier or in post-apocalyptic futures where there is nothing else to eat.
The Italian cannibal film of the 1970s depicted in gore-drenched detail the activities of various primitive tribes and contains some of the most extreme horror scenes ever placed on screen.
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Psycho Film
If there ever was a genre actually called grindhouse, this is a prime example. A sordid little film about an undertaker and two diner owners killing spree to drum up business and serve the remains as the special of the day n the diner
Unholy Night (2019)
Christmas Horror Anthology
Modest and well-made low-budget anthology of Christmas horror tales from three Canadian filmmakers
The Vampire’s Night Orgy (1974)
Town of Vampires
Quite possibly the most boring 1970s Euro horror film ever made. Innocent travellers stray into a village of vampires but hardly anything happens in this soporific Spanish effort least of all the title orgy
Violent Shit: The Movie (2015)
Occult Serial Killer
The original i>Violent Shit films were a series of plotless, gore-drenched German films of the 80-90s. This is a very loose Italian-made remake that is more about the activities of an occult serial killer. Not very well made but there are a lot of homages to classic giallo cinema
Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains (2018)
Horror Film on a Horror Film Set
Full marks for an attention-grabbing exploitation title, this is a horror film that takes place on a horror film set where film being shot and sinister characters on the sideline blur in a rubber reality
We Are the Flesh (2016)
Catalogue of Depravities
There are few films that you can accuse of crossing over taboo lines and keeping going without compromise. This Mexican film has been construed as a catalogue of depravities; on the other hand, the lack of even a nominal plot soon causes this to lapse into repetitive tedium
We Are What We Are (2010)
Family of Cannibals
Grimly fascinating Mexican film about the activities of a family of cannibals. The film keeps you intrigued because it only drops suggestions about what is happening, leaving it up to us to piece solutions together, although the eventual lack of answers is frustrating
We Are What We Are (2013)
Family of Cannibals
English-language remake of the Mexican film, this version made by Jim Mickle who made the fine Stake Land. This version is far less cryptic about what is happening but is more muted and takes far longer to ever arrive at being a horror film, although delivers an effectively brutal ending
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
Backwoods Brutality
A sequel that has been arranged for the sole purpose of serving up a series of gory dispatch set-pieces every few minutes
Year 10 (2024)
Post-Apocalyptic Survival
Film set in the aftermath of civilisation where people have lost the capacity for speech
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Italian Zombie/Cannibal Film
One of the most extreme films among the early 1980s fad for Italian zombie films, which it also manages to merge with the Italian cannibal film. Beyond the provision of gore effects, there is not much else to the film