THE CANNIBAL MAN
TAG LINE : WHEN THE BUTCHER GOES BERSERK!
RELEASED BY INTERVISION
CATORGRY NUMBER :A-A 0348
RUNTIME : 94 MINUTES 13 SECONDS
AKA : LA SEMANA DEL ASESINO AND THE APARTMENT ON THE 13TH FLOOR
DIRECTOR : ELOY DE LA IGLESIA
COUNTRY : SPAIN
YEAR : 1972
STARRING : VINCENT PARRA, EMMA COHEN, EUSEBIO PONCELA, VICKY LAGOS AND LOLA HERRERA
REVIEW
A very rare addition to the list, in complete Intervision carton form that is. In most cases, it crops up in the format of an Intervision carton sleeve, which has been cut and placed into a standard VHS small box.
It involves the tale of Marcos, a slaughterhouse worker, who accidentally kills a taxi driver, and goes on a one-man-band of depraved killings, before resorting to cannibalism in order to dispose of the bodies.
The film begins with mass scenes of blood shed in the slaughter house, which sets the picture that the film will be really gory and nasty. This isn’t the case at all. It isn’t particularly bad at all, it was probably just banned because it contains the word “cannibal” in its title, as so was immediately hauled off the shelves along with old favourites such as Ferox and Holocaust.
Marcos meets his girlfriend, Paola, one night. They
get in a taxi, and are kicked out for being too amorous. Marcos retaliates
to this, and kills the taxi driver, albeit by accident. Flowing with an insuppressible
rage, Marcos proceeds to kill his girlfriend, his brother, his brother’s
girlfriend, and her father! Marcos then chops up the dead bodies and tries
to dump them in his soup-making machine, before his humanity returns, he feels
guilty and ends up confessing all to the rozzers.
WRITTEN BY TONY FRIZZELL
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