Then there's that beloved Eurociné dubbing, which never comes even remotely close to matching any single language spoken by mankind. The dialogue is easily as hilarious as Zombie Lake, while anyone expecting the no-holds-barred experience of Cannibal Ferox will be either amused or utterly deflated by watching the "natives" rubbing and smushing lots of animal guts for what seems like minutes on end. The cast only features a small handful of familiar faces, such as Sylvia Solar (Eyeball) and Jess Franco regulars Olivier Mathot and the ubiquitous Robert Foster (Sadomania), but surprisingly, Franco didn't direct this one, apart from some stock footage yanked from Cannibals.
Continuing their raid of the Eurociné vaults, Severin has come up with a surprisingly nice-looking DVD that wrings much better visuals than you'd expect based on cruddy videotape editions. Naturally it still looks like a cheap movie shot near someone's country house, but no one could have ever expected a spotless anamorphic transfer of this puppy to come along. The packaging claims it was mastered in HD, too, which means the Blu-Ry must be right around the corner. Or not. The film was dubbed in every territory in which it was released due to the international cast, so the uproarious English dub (which in classic Lucio Fulci style uses an adult to dub the child lead) is about as legitimate as any. Extras include the bongo-riffic theatrical trailer and a bonus "spicy" scene with Lorna the Exorcist's Pamela Stanford doing a topless striptease, which was removed from the film for reasons only the Eurocult gods will ever decipher.
Directed by Alain Deruelle / Starring Silvia Solar, Robert Foster, Burt Altman, Gerard Lemaire, Pamela Stanford, Olivier Mathot
Severin (US R0 NTSC) / WS (1.66:1) (16:9)
In a genre known for its absurdity, few European cannibal films can compete with the delirious inanity of Cannibal Terror, a, uh, "minimalist" French/Spanish production which inexplicably earned a slot on Great Britain's notorious video nasty list. While the Italians were busy churning out high-profile shockfests from directors like Deodato and Lenzi, this one comes straight from the lunatic house of Eurociné, purveyors of the most charming, cheapjack exploitation France had to offer. Direction here is credited to Alain Deruelle, making his sole horror outing amidst a career in hardcore with films like Pornographie Spéciale - Rage Porno, which should give you some idea of what the filmmaking level is here. However, no one could possibly be ready for the amount of hilarity of what lies in store.
The plot... hmmm, well, there isn't much of that here, but the setup here involves a couple of lowlife crooks who decide to kidnap the little daughter of some rich industrialist (or something) and hold her ransom in the jungle, which actually looks more like a forest outside a Spanish town. They decide to hide out with one of the locals, but he gets a little upset when they decide to rape his wife. So back out on the road they go, right into the middle of cannibal cookout central. Said flesheaters are basically caucasians wearing warpaint and bad hairstyles, even more ridiculous than the ones in Jess Franco's comparable efforts in the same genre like Cannibals.
