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 Cannibal Apocalypse (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Antonio Margheriti / Actors: John Saxon, Giovanni Lombardo Radice ... more  Cannibal Apocalypse (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 30 May, 2005 at Cinema Club / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PALNewest Review: ... is pretty good, and gives the film more weight than you'd expect. The hero is played by John Saxon (of Enter the Dragon ... more ... fame). He was apparently pretty depressed about appearing in the film; his melancholy performance may reflect that, but it's effective whatever the reason. The cannibal Nam vets are good in a completely OTT way, especially Giovanni Radice (who was good at this kind of thing - he's castrated in explicit detail in Cannibal Ferox). Here he comes across as almost a low-budget De Niro, with an intense, Travis Bicklesque turn. The rest of the cast are variable - there are problems with the fact that the film was obviously post-d...more |
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Cannibal Apocalypse (DVD): Imagine if the A-Team had been cannibals (1013 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 19.01.08 (Very useful, 127 readings)
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A review of the Studio Canal DVD. This is a video nasty from 1980. In 1978 Romero's Dawn of the Dead made a huge impact in Italy. There followed a slew of Italian zombie and cannibal movies which replaced Romero's satire and despair with gore - and plenty of it. This is one of them. A pair of Vietnam veterans are consumed by an uncontrollable need for human flesh. Their former commanding officer is struggling to contain his own desire of fresh meat, and eventually they go on the run, leaving death and half-eaten bodies in their wake. Cannibal Apocalypse isn't like most cannibal films of the era (which are typically set in South America ...
