Last Cannibal World (1977) – Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Catalyst
Malevolent Dave September 27, 2023
When it comes to Italian Cannibal films, many will point to Umberto Lenzi’s The Man From Deep River (1972) as the film that laid out the
When it comes to Italian Cannibal films, many will point to Umberto Lenzi’s The Man From Deep River (1972) as the film that laid out the
In 2015, Director Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert and David Whelan wrote and directed Savageland (2015) a found footage (found snapshot, more like it) mockumentary film
As huge fans of late 70s and early 80s Italian Cannibal mania, it was only a matter of time before we talked about Eli Roth’s
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hiddenThis is the eighth in a series of articles looking at Eurocult films from the 1970s and 1980s that focus on a theme of diabolical/demonic
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