Top 9 Cannibals in Horror
Steve Barton
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Hannibal
There are not many films that pull in $350 million at the box office that have such blatant instances of cannibalism in them, but the record-breaking Hannibal didn’t hold anything back. Even though The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Ted Tally and star Jodie Foster all declined participation in the sequel, Anthony Hopkins was on board, and everyone else was apparently replaceable. Not nearly as powerful as the original film, Hannibal does however have some memorable moments, the most stunning, of course, being when Lecter feeds a drugged Officer Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) a portion of his own brain. All right, it was a little goofy, but that’s not something you see every day!
The Hills Have Eyes
Jupiter’s clan of cannibalistic baddies in Wes Craven’s sophomore film The Hills Have Eyes brought a new level of violence and brutality to the big screen. Originally conceived as a retelling of the Sawney Bean legend (if you haven’t heard of this one, it’s worth researching!), the movie stars James Whitworth as the leader of the clan and Michael Berryman (who was fresh off appearing in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). The quality remake directed by Alexandre Aja took the story a bit further to give the savages more of a back story. Either way, the last thing you want to do is get lost in that desert around dinnertime. Yikes!
Ravenous
This movie, which underperformed at the box office, is a little cannibalistic diamond in the rough. Starring Guy Pearce and an outstanding Robert Carlyle, Ravenous is the blackest of black comedies revolving around the incidents at a frontier base during the 1840’s. Jeffrey Jones and David Arquette fill out the cast, adding to the humor. This is another look into the wendigo legend and the belief that eating a man’s flesh gives you that man’s strength, cures your maladies, and gives you incredible recuperative powers. As gruesome as it is disturbingly funny, Ravenous is a fun ride that you can really sink your teeth into! (Sorry, had to do it.)
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