{"id":1292,"date":"2006-08-19T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2020-11-25T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T22:10:11","slug":"cannibal-girls-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal Girls (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;They love every man they meet &#8212; first to death, then for dinner!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Cannibal-Girls-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Cannibal-Girls-Poster-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Cannibal-Girls-Poster-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Cannibal-Girls-Poster-91x128.jpg 91w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Cannibal-Girls-Poster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA young couple (Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) find themselves stranded in a small town, where they are confronted with the living legend of three local &#8220;cannibal girls&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Cannibalism<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this low-budget black-comedy horror flick &#8220;starts out well, but becomes dull and confusing&#8221;.  Beautiful female cannibals who lure men, siren-like, to their bloody deaths has the potential for interesting feminist overtones &#8212; but this potential is destroyed by the inexplicable appearance of a male ringleader (Robert Ulrich), whose purpose in the movie I still can&#8217;t figure out. Other than a few moments of improvised humor between Levy and Martin, most of the scenes in <em>Cannibal Girls <\/em>are painfully derivative, and hold little intrinsic interest. But perhaps most disappointing of all is Levy&#8217;s lackluster performance &#8212; he seems to be hiding beneath his glasses and enormous afro, while his bubbly co-star, Andrea Martin, fares much better. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrea Martin&#8217;s ditzy portrayal as Gloria<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Andrea.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Andrea.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1294\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. While it holds a special place in Canadian film history (see the Canuxploitation review, link below), it will probably only be of interest for true 1970s horror fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0069841\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canuxploitation.com\/review\/cannibalgirls.html\">Canuxploitation Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They love every man they meet &#8212; first to death, then for dinner!&#8221; Synopsis: A young couple (Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) find themselves stranded in a small town, where they are confronted with the living legend of three local &#8220;cannibal girls&#8221;. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Cannibalism Horror Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this low-budget black-comedy horror flick &#8220;starts out well, but becomes dull and confusing&#8221;. Beautiful female cannibals who lure men, siren-like, to their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1292\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54681,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/54681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}