1980 · cannibal · veteran · horror
Cannibal Apocalypse
Directed by Antonio Margheriti1h 36m1980
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Our read: Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive cannibal · veteran · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme cannibal / veteran, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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