1972 · horror · thriller · psychological
The Cannibal Man
Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia1h 38m1972
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
Our read: The Cannibal Man (1972) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller · psychological entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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