Cannibal | 
| Director: Marian Dora
Actors: Carsten Frank, Tobias Sickert, Victor Brandl, Manoush
Studio: TLA
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 48440
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TLADUN1022D
UPC: 828221010352
EAN: 0828221010352
ASIN: B000JJSJ82
Theatrical Release Date: December 5, 2006
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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Studio: Tla Releasing Release Date: 09/02/2008 Run time: 72 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Gruesome Love April 8, 2007
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
"Cannibal"
Gruesome Love
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
Some of you should remember the story of a German [...] guy who had a strange [...]--cannibalism. His story has been made into the movie "Cannibal" and it is a gruesome tale. When I put the movie into my DVD player I was not sure what to expect. I am not one who usually likes gore but I have to say this movie was an adventure for me. The movie s well done if this is your choice of film genre but it was not an easy movie to watch.
The story is about Armin Meiwes, a 42 year old German computer expert and Bernd Brandes, a 43 year old engineer. Armin uses his computer to search for someone to help him live out his most deep desire---eating another human being. Eventually after posting ads on the internet he finds Bernd and the two form a bond. Bernd shows how he feels for Armin at their first meeting when he tells him, "I'm your flesh". What ensues is a love story-a truly gross love story. With very little dialog, this strong movie shows what transpires between the two men, with lots of sex and even more blood.
The film can de divided into three acts--the hunt, the seduction, and the consumption--as it looks deeply at sex as predation and aligning it with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. I do not think that I can say that this is entertainment but the movie does work. The two men obviously understood each other's desires and the interaction between them seems to be genuine and what makes such a horrible subject so interesting to watch. In my opinion this is the ultimate cannibal movie. It looks at what makes a person desire to want to eat another person and it does so unflinchingly. It looks at both sides of the picture--what drives a man to want to eat another one as well as what kind of weird desire does one who wants to be eaten have.
There is a lot of blood in the film and the camera lingers on it and the actors give highly believable performances. The movie shows no sympathy for the actions of the men but neither is it judgmental. It is simply a recording of the affair and although the relationship between the men is bizarre to say the least, it is very believable.
It bears repeating that this is not a movie for everyone. If you are weak of stomach then I do not recommend that you see it but if you like this kind of thing, this is an absolutely amazing recreation of what happened when the "Rotenberg Cannibal" made his foray into history as one of the strangest love stories ever "executed". Albeit fiction in regards to the meeting of the men, it is based on true events.
Since there is little dialog (maybe 15 lines total), the movie depends upon visuals and atmosphere. The scenes that lead up to the eventual gore scenes are long but this helps build tension for what is to come and come it does. Be warned though that there is a great deal of male frontal nudity.
One scene that I shall probably never forget is when Meiwes cut off Bernds's [...] and fried it for both to eat. It is gruesome it idea and to see it is something I thought I would never see on the screen. Some of the scenes of rough [....] love are also hard to see. In some ways this movie can be regarded as a masterpiece in that it is almost like watching a documentary of something that really happened and the entire story s told with nothing left unsaid. As shocking and appalling as "Cannibal" is, it is also intriguing. If it were not a true story, no one would ever believe it happened. The movie is not an exploitation film but it is a powerful rendering of one of the sickest incidents in the history of mankind. I think the most compelling part of the film is when Bernd confesses that he is the "flesh" and we see that even though he is the victim, this is what he chose to be.
I may be called crazy but I have to admit that this is a brilliant film. While not for everyone, those who see it will be amazed at the honesty in which the story is shown.
 an absolute must-watch for gore-junkies. December 28, 2006
jessie (Gloucester, MA)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This film was atmospherically stunning! The special effects were near perfect, and I havn't been more disturbed by a film in years.
The actors were wonderful, the dubbing worked quite well, and in certain parts it even look like they've used slide film.
I am by far one of the biggest horror/ gore junkies I know, and I have to say this is the best film i've seen yet, from unearth films.
The director did an amazing job, and I can't understand why the last person would give such a bad review other than ignorance and perhaps feeling uncomfortable during the homosexual parts.
This Takes the Cake abd EATS IT! January 7, 2007
S. A DUNN (Chehalis, WA United States)
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
"Cannibal" has to be the most macabre thing I ever viewed. It goes beyond gross, vile and stupid. It explores every twist and "kink" of a sick obsession of the human cannibal and his all to willing prey. As my partner Eddie said: "That movie strips the soul out of man and proves he is nothing but a bunch of MEAT! I feel disgusted that all I am is slabs of meat!"
This movie is a true horror flick March 26, 2007
Mark (Madison, Wisconsin)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
It has taken me awhile to write this review because I was so shocked by this movie after I saw it. It has stuck with me for the past week and it is probably a movie that I will never forget. What makes it so scarey is that it is based on a true story and is very factual. Be warned: this is a very gory movie and some of the scenes are very graphic for the gore. This movie also doesn't have much for dialog, but it really doesn't need dialog for the story being told. If you want a truely scarey horror flick, then see this movie. I do highly recommend it.
 Humanity is an ugly thing - Great, we get it. December 12, 2006
Mr.Snowblood
6 out of 22 found this review helpful
The majority of the times I go into these films with no intention whatsoever. I'm not a gorehound, but I'm willing to give mindless horror films a chance; it just so happens that more often so than not they fail horribly, this is just another example, one more title to put among the "Reasons modern horror does nothing for me."
I GUESS I can appreciate the attempt to keep it to true to life as possible, but it just got SO redudant so fast, HEY LOOK MANJUNK, MORE MANJUNK HOW SHOCKING AND OUT OF THE ORDINARY, OH NO HE'S CUTTING OFF HIS JOHNSON, OOO, GROSS, that I had to fight from slamming my head against the wall.
The acting, what little there was, was truly terrible.
I guess with the vast majority of the film being a, more or less, "silent" film, in the sense that Dr. Caligari is silent, but with accompanying music, they were trying to create SOME sort of atmosphere, added with the dusty rooms and the unshaved bodies of the lead roles, but again, it failed totally.
The gore wasn't impressive, human beings do not bleed bright red, I thought we learned this in the 70's. I mean, I love the Italian horror films that are soaked in bright red blood, but when trying to present a serious, realistic film do not go in that direction.
The golden age of German film making is dead, gone, it's only survivor being Werner Herzog, just as the Russian film making scene is empty, and I can see why with schlock like this being shoved out of it's bowels that no one in their right mind cares anymore about anything that leaves it's immediate borders.
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