sddavis63 Some people call this a cult classic. Usually that means cheap and bad, and in that sense this movie is what you'd expect. For me, this was a curiosity - a movie filmed in the small town in which I now live. And while the town has changed a lot since 1973, there are still parts of it I recognized. But aside from satisfying that little bit of local-pride curiosity, there was nothing about this to get very excited about.We discover from the start that the fictional town of Farnhamville has a problem. There's a weird Reverend who seems to control three pretty young girls, and they have a thing for cannibalism. Into the town for some time away stumble a young couple (played by Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) who get caught up in the "horror."As you'd expect from a movie starring Levy and Martin, this movie often tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to get some laughs out of viewers, and when it's failing to do that it's not really that frightening. It does have a fair bit of gore, and several totally unnecessary topless scenes featuring those three pretty young girls. It also has a story that never really makes much sense, and with acting that was - even from Levy and Martin - mostly atrocious, it was painful and at times impossible to stick with this.Cult classic? Yup, if by that you mean it's so bad that it's hard to figure out why anyone would want to take the time to watch it. (2/10)

morrison-dylan-fan Talking to my dad about DVDs that he had recently picked up,I was surprised to learn that he had gotten hold of a forgotten Horror Comedy by the director of Ghostbusters,which led to me getting ready to meet the Cannibal Girls.The plot:Wanting to spend some quality time with each other, Clifford Sturges & Gloria Wellaby decide to visit a small town for a romantic weekend.Booking in the sole motel in the village,Sturges and Wellaby are told about an old town legend,which says that a major restaurant in the town is cursed,and that 3 cannibal women used to live there.Being curious about this myth,the couple decide to pay a visit to the place.Being welcomed in by restaurant owner Rev. Alex St. John,Sturges and Wellaby soon discover that a special meal has been prepared for them.View on the film:Taking just 9 days to film, (with an extra day being used for pick- ups!)co-story writer/(along with Robert Sandler & Daniel Goldberg)director Ivan Reitman matches the films splashes of blood with stylish fade ins/fade outs which create a startling dream atmosphere.For what was only his second film,Reitman impressively shows that he is already starting to pick up one of the major themes of his future work,with each of the stunning,naked cannibal girls being counted by she & nervous geeky men.Using the story by Reitman/Sandler and Goldberg as a bare outline,the cast show a good level of improve skills which keep the title away from every drying out,with Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy (who says that he spent most of the shooting time thinking about the free food & drink that he would get at the hotel later that night!) giving Sturges and Wellaby a real sweet charm,as they both find out that dinner is about to be served.

Boba_Fett1138 It's amazing how many trash Eugene Levy starred in during his early career. He is now a well known comedy actors, mostly thanks to his role in the American Pie movies but it's quite amazing that he ever became a big actor once you see the stuff he starred in at the beginning of his career.It's also even more amazing to think that this movie is directed by Ivan Reitman, the man who later brought us the movies "Stripes", "Ghostbusters", "Dave" and the more recent comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend". Only his trademark comedy style can be seen back in this movie. Furthermore this movie doesn't show much of Reitman's talent, which is also do of course to the movie its really bad script (also partly written by Ivan Reitman himself) and its obvious very limited money and resources. The movie lacks some good editing cuts and camera position among many other things. The movie looks like a bad '70's porn, without all of the sex (but with the nudity). It's a real amateur like looking movie.Despite having comedy elements in it, this movie above all is a serious horror attempt from Ivan Reitman. Luckily he soon discovered his talent more lays at the comedy genre, or else we wouldn't had ever had the fine and classic comedies he made later in his career. But how can you even really regard this movie as an horror film, when it has so little gore (well, at least for a cannibal flick) in it and no scares at all.The movie basically has a non-existent story that is hard to follow because it just doesn't make an awful lot of sense all. You'll have a hard time understanding when the movie is in flashback mode and when it's set in real time and what's real and what's not. It's the sort of script that makes you wonder why they even decided to shoot it in the first place. It's a confusingly bad made movie, that often makes you go; 'What's going on here?!'. This movie is not at all what you could and should expect from a cannibal flick.It's just not an awfully interesting movie to watch, since too little interesting is ever happening in it. It's not even interesting as a study of an early Ivan Reitman movie. There is really no reason why you should ever watch this bad '70's flick.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

BaronBl00d The film is about a couple, played by young Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin in their pre-SCTV days, that rent a room in a small town called Farnhamville. It is here in this rather desolated, out-of-the-way town that the two hear about an old legend about three cannibal girls and their atrocious murdering. It turns out, of course, that the legend is in fact reality and not so old as explained. The film has some bright spots including some humorous touches added by the performances of the two leads. Reitman, yes that is right...Reitman the director of such blockbusters as Ghostbusters, creates a pretty good atmosphere of bleakness especially in the town scenes.Considering the budget used, this is a pretty good cheap thriller high on atmosphere and low on plot. The story is weird...to put it bluntly. There is a goodly amount of gore and red blood as well to contribute to the atmosphere. The sets are cheap, the film quality is cheap, the acting unknown even to this day aside from the two leads, and the story is inane. Nonetheless I can think of worse ways to waste 90 minutes, so if you get the chance...take a peek and see if your curiosity is peaked.