10 Delicious Italian Cannibal Movies, Ranked

"Vile, offensive, and shocking, the Italian cannibal boom of the 70s and 80s grew from ground tilled by the Mondo film--documentary features purported to show real violence and strange rituals from cultures around the world. The cannibal film took this desire to see "real" violence and applied it to a narrative structure, resulting in a subgenre more reviled than any other with grand Guignol-style simulated gore and actual animal violence.Exploitative and morally troublesome (many, if not most of the "cannibals" are played by actual tribes from the regions in which they were filmed) these films are still masterpieces of style and guerilla filmmaking, and often at least make some attempt at social commentary, criticizing the lily-hued interlopers who meet their gruesome ends. Adore them or detest them, the Italian cannibal subgenre is one of the most extreme and interesting pockets of film history."