History Main / CannibalClan

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has several: The trope is played straight by [[spoiler:the residents of Andale]], but a less conventional example is the Family, a group of people suffering from some form of cannibalism-inducing psychological disorder who started acting like [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in order to keep their hunger in check. The "Point Lookout" DLC also introduces the "Swampfolk"; several new enemy classes (Scrapper, Creeper, Brawler, Tracker, Bruiser) made up of grotesquely deformed cannibal hillbillies, the result of two hundred plus years of inbreeding and radiation contamination.

* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'': One of the fun things about the Sawney Bean clan was their rumored practice of [[GenuineHumanHide wearing the skins of their victims to make masks from their faces]].

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' has the Baker family, who capture protagonist Ethan and attempt to feed him [[ImAHumanitarian dinner]] in a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''. Also, they are nigh-immortal due to having a regenerative factor from whatever's infected them.

* Manga/{{Radiant}}: The Mesnie is a family of sorcerers that eat other [[OurMagesAreDifferent sorcerers]] with useful [[SuperPowerRussianRoulette infections]] to gain advantageous abilities and slow their aging.

* Manga/{{Radiant}}: The Mesnie is a family of sorcerers that eat other [[OurWizardsAreDifferent sorcerers]] with useful [[RussianSuperPowerRoulette infections]] to gain advantageous abilities and slow their aging.

Compare TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether. Also see CannibalLarder, which these characters often keep.

* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Eat Me," the MadScientist Kaarvok has managed to create a cannibal clan out of the Peacekeepers assigned to guard him through judicious use of his [[TwinMaker handheld cloning machine]]: after twenty or thirty clonings each, [[CloneDegeneration all of them are incurably insane]] and all too happy to accept Kaarvok as the de facto head of the "family." Unlike most clans, though, these ones are quite happy to [[MonstrousCannibalism feed on each other]] if the need arises; even Kaarvok can't quite tell the difference between food and family.

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The Benders" is about a family of {{Serial Killer}}s who call on a lot of the associated tropes. Whether they're actually cannibals is left ambiguous. It's based on the real case of the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders Bloody Benders]]", and it's one of the few episodes of ''Supernatural'' in which [[{{Mundanger}} nothing supernatural happens]].
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', "Countrycide" -- Unusually gruesome treatment of the concept for British TV. [[spoiler: And much to the main characters' horror, there's [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial]] about them.]]

* The video game ''Animation/DinosaurAdventure'' (actually a movie released by Dingo Pictures), some of the survivors of a volcanic eruption have resorted to eating other dinos (pronounced "deenos"). The leader claims that they get stronger every day because of this.

** "Home" -- The emphasis here was on the inbreeding, with the cannibalism just sort of a side-note.
** It was a major focus in "Our Town" (no, not that ''Theatre/OurTown'').

* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' has [[spoiler:the St. John family, consisting of Brenda St. John and her sons Andy and Danny]]. They invite Lee and the group around their farm, supposedly to swap food for gas, and eventually trick the group into thinking they could stay in their safe and well fortified home for good. Lee and Kenny begin to have doubts about their trustworthiness after [[spoiler:Andy and Danny's]] increasingly suspicious behaviour, and Lee eventually discovers a bloody slaughter room supposedly used for the farm's cows. Despite this, their starvation causes them to accept a meal from the family after they invite them to dinner. As you may guess, the 'BBQ dinner' they offer is actually human flesh; namely, the legs of [[spoiler:your friend Mark]]. If you're not quick enough, Clementine eats some. After Lee discovers and confronts the [[spoiler:St. Johns]] on the truth, [[spoiler:Brenda]] reveals their plan to slowly kill off and eat the rest of the group - they've killed and eaten humans before, and apparently traded some of the flesh to bandits for protection.

Unlike the CannibalTribe, who are HollywoodNatives eating people because that's their weird and foreign culture, the Cannibal Clan will usually represent an ''intra''national, rather than ''inter''national, cultural split. The classic Cannibal Clan will be [[DeepSouth deranged hicks]] terrorizing the CityMouse protagonists. They don't exist on the dark corners of the map where [[HereThereBeDragons there be dragons]], but in isolated pockets of savagery in the heart of what's supposed to be civilization.

Compare TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether. Also see HillbillyHorrors, with which this trope frequently overlaps, and CannibalLarder, which these characters often keep.