History Main / CannibalTribe

* NotVeryPrettyNowIsHe

* HumanSacrifice

* Revenge

* The 1973 movie Raw Meat features a cannibal tribe hiding in the London subway system... by the time the movie starts, only two extremely deranged members remain.

* BeatStillMyHeart: In the middle of[[BMovie (Nudo e selvaggio Massacre in Dinosaur Valley; Cannibal Ferox 2)]], Betty follows John but gets caught in quicksand. John makes half-hearted efforts to rescue her until spears and blow-arrows start flying. He runs off screaming at what he perceives as "Gooks" until the natives bring him down and the native chief cuts out his heart and eats it.

* HumanSacrifice: In the 1985 Film: [[BMovie (Nudo e selvaggio Massacre in Dinosaur Valley; Cannibal Ferox 2)]], The Cannibal Natives get the two girls. Kevin then follows the captive women to the native village where native children torment them and the native woman strip down and ready the two woman in native womans clothing for sacrifice. A Summoned Native Shaman wearing a triceratops skull tears the flesh of Belinda, and as he turns to Eva, Kevin heaves a quickly-made bomb in their midst. He shoots a batch of natives and flees with the women. They take a canoe down the river and escape a net-trap. The natives stop pursuing when Kevin shoots the Native chief.

* VirginSacrifice: Belinda and Eva, wearing loin cloths in [[BMovie (Nudo e selvaggio Massacre in Dinosaur Valley; Cannibal Ferox 2)]] (1985).

* The most well-known and successful of these films was ''Cannibal Holocaust'' in 1980. [[{{No Animals Were Harmed}}]] It is also infamous for scenes of gratuitous animal death, among other things.

* The civilized characters can be distinguished from one another, on a purely visual level. The savages are a collective mentality and rarely is one elevated to any position of significance in the film (the most notable exception would be Me Lai's character in Last Cannibal World).

* The civilized characters can be distinguished from one another, on a purely visual level. The savages are a collective mentality and rarely is one elevated to any position of significance in the film (the most notable exception would Me Me Lai's character in Last Cannibal World).

* HumanSacrifice: In the 1985 Film: [[BMovie (Nudo e selvaggio Massacre in Dinosaur Valley; Cannibal Ferox 2)]], The Cannibal Natives get the two girls. Betty follows John but gets caught in quicksand. John makes half-hearted efforts to rescue her until spears and blow-arrows start flying. He runs off screaming at what he perceives as "Gooks" until the natives bring him down and the chief cuts out his heart and eats it. Kevin then follows the captive women to the native village where native children torment them and the native woman strip down and ready the two woman for sacrifice. A Summoned Native Shaman wearing a triceratops skull tears the flesh of Belinda, and as he turns to Eva, Kevin heaves a quickly-made bomb in their midst. He shoots a batch of natives and flees with the women. They take a canoe down the river and escape a net-trap. The natives stop pursuing when Kevin shoots the Native chief.

* ''CannibalHolocaust'', 1980 -- Upon the film?s release, {{Murder Dot Com}} the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors murdered for the camera. Their names were cleared when they arranged for the ?dead? actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast'' appropriated their ?{{mockumentary}}? style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''. it's still remains a {{Snuff Film}} to this day. It also has about everything else: {{Apocalyptic Log}}, {{In Universe Camera}}, {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}, & {{You Fail Film School Forever}}, plus {{Did Not Do the Research}}.

* ''The Mountain of the Cannibal God'' 1978

* ''Cannibal Holocaust'' 1980 -- Upon the film?s release, {{Murder Dot Com}} the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors murdered for the camera. Their names were cleared when they arranged for the ?dead? actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast'' appropriated their ?{{mockumentary}}? style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''. it's still remains a {{Snuff Film}} to this day. It also has about everything else: {{Apocalyptic Log}}, {{In Universe Camera}}, {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}, & {{You Fail Film School Forever}}, plus {{Did Not Do the Research}}.

* ''Cannibal Ferox'' 1981 -- the natives capture two men who previously exploited them, along with three college students who have fallen in with them. The natives humiliate and kill all but one of them in slow, ritualistic fashion Hence the official & alternative movie title: ''Make Them Die Slowly''.

From the mid 1970?s until around the mid 1980?s, and in 2003: A slew of chiefly Italian films were made that are known as ?cannibal films? and are considered to form one of the most extreme subgenres of horror. The premise for every film involves ?civilized?, predominantly white protagonists venturing into remote South American/Asian jungles and encountering tribes of dark-skinned human-eaters. The tropes for these films are quite consistent, possibly because most of the films essentially ripped off one of three cannibal films that enjoyed financial success. These tropes include:

* Once ?contact? has been established between the outsiders the natives, always because the outsiders have been captured through an act of stupidity, the outsiders are forced to witness an assortment of rituals conducted by the natives, all of which involve blood and something or someone being cut open. The lucky victim is generally not of any specific type; human victims whether male or female, civilized or savage, have all gone under the spear in these films. These sequences will often also include the protagonist/s suffering humiliating subjugation by the natives.
* The civilized characters can be distinguished from one another, on a purely visual level. The savages are a collective mentality and rarely is one elevated to any position of significance in the film (the most notable exception would Me Me Lai?s character in Last Cannibal World).

* {{Gorn}}: All Cannibal Films in 1972-1888 & 2003, had lots of it but only one: ''Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death'' in 1989.

* ''Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death'' 1989 is a satire of those kinds of film that is [[OrSoIHeard apparently]] BetterThanItSounds. It [[MoralGuardians had to be]] billed as ''Piranha Women etc etc'' in the UK to avoid association with the genre.

* ''Cannibal Holocaust'' 1980 -- Upon the film?s release, {{Murder Dot Com}} the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors murdered for the camera. Their names were cleared when they arranged for the ?dead? actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast'' appropriated their ?{{mockumentary}}? style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''. it's still remains a {{Snuff Film}} to this day. It also has about everyting else: {{Apocalyptic Log}}, {{First Person Camera}}, {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}, & {{You Fail Film School Forever}}, plus {{Did Not Do the Research}}.

From the mid 1970?s until around the mid 1980?s, and in 2003: A slew of chiefly Italian films were made that are known as ?cannibal films? and are considered to form one of the most extreme subgenres of horror. The premise for every film involves ?civilized?, predominantly white protagonists venturing into remote South American/Asian jungles and encountering tribes of dark-skinned human-eaters. The tropes for these films are quite consistent, possibly because most of the films essentially ripped off one of three cannibal films that enjoyed financial success. These tropes include:
* The triumph of the white man (possibly the only brand of horror films where guys actually have a fighting chance, provided, of course, that they are white). This triumph can come in the form of successfully escaping the jungle or establishing a positive relationship with the savages, using gizmos and measured hand gestures.
* Once ?contact? has been established between the outsiders the natives, always because the outsiders have been captured through an act of stupidity, the outsiders are forced to witness an assortment of rituals conducted by the natives, all of which involve blood and something or someone being cut open. The lucky victim is generally not of any specific type; human victims whether male or female, civilized or savage, have all gone under the spear in these films. These sequences will often also include the protagonist/s suffering humiliating subjugation by the natives.
* The civilized characters can be distinguished from one another, on a purely visual level. The savages are a collective mentality and rarely is one elevated to any position of significance in the film (the most notable exception would Me Me Lai?s character in Last Cannibal World).
* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Civilized non-white characters die first and never lightly.]]
* Cannibals sympathetic to the protagonists live long enough to get them out of danger before falling prey to their vengeful fellows.
* ChasedByAngryNatives
* Civilized women are typically sleazy, whiney bimbos who often serve as {{Ms Fanservice}} (cannibal films do not stray far from standard horror). If they do have an attitude, it can be solved with a good slap.
* FantasticRacism
* {{Gorn}}: All Cannibal Films in 1972-1888 & 2003, had lots of it but only one: ''Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death'' in 1989.
* GroinAttack
* MadeOfPlasticine
* NationalGeographicNudity
* ValuesDissonance

* Interracial relations between a native and one of the protagonists. Typically the native is female, but either way the sex is rarely consensual.
* Characters played by Ivan Rassimov and Me Me Lai. They appeared in three films in the genre, more than any other actor. Me Me Lai's characters were native women with, um, breast implants.
* Sadly, almost every cannibal film made in this period features animal cruelty either from wildlife footage or in scenes created for the film. This aspect of the films both cements their infamy as a subgenre and their notoriety as going further down the path of moral decadence than most other horror films.

* The most well-known and successful of these films was ''Cannibal Holocaust'' in 1980. [[{{No Animals Were Harmed}}]] It is also infamous for scenes of gratuitous animal death, among other things.


Compare CannibalClan, which is more or less the inverse of this trope, where the cannibals are typically white-trash types suffering from an advanced case of backwoods degeneracy.
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!!Examples
* ''The Man From Deep River'' 1972 -- was the first Italian cannibal film and introduced the notions of white people being trapped in cannibal territory, exotic rituals, white-native sex and Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov.
* ''Last Cannibal World'' 1977 -- four plane passengers are stranded in a jungle, the brown-skinned members of the group die quickly, the main character is stripped, fondled and urinated on and watches the natives kill first one of their own using bull ants and then a crocodile. He escapes using Me Me Lai, who helps him survive before being eaten by the pursuing tribe.
* ''Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals'' 1977
* ''The Mountain of the Cannibal God'' 1978
* ''Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals'' 1978
* ''Primitives'' 1979
* ''Cannibal Holocaust'' 1980 -- Upon the film?s release, {{Murder Dot Com}} the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors murdered for the camera. Their names were cleared when they arranged for the ?dead? actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast'' appropriated their ?{{mockumentary}}? style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''. it's still remains a {{Snuff Film}} to this day. It also has about everyting else: {{Apocalyptic Log}}, {{First Person Camera}}, {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}, & {{You Fail Film School Forever}}, plus {{Did Not Do the Research}}.
* ''Eaten Alive!'' 1980
* ''White Cannibal Queen'' 1980
* ''Devil Hunter'' 1980
* ''Cannibal Ferox'' 1981 -- the natives capture two men who previously exploited them, along with three college students who have fallen in with them. The natives humiliate and kill all but one of them in slow, ritualistic fashion Hence the official & alternative movie title: ''Make Them Die Slowly''.
* ''Cannibal Terror'' 1981
* ''Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story'' 1985
* ''Cannibal Ferox 2: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
* ''The Green Inferno'' 1988: By that time, film director Antonio Climati was considered to have put an end to the genre in 1988 with the film Natura Contro, which is also known as an unofficial sequel to Cannibal Holocaust.
* ''Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death'' 1989 is a satire of those kinds of film that is [[OrSoIHeard apparently]] BetterThanItSounds. It [[MoralGuardians had to be]] billed as ''Piranha Women etc etc'' in the UK to avoid association with the genre.
* There's a CannibalTribe in {{Nation}}, but aside from being terrifying raiders who take human prisoners for slaves (and dinner, of course), they're really quite reasonable... and not nearly as terrifying as [[CompleteMonster First Mate Cox]].
* Did you know? In 2003, director Bruno Mattei Directed & created 2 straight-to-video release Cannibal Films such as "Cannibal Ferox 3: Land of Death" & "Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Begining a.k.a. Mondo Cannibale". In Secret, It's the official sequel to the Original Cannibal Holocaust Movie. Both films are a Mix of Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, Predator, plus every other cannibal films from the 70s & 80s imaginiable & imagine they're thrown into not one but two giant blenders. Once that's done, you've got yourself 2 Demonic & Tainted Cannibal Films Forged from the Blackest/Darkest Pits of Hell.

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