Im A Humanitarian / Live-Action Films

---

• In The Addams Family movies the family's Pretentious Latin Motto translates in "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us". At first it just seems a boast... Except that in The Addams Family Values the school camp counselors try to subdue Wednesday and Pugsley, and they're last seen being roasted alive, with Wednesday's accomplices waiting for them to be cooked.
• Alive is entirely based around a rugby team being forced to eat their dead teammates and family members after their plane crashes high in the Andes and they learn no rescue will ever come.
• American Psycho: "I ate some of their brains... and I tried to cook a little."
• Italian horror film Anthropophagus is about a group of people who end up stranded on an island with Nikos, a man who lost his mind after being forced to devour his wife and son to survive a shipwreck, and now eats anyone who comes to his island. At the end, the hunger for flesh has overtaken Nikos to the point that, on being disemboweled with a pickax, he attempts to eat his own intestines.
• Played straight and then subverted in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, Master of Disguise Sam Smith infiltrates a group of the eponymous tomatoes and is enjoying a meal with them... until he realizes just what the tomatoes are eating. In a later scene, he's back to being casual about the matter (he is a master infiltrator, after all), until he forgets and asks someone to pass the ketchup.
• Auntie Lees Meat Pies was all about this trope. Guess what the main ingredient is in those meat pies.
• Fat Bastard from Austin Powers, "Listen up, sunny Jim, I ate a BABY!"
• The title character of the movie Lisa, Lisa, also known as Axe!, turns one of her tormentors into soup and feeds it to another tormentor.
• In Babysitter Wanted (2008), Sam will only eat the flesh of innocent young women (and prefers the latissimus dorsi).
• The parody Disaster Movie The Big Bus contains the immortal line "Jeeze! You eat one foot and they call you a cannibal!"
• Black Panther: M'Baku threatens to feed Everett Ross to his children for speaking out of turn. Then he chuckles and reveals that he is joking. He and his family are actually vegetarian (except for fish). ^note  This makes them pescatarians, which technically count as vegetarians
• In The Book of Eli cannibalism is wide-spread. One way to prove that you're trustworthy is to show your hands are steady; implying that many people are suffering from kuru disease.
• The Butchers: Albert Fish and Jeffery Dahmer are both cannibals. Fish is destroyed before he an opportunity to demonstrate this part of his personality, but Dahmer takes several bites out of Kip while fighting him, and later captures Brian and is preparing to butcher and eat him.
• In the film Cannibal Apocalypse, a group of Vietnam POW's contract a virus that gives them a taste for human flesh. After returning to the U.S., they spread the virus to anyone they bite.
• Cannibal Girls is a 1973 horror comedy staring SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin. Notable for having a "warning bell" (before gory scenes) gimmick in its original release, and appearing as the in-universe movie in a scene in Ghostbusters II.
• Cannibal! The Musical, a musical about legendary Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer.
• Cloud Atlas: Cannibalism, both literal and figurative, is a running motif through most of the stories. A few examples: In the first story Ewing is afraid the Moriori will eat him, and Dr. Goose remarks, "The weak are meat, the strong do eat." Cavendish jokingly references Soylent Green. In Sonmi's story Fabricants are recycled into food and other Fabricants, and the last story has the Kona, a tribe of outright cannibals.
• The villains of The Colony (2013) subsist entirely on human meat.
• At the end of Compulsion (2013), it is obvious that Amy (Heather Graham) has killed, butchered, cooked, and eaten Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss). Det. Reynolds (Joe Mantegna) figures out what Amy has done only after she had served him the last few pieces of evidence. The weirdest part is that it was Saffron's idea, and she asked Amy to do it.
• The final scene of Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
• In Cradle of Fear, the Serial Killer Kemper turned to cannibalism to dispose of the bodies of his victims. He was eventually caught when his appetite for killing outstripped his appetite for human flesh. The bodies built up and the smell aroused the suspicion of his neighbour.
• Dark Angel: The Ascent: The demons in Hell are not averse to anthropophagy. Veronica later gives some leftovers of the evil people she killed to her dog, and prepares some of it for her oblivious love interest Max.
• In Deadman, Cole Wilson has the reputation of eating his parents. He later feasts on human flesh again.
• Deadtime Stories: Volume 2: In "The Gorge", Donna and Craig eat Gary's leg after they amputate it. Driven crazy by hungry, they then go on to devour Gary. And, after they are rescued, Donna finds her self still compelled to consume human flesh.
• In Death Factory, Alexa eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her victims.
• The French black comedy Delicatessen deals with cannibalism in a post-apocalyptic 1950's France.
• The Descent has technical cannibalism — a couple of characters were eaten by monsters who were evolved cavemen themselves.
• The opening scene of Doctor Zhivago has Alec Guinness' character reflecting upon the cost of the Russian Revolution against its benefits: "We've come very far, very fast.... Yes, but do you know what it cost? There were children in those days who lived off human flesh. Did you know that?"
• In Dog Soldiers a group of British soldiers on a training exercise find an abandoned cabin, inside one of the soldiers finds a stew cooking on the stove. After eating a bowl he comments that he doesn't know what it is but it "Tastes like pork." Later they discover that the missing residents are anthropophagous werewolves. Whether the werewolves themselves are cannibals is debatable (half-cannibal?).
• In Doomsday, the guy who played one of the flesh-eating monsters in The Descent now gets to go the full hog — he prances about onstage singing a song by the Fine Young Cannibals, then tosses little plastic plates to his followers, cooks a guy, and starts handing out pieces of charred corpse.
• In Dune (1984), human flesh is not eaten, but water is so precious, the dead are cremated and the water collected and distributed for drinking.
• Dying Breed involves a bunch of young people stumbling upon a remote community in Tasmania where humans are on the menu, to emulate the behaviour of the convict who founded the place. The kicker is that the Tasmanian state government is trying to use the film to attract tourists.
• In Eat The Rich, a disgruntled waiter violently takes over the restaurant that fired him with the help of his pseudo-anarchist accomplices, and start serving minced human flesh (with a side of chips).
• In the black comedy Eating Raoul, conservative couple Paul and Mary Bland systematically lure and murder "swingers" — at first to sell their corpses to a pet food company, but at the end...
• The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein: Amongst her other perversions, Melissa feasts on human flesh. To reward her, Cagliostro gives her the keys to the cells and allows her to feast on the prisoners.
• Jan Švankmajer's film Food involves a part called 'Dinner'. A man pours condiments all over an unseen food item and then proceeds to bang nails into his wooden left hand to hold in place a fork. Guess what is on the plate?
• The Funhouse Massacre: Jeffrey "Animal The Cannibal" Rameses not only serves his murder victims to people as food, he also likes eating it himself. He can be seen in the security booth, eating the security guard at one point in the movie.
• The Danish black comedy The Green Butchers (De Grønne Slagtere) is about a pair of young entrepreneurs who fall ass-backwards into this trope. Having to dispose of the body when they accidentally kill a man, they chop it up and sell as chicken rolls in their butcher shop. They keep it up because they believe people love the taste of human. In the end, they switch back to chicken and people like that even more. It turns out it was the marinade people liked so much. Human meat has an unpleasant aftertaste, but chicken is just plain delicious. Incidentally, the human butcher is played by Mads Mikkelsen, who later portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the TV series Hannibal.
• Halloween at Aunt Ethel's: In one scene, Aunt Ethel is boiling a human head. While she does so, she takes off a piece of flesh from it and eats it.
• Lillith and her clan do this to teenagers in Hansel and Gretel.
• In The Hide, hide this text Roy kills his wife and her lover and throws the bodies in a chicken grinding machine; later he uses the paste as sandwich filling.
• The Hills Have Eyes (1977) involves a clan of inbred mutants who are not above consuming those unfortunate enough to end up within their territory.
• Hostel Part II has one scene where a middle-aged man is torturing Miroslav (Whitney's love interest) by slowly cutting away the meat on his leg and eating it at a nearby table. He's also played by Ruggero Deodato, the director of Cannibal Holocaust.
• The Hug: Pandory is revealed to have eaten Aiden when Aiden's hand bursts from Pandory's mouth.
• Innerspace: Of the unintentional type, but Tuck does use Jack's stomach as an emergency impromptu weapon, and the miniaturized bad guy does end up digested.
• Jack the Giant Slayer: Whilst the giants can eat animals, and presumably vegetables, they like human flesh even more and are shown devouring people several times throughout the film.
• The Last Supper, a 2005 Japanese film, which revolves around a plastic surgeon and Serial Killer hiding a dark secret - his appetite for human flesh, especially the skin. He starts off by frequenting seedy, back-alley restaurants run by cannibals, but later decides getting ingredients of his own.
• Toyed with in the film version of Logan's Run. "The Box" is a large freezer which freezes animals and Runners — people — for use as food.
• In Kick-Ass 2, it's mentioned that Husky Russkie Mother Russia literally ate her cellmate alive during her time in a gulag simply for looking at her.
• The Lone Ranger (2013): Butch Cavendish who eats the hearts of his victims. He does this to the title character's brother. Probably another reason Tonto thinks he's a Wendigo.
• In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, one of the orcs is killed by an Uruk-hai leader for trying to eat Merry and Pippin against orders. The leader looks down and announces "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"
  • This is in direct contrast to the book, where an accusation of Orc cannibalism is seen as a horrible slur (Though this may not apply to Uruk-hai eating Morgul orcs.)
• Mad Max: Fury Road: The head of Gas Town is named The People Eater. While this certainly applies metaphorically, it is unclear if its literal. His feet are grossly swollen, a possible side effect of cannibalism. On the other hand, that's also a symptom of gout.
• The kung-fu wuxia movie The Magic Blade has a villain named The Ghost Granny, who appears to be a kindly, benevolent old grandma running a food stall, but actually poisons her patrons and cooks them for her dinner.
• In The Matrix, the machines liquefy the dead to feed the living. Therefore if you live inside the Matrix, you're an (involuntary and unknowing) cannibal. And it Tastes Like Chicken.
• Les Misérables (2012) shows that Thenardier uses human parts among the meat products served as sausages at his inn.
• Mr Jones, what uninvited guests were served during the holodomor.
• Bizarrely, the film version of My Favorite Martian had one of the good guys cheerfully eat someone. The sweet natured love interest (played by Daryl Hannah) temporarily gets turned into an alien monster and swallows a luckless human mook whole, before turning back in a beautiful blonde. She doesn't seem all that fazed by the experience.
• In The Night of a Thousand Cats, whichever parts of his victims he doesn't feed to the cats, Hugo eats himself.
• Most zombie movies following Romero's seminal works Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978) involve the animated dead eating the living.
• Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight: At one point in the movie, one of the twins chops an arm off Daniel's corpse and eats one of the fingers.
• In Parents, a young boy discovers that his folks have been serving human flesh as "leftovers" all along.
• The island natives that show up near the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest kill and eat their chiefs, who they perceive as a god bound in human form.
  • Also, prior to that, Will encounters a Jamaican on his search for Jack, who mentions "delicious long pork".
  • Worse, it's the exact same Jamaican who takes him to the island.
• One of the villains faced in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy 2 is a tribe of cannibals who aim to eat the Commander and his team, and later Wolffy, Wolnie, and Weslie.
• Portrait In Crystal: The Three Devils have no qualms about eating human flesh, and they are in fact ready to cut up the captured Damsel in Distress, Jade, alive for feasting, even slicing up four pieces of her flesh and about to eat it.
• Raja Bersiong, a 1968 Malaysian film based on an old folk tale (which is pretty much a Gender Flipped variant on the Elizabeth Báthory mythos) revolves around a Sultan who starts developing a craving for flesh after tasting human blood, to the point where he starts hiring a private army to abduct virgins for his meals. He also begin inexplicably growing fangs (no reasons are provided either in the film or the original story, he just did) to embrace his barbaric nature, until he's eventually overthrown.
• In Ravenous (1999), eating human meat is revealed to give you an incredible surge of strength and awareness, drawing on the Native American Wendigo myth. The main villain is addicted to human flesh.
• In Raw, the formerly vegetarian Justine starts out just liking meat in general once she finally eats it, but eating her sister's accidentally cut-off finger awakens her taste for human flesh. It turns out It Runs in the Family.
• The preferred food of the experimental reel film in the short film Recorded Live.
• The Redwood Massacre: In a flashback of the original Redwood murders, the killer is shown eating a chunk of flesh from his murdered wife.
• The mutants roaming "The Wastelands" in Robot Holocaust have Haim for a nice snack.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show has Frank'N'Furter serving Eddie to their guests who are unaware of this.
  • There's a nice little Stealth Pun about the characters eating Meat Loaf, the actor playing Eddie.
  • "That's a rather tender subject... wouldn't you agree?" "Brad gets it! Janet gets it! Rocky DOESN'T get it!"
• In Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, both Romasanta and Antonio indicate that they eat parts of their victims.
• One scene in the 1976 {{}} film Savage Man, Savage Beast shows two brothers arrested for engaging in a form of post-mortem cannibalism of three of their relatives in an attempt to absorb their memories and acquire their hunting skills.
• Saving Silverman: J.D. and Wayne tell Coach Norton that they ate Judith alive when they say how they got rid of her. It is blatantly obvious they are lying. Coach Norton believes them and commends them for their good thinking.
• The Scavengers: According to Captain Harris, his wife, son and overseer where killed, cooked and eaten by freed slaves. Given Harris' sanity, the truthfulness of this account is dubious.
• Seven Murders for Scotland Yard: It is implied that the murderer has cannibalistic tendencies. The cops mention how they hope he doesn't eat all the evidence but then it's never shown or brought up again apart from the jarred body part collection back at his lair.
• Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs fame and his other movies. Oh where, oh where, has my little sister gone....
• In Slither anyone infected with the alien parasite becomes obsessed with eating meat. Any meat. We are treated to a close shot of the Mayor becoming overcome with hunger, and knowing full well what he is doing and disgusted and terrified by it, taking a huge bite out of the arm of a (hopefully) dead human...
• Averted in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, though not for lack of trying. Claudia has (what she thinks) is Lilli's heart cut up to eat in a stew.
• Played for laughs in the little-known comedy Sorority Boys. The end credits begin with about a dozen Tri-Pis (ditzy blonde sorority girls) stranded in the middle of the ocean on a life raft. The Stinger for the film shows about four left, with one asking another, "Are you done with Ashley's leg?"
• In Soylent Green, when the world's food supply has run out and people are no longer satisfied with Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow, corporations create the eponymous food product Soylent Green, which is recycled human corpses.
  "IT'S PEOPLE...."
  • In a biological sense, this is analogous to having a compost pile for one's garden. By using the remains of other plants, you enrich the soil so that new plants can grow better. (It doesn't make it any less Squick, though.)
• Tim Burton's adaptation of the classic Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - which was itself an adaptation of the old magazine serial The String of Pearls, which was written by either J.M. Rymer or Thomas Prest - with Johnny Depp as the eponymous barber. Todd and Mrs. Lovett aren't cannibals themselves, as far as we know, but Mrs. Lovett does sell meat pies made from Sweeney's victims to her customers.
• In the wraparound story of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, Betty is a witch who has imprisoned Timmy in her kitchen and is planning to cook him and serve him up to her witch friends for supper.
• In Tank Girl, the Big Bad has these bottle-thingies he sticks in people that suck the water out of their bodies. He then drinks it.
• Both the original series and the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. After a small town becomes deserted, a family resorts to cannibalism, killing any unfortunate travelers who happen to come through town.
• The Theatre Bizarre: "Sweets" is the story of Estelle and Greg, a pair of food fetishists who gorge on sweets, and their break up, which ends at a gourmet cult feast with Greg as the main entree.
• In the movie anthology Three... Extremes, the segment Dumplings features a woman who regains her youthful appearance by eating dumplings made of aborted human fetuses.
  • The segment was later made into a feature length film of the same name.
• This Is the End: After Danny McBride gets thrown out of the house, he becomes the leader of a cannibal tribe and eats James Franco alive.
• Joked about in Tillie And Gus:
  Tillie Winterbottom: Do you like children?
  Augustus Q. Winterbottom: I do if they're properly cooked.
• Enforced in the Taiwanese adventure film, Treasure Hunter. Master Hua is the Sole Survivor of a doomed expedition into the desert mausoleum, who constantly suffers from Survivor's Guilt. At the end of the movie, he revealed that he survived his adventure by feasting on his dead friends.
• The trolls goblins in Troll 2, who eat humans, but only after turning them into "half-human, half-plant" creatures, because they're vegetarians.
• Turkey Shoot: Alph rips off and then eats one of Dodge's toes.
• The Hong Kong film The Untold Story is Very Loosely Based on a True Story in which an employee in a Macau restaurant kills the proprietor and his family, and cooks them as pork buns. Although, he isn't the one eating them.
• When Evil Calls: After one of her classmates wishes she looked good enough to eat, the Jerkass Genie ensures she gets literally devoured by Molly.
• Willy's Wonderland: Jerry Robert Willis and his followers devoured numerous people, including children, in the past while disguising their hunting ground as a family entertainment center. They killed themselves in a Satanic ritual and had their souls transmitted to the animatronics. After that, they continued to feed on customers and the rest of the citizens of Hayesville, Nevada until Sheriff Lund made a deal in which unsuspecting people will become human sacrifices for them.
• Winterskin: Near the end of the movie, Agnes cuts out Pete's tongue and eats it.
• Wolves: Connor Slaughter and his pack like to hunt down and eat people who've displeased them.
  • Cayden is given the charming nickname "The Cannibal Kid" by the media.
• The titular feral woman in The Woman has no qualms with biting off Chris' finger or Belle's face. For that matter, the other feral woman Chris has locked up doesn't have a problem with eating Miss Raton alive.
• In the back-story of Wrong Turn films, all the animals have died due to industrial shenanigans and the villainous family of inbred hillbillies resort to hunt people for food.
• Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings: Like usual, the hillbillies are cannibals. Quite gruesomely, Daniel gets captured and cut up while alive, with them slicing choice parts off of his body to eat.
• XX: In "The Box", Mary has a nightmare where she is being Eaten Alive by her family.

---