Cannibal Girls

REMASTERED IN HD! A CLASSIC OF CANUXPLOITATION! ► A formative feature in the crazed canon of Canuxploitation gets a remastering and re-launch! Cannibals Girls, an early feature from Meatballs and Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, dates from the shock-and-sleaze 1970s/80s heyday of B-moviemaking in the Great Weird North, a Golden Age of trashy Canuck cinema only starting to get its due from critics and cultists (and which, not incidentally, produced one bona fide world-class master, David Cronenberg.) Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin, both pre-SCTV fame, play a couple on a romantic getaway. Stranded in a remote Ontario town, they stumble into a nightmare involving a sinister reverend and a trio of dangerously seductive young women who take the term “man-eater” a trifle literally. U.S. exploitation experts American International Pictures picked up Cannibal Girls and were responsible for its loopiest grindhouse gimmick: the warning bell that, in advance of the gory parts, alerts squeamish viewers to close their eyes! This HD remastering from the original 35mm film was overseen by Canadian pop-cult documentarian Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Tales of the Rat Fink) and his boutique distribution company FilmsWeLike. “Charming, inadvertently goofy and plenty gory . . . Equal parts slasher film, winking comedy, soft-core porno and Gothic spookfest” (CBC.ca). “Purposefully trashy and surreal . . . One of the sleaziest Canadian B-movie concoctions of its era . . . Essential viewing” (Canuxploitation.com). Colour, HDCAM. 84 mins.

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Program Update: Warning! There is no warning bell! Scary gory creepy parts arrive unannounced!

FilmsWeLike, the Canadian company responsible for the HD remastering (from the original 35mm reels) of Cannibal Girls, has informed us that, contrary to information previously provided, this (original Canadian) version of the film does not include the warning bell that was later added by the film’s U.S. distributor, American International Pictures.

Viewers are advised that they watch the film at their own risk.  Pacific Cinémathèque assumes no responsibility for any alarm, upset, scaredy-cattiness or offence to refined sensibilities that may result.