Cannibales

Some of you might have been turned away from this "gory" film, but might I explain to you, this film is equivalent to an elementary school TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. It is lame and stupid and the goriest thing about this B-Movie mistake is its cover. The reviewer before me said it all- he is absolutely correct! The title does explain it all. Although this film is more like leftover lunch meat. It's moldy, you don't want to go near it, it turns you off, and it surprises you how it can look so good-yet taste so bad! As you can imagine, I'm pretty ticked off. I bought this film-though cheap and used-expecting another gory massacre, produced well on a low budget. What I got was a PG TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. There is nothing redeeming or interesting here for horror fans, and don't waste the money to rent it. The characters that are described on the back of the box are described as sick cannibals. "Paw is the father, his sons use shovels and drills to cut up people in the San Barnardino mountains and then they sell their inner organs as lunch meat in a restaurant in the local city." Sure, this happens, and the majority of the gore happens in the first ten minutes of the film, because after that, it becomes more and more like an extremely pointless and boring chase in the woods. The characters are barely developed and I didn't care whether they lived or died.

WELL, to sum it all up, this film is a pointless boring mockery of good B-Movies. Not even cheap films can be this bad. But if you must, then go ahead-because this film does have nice scenery-to say the least! I'd give this film *1/2 out of ****.

A truly lame film. The box depicts a freaky looking redneck covered in blood eating a severed arm, the scene does not appear in the movie!!! Most of the movie contained scenes of a bunch of redneck retards chasing people through the woods, with little gore. A total waste of time!

The dynamics of this 8mm horror movie are by far the best in category, cinematography is excellent, the cast is perfectly matched for their roles, the plot is very similar to " Chain Saw Massacre " you are thrust into the world of four young people from the soft side of Los Angelas California, on there journey for fun and relaxation, they stop for a much needed LUNCH break. This is where the true horror of there venture begins. On a sunny California Spring day, after a long voyage they stop at an out-of-the-way, off the main highway food/rest area. Enjoying there LUNCH MEAT sandwiches. The tasty secret ingredient is all to overpowering for there taste buds, but what is the secret ingredient ??, .... RENT THE MOVIE AND YOU CAN ANSWER MY QUESTION. THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART !!!

Grainy photography, mean-spirited violence. a lo-fi soundtrack, assorted irritating city folk being systematically offed by foul-mouthed, gap-toothed rednecks: Lunchmeat has all of the ingredients I would expect to find in any self-respecting backwoods B-movie, but with an overwhelming sense of cheapness, amateurish direction, dreadful acting, and most of the deaths occurring off-screen, I doubt this one will be featured on many people's 'Top Ten list of Hillbilly Horror'.

Unsurprisingly taking its cues from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the film sees several young adults falling foul of a family of bloodthirsty maniacs who intend to turn their victims into burger meat. With much of the film consisting of a tedious, drawn-out game of cat and mouse between the terrified townies and their inbred assailants, interspersed with the occasional nasty-but-not-all-that-gory killing, this one soon gets extremely boring; even a cannibalistic man-child on the loose and porn star-to-be Ashlyn Gere as one of the victims (credited here as Kim McKamy and sporting a particularly nasty paw-print sweater), Lunchmeat is simply too derivative, too inept and too dull to make the (cold) cut.

My review was written in January 1989 after watching the feature on Tapeworm video cassette.

This 1986 film with a not-so-catchy title is aimed at the lower end of the gore market and offers little of interest to traditional horror fans.

Aping, with little skill, Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", film concerns a clan of backwoods California dunderheads who prey on passersby, eating their flesh and selling leftovers to suppliers in town to be made into luncheon meat.

Kim McKamy (who deserves better than her recent string of roles in cheapies like this one) and her pals are on a weekend vacation when they're spotted by the geeks and attacked. Poorly paced film has this occurring early on, with anticlimax final reels of attempted escape and gruesome confrontations.

In-fighting dialog among the young heroes and heroines en route to their date with the meat cleaver is relentlessly boring. Gore content is nauseating for the uninitiated but pointless and unimaginative for the young gorehounds out there in video land. Corny payoff has the backward Benny taking revenge on his sadistic daddy (i.e., "Paw") after set-up scenes of the old man whipping him mercilessly.

Technical credits are extremely crude, especially in the editing of unmatched footage.