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This is a good example of the glory days of the drive-ins and the grindhouses. Everything you wanted in those days was included. Beautiful women and nudity and blood. For those days...If you watch it now it is a funny piece to see. Just look at the clothes, mini shorts, f*** me boots in glorious white up to the knees, smoking in bed, hairstyles you can't imagine. It is even stranger that this flick never had a proper release just until a few months ago. A lot of people did search for a copy because there was something funny about it and luckily on the official DVD you can find it also, the "warning bell". each time that there is a killing you will be warned by some kind of horn of an old car. Once the so-called gore is over, you will here a bell, warning you that you ca open your eyes again. sadly, it never becomes gory, you never see the axe going into the flesh. You do see the red stuff flowing as a result. There is also a bit too much of blah blah. But overall, it's a funny piece to watch. Some of the actors still are in the business others just left it after this flick. But it is also worth watching for the fans of the director Ivan Reitman. He became a famous producer in the seventies of horror (Shivers, Death Weekend, Ilsa,...) and of blockbusters like the Ghostbusters trilogy. I guess the fans will be delighted with it's proper release.

I saw this movie on it's original release at the Ypsi-Ann drive-in theater, now long gone, replaced by a strip mall on Washtenaw Avenue in the vacuous semi-urban wasteland betwixt Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Michigan.

When I saw the title on the marquee cruising by in my rusted black '56 Buick Super I just knew we had to see it and WE HAD TO SEE IT STONED.

I wasn't disappointed - except I thought there would be more gory sex... of course I don't remember much, and it's no wonder, given the steamy windows and righteous clouds of smoke and gropes and throbs of randy teens in crowded car. I do remember thinking it was made by hippie freaks, just like us. This was before VCRs and DVDs and once it was gone you figured it was gone forever - no way this could make it back to broadcast TV, even on the late-late show. And to think technology exists to drag this out of it's crypt to yank our psychic triggers...

Before I get into the review, here are my ratings for the movie.

The story gets 1.25 out of 2: The Direction a 1: The Pacing receives a 1.25: While the Acting gets 1.25: And my Enjoyment level earns a 1.25 out of 2: This brings the total for Cannibal Girls to 6 out of 10.

The two things I took away from this film was... Eugene Levy totally rocks the afro and 'stach. And I want a Gloria for my girlfriend.

But, all kidding aside, this is a surprisingly good film. The first surprise being, it is a horror movie, and the writers Robert Sandler, Daniel Goldberg, Ivan Reitman, and the cast keep it so. The second surprise was Reitman allowed the cast to develop the dialogue, and it works wonderfully well. Since I'd not heard much about this flick, when I read this, I shook my head in anticipated dismay. But I am happy to be proved wrong.

Cannibal Girls is the story of Clifford Sturges, and his girlfriend Gloria Wellaby, who, while on a road trip find themselves stranded in a little rural township. While the mechanic repairs the car, they decided to stay over at the local motel. The motel owner tells the lovers about the strange tale of the three witches who lived in the area in years past. Unperturbed by this gory tome, the couple request directions to a restaurant. Upon their arrival, Clifford and Gloria are mystified to see the restaurant resembles an old farmhouse. Before they can leave a well-spoken and well-dressed man invites them inside. Their mystery grows he says they're expected, and their table is ready. The trouble is the restaurant only serves one dish... Meat! ...and there's something not quite right with it?

On the whole, the story isn't too bad. There are some moments, though, where it starts to drag or feel irksome. For example, one of the farmhouse guests is unrealistic to the point of stupidity. This style of humour may have worked back in 1973, but today, it falls flat. Then the whole dinner section is too long. It's only by a couple of minutes, though it does seem longer. There are a few places like these dotted throughout the film. But it's worth riding them out.

Reitman does a decent job with the direction. It's not great, but it is better than a lot out there. He tries to infuse the horror and creepy elements into the film though it misses most of the time. The creepiness comes from the actors and actresses portrayals, especially the comedic ones. There are a couple of moments when the characters appear to go insane. These are funny, and I hope it was intentional since this is a horror-comedy. Reitman shoots these segments well.

The acting is not superb, but it is bloody good. The reason it didn't score higher is that some of the lesser actors and actresses aren't so great. But, Levy as Clifford is awesome, and his repartee with Wellaby as Gloria is excellent. It's shown best in the motel scene where Gloria wants him to sing a song. Clifford wants to get a tad more amorous. Though, being a gentleman, he sings a song for her. Watch him try to find a holder for his fag. Then watch what Gloria proceeds to do with it. You aware this is something she would do, and Wellaby carries it off beautifully. And then before the song ends, Gloria's wandered off to the land of nod. And when Clifford moves her, so he can go out for a walk it's carried out in such a realistic fashion. I loved this scene.

Then you have Ronald Ulrich as the Reverend Alex St. John. He is the guy who welcomes our lovers into the restaurant. He has the ideal timbre in his voice, and his accent is so smooth that when he talks, you listen. St. John is the perfect character for him; he's the one who tells the story of the witches and the history of the town.

Cannibal Girls is an enjoyable and watchable film. Hopefully, it will lift your spirits, as it did mine, and while away an hour and a half. I would highly recommend a night in with your beloved, wrapped up in a cosy duvet, with a nice drink... or two... and this movie playing away. Hell, even if you're by yourself, get your feet up, grab a brew, and enjoy the film.

Now, since your car will be a while before it's repaired feel free to visit my Absolute Horror and Just For Laugh lists to see where these Witches landed their broomsticks in my ratings.

Take Care & Stay Well.

The film is about a couple, played by young Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin in their pre-SCTV days, that rent a room in a small town called Farnhamville. It is here in this rather desolated, out-of-the-way town that the two hear about an old legend about three cannibal girls and their atrocious murdering. It turns out, of course, that the legend is in fact reality and not so old as explained. The film has some bright spots including some humorous touches added by the performances of the two leads. Reitman, yes that is right...Reitman the director of such blockbusters as Ghostbusters, creates a pretty good atmosphere of bleakness especially in the town scenes.

Considering the budget used, this is a pretty good cheap thriller high on atmosphere and low on plot. The story is weird...to put it bluntly. There is a goodly amount of gore and red blood as well to contribute to the atmosphere. The sets are cheap, the film quality is cheap, the acting unknown even to this day aside from the two leads, and the story is inane. Nonetheless I can think of worse ways to waste 90 minutes, so if you get the chance...take a peek and see if your curiosity is peaked.

I finally saw CANNIBAL GIRLS and was surprised by how tame it was and how little of it made sense. The producers probably didn't have a script when they started shooting the movie because the story is incoherent. It starts with a couple, played by Eugene Levy (sporting a huge Afro and mustache) and Andrea Martin (who talks like Marilyn Monroe), who meet this woman who relates a story from the town's past. We see a flashback of these three cannibal women and how they kill their male guests. Back to the future, Eugene and Andrea visit a museum of sorts where some of the cannibal women are still living there (and looking the same) and who are controlled by this man (sorta like Charles Manson). Eugene and Andrea stay at the man's house, something happens during their sleep. Andrea has a nightmare with this ugly, burly man running after her. Next day, Eugene and Andrea go on main street. Eugene wants to stay but Andrea wants to leave. There's a huge pointless scene spent on main street. Eventually, the two end up back at the weird man's house, and more things happen during the ending that don't make much sense whatsoever. The movie ends up looking like a weird blend of Twilight Zone and Charles Manson and SCTV.

The film is unfunny, dark, boring and very confused. But it IS an interesting time capsule of 1970s Canadian cinema. Just don't expect to be laughing, or be grossed out or to make any sense of it.

Ever wondered what the first ventures into the movie making industry of the director of "Ghostbusters" and "Evolution" look like? Well, here's your chance but don't be too startled. Like so many other acclaimed directors (Brian DePalma, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola…), Ivan Reitman began his career as the young and enthusiast creator of grainy, amateurish and zero-budgeted horror movies that he presumably doesn't like to get remembered of nowadays. However, the name of the director (and possibly that of lead star Eugene Levy) is likely to be the sole reason why "Cannibal Girls" still enjoys some sort of modest cult reputation even to this day, as the film itself is unimaginably bad. Somewhat entertaining, maybe, but bad nevertheless. A young couple – Levy posing as a nearly unrecognizable hippie – pass through a remote and snowy Canadian region and naturally their car breaks down. They decide to spend the weekend and listen to the locals' stories about the old town restaurant that used to be run by a trio of cannibalistic girls. But that was a long time ago and now the restaurant allegedly became a fancy tourist attraction where all visitors simply must pay a visit. Needless to say the owners still cherish their appetite for human flesh and seemingly the rest of the town developed the taste as well. "Cannibal Girls" truly is a horribly inept movie from every viewpoint. The screenplay is as incoherent as can be, the stupid dialogs quickly begin to work on your nerves, the intentional funny parts are embarrassingly NOT funny, the acting (particularly Andrea Martin as this whiny girl Gloria) is infuriating and the few gory massacres are so damn tacky they wouldn't even upset a squeamish granny. There are some really bizarre and confusing plot twists near the end that'll make you lose interest entirely. At barely 80 minutes of running time, "Cannibal Girls" is a short and insignificant film but I must admit I was glad it was over.

I watched this film because of some SCTV skits featuring Bruno the Hunchback that were based on Eugene Levy's experience with this film. The Bruno character is called Bunker for some reason here.

The acting through this film is horrible, including Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy, but it's their early work so it's understandable. The film-making is often inept, such as when the three victims are playing Monopoly and the microphone is visible at the top of the screen for about three minutes. The males in the film, including Levy, are some of the dorkiest guys I have ever seen in my life. That Levy is the leading man indicates how bad some of the others must be. One guy even has fur on his arms, I swear.

Anyway, it's a laughable film that gets very tedious after the first 45 minutes or so once you realize it's going nowhere.

Some people call this a cult classic. Usually that means cheap and bad, and in that sense this movie is what you'd expect. For me, this was a curiosity - a movie filmed in the small town in which I now live. And while the town has changed a lot since 1973, there are still parts of it I recognized. But aside from satisfying that little bit of local-pride curiosity, there was nothing about this to get very excited about.

We discover from the start that the fictional town of Farnhamville has a problem. There's a weird Reverend who seems to control three pretty young girls, and they have a thing for cannibalism. Into the town for some time away stumble a young couple (played by Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) who get caught up in the "horror."

As you'd expect from a movie starring Levy and Martin, this movie often tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to get some laughs out of viewers, and when it's failing to do that it's not really that frightening. It does have a fair bit of gore, and several totally unnecessary topless scenes featuring those three pretty young girls. It also has a story that never really makes much sense, and with acting that was - even from Levy and Martin - mostly atrocious, it was painful and at times impossible to stick with this.

Cult classic? Yup, if by that you mean it's so bad that it's hard to figure out why anyone would want to take the time to watch it. (2/10)

I am BEGGING someone to release this hard to find little horror/cult gem on DVD. I would love to hear what Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin think now about having done this fun little schlocker. This film is very hard to find but it is definitely worth the search. It's a strange little film but if you can look past the bad acting, the holes in the storyline, and the inexplicable lack of gore that you would expect from any movie with the word Cannibal in the title it's actually a fun little flick. The 'gimmick' in this one is the "warning bell" which warns the viewer that a 'disturbing' scene is approaching (very William Castle like!). Still, there is just something intriguing about this cute little horror flick...check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean!

This is a pretty damn bland... not particularly scary, gory, sexy or funny (which you might expect because of the leads and the director). Like a good bit of low-budget horror it pads out its running time with slooooooow scenes that are both pointless and boring. Not that I've got a problem with slow moving films... when there is some point to that pacing beyond just taking up film stock to get to feature length.

Blame it on the writing. There's not really much going on with the plot or the characters... a couple wander into small town full of cannibals waylays travelers in order to eat them. No real attempt to explain the how and why this got started. There is some sort of magic ceremony involved but never gone into.

There's nowhere near the gore you'd expect after seeing other 'cannibal' or zombie movies. No dismemberment or disembowelment is shown. Just splashes of blood here and there. What limited violence there is was staged very poorly.

There is nudity, as kind of promised by the title and cover art... limited to the breasts of a few of the female cast and a couple of the males. It's neither titillating in a soft-core porn sort of way or strangely alienating as it is in Jean Rollin's better movies. It's just there.

Despite the presence of Martin and Levy there is little or no attempt at humor. They play it straight.

There's also a bit of what I call 'Porn Fancy' going on... where a movie tries to sell some element as fancy or sophisticated well past its budget and the capabilities of the cast. This film does that in places with unintentionally ridiculous results. Why pretend that it's a fancy dinner in a mansion when you don't have a mansion or the wardrobe or anyone who can play that convincingly? Just say it's a backwoods barbecue place and it won't be nearly as daft.

Really, not a good movie. No reason at all to watch it unless you're a rabid fan of the two leads and/or the director.

Loved this film: a campy modern fairytale and quirky melodrama with dark undertones. There is some mostly awful acting, a lot of it clearly improvised, but interspersed with moments of sheer brilliance. Eugene Levy is awesome, with little glints of the talent evident in his later more memorable roles. The Reverend Alex St. John has a Jim Jones aura about him and holds the town in thrall, although Jonestown was still 5 years in the future. (I guess this movie was way ahead of its time in several ways?). The wintry Ontario scenes and stark minimalistic directing deliver a sustained sense of foreboding and unease that something is very, very wrong in the town of Farnhamville. The degree of gratuitous violence and gore is quite surprising for its time. The femme fatales are deliciously sensual and alluring, and their victims appropriately chauvinistic (and hairy!). Yet there are also some delightful subtle touches, like when the mechanic at the local gas station places a for sale sign on Clifford's car that is in for repair: the message is simple- once you arrive, you can never leave. The atmosphere is relentless and for me, genuinely scary.

Twilight, eat your heart out!

It's not big budget, it's goofy - but I liked it. A lot of great horror movies (and I use the term "horror" loosely with this film) were low budget, starred nobodies, and shot with a sort of your-hometown look.

Cannibal Girls holds a bit of a Manson feel, as it was the buzz of the time. It was shot in rural parts of Toronto, areas which no not exist as rural any more. And it holds two big Canadian actors, who were nobody at the time - but do a great job of what they would become known for a few years later, great character actors. This is what makes it an alright film, but you have got to drop your standards of horror movies a bit to see this.

The story has a bit of an urban legend idea to it I suppose. The movie also contains something I think any true horror movie buff would think about when entering upon an odd out-of-the-way situation - don't you sometimes wonder if that hamburger, with the funky taste, you are eating at the diner in Tuckedawaytown, pop. 35, is really cow? When the film was first shown, it supposedly had a warning bell to let the "squeamish" know of impending grossness. Seeing it the first time 16 years after its original release, I didn't see any reason for bells' and whistles. I'm sure some people would have wanted that bell more with films like Zombie. However, I still wonder if cannibal girl #2 was eating a man sausage, or a MAN sausage.

Hey man, loosen up, Cannibal Girls is a cheap pseudohorror mouthful any horror buff should sample once.

How Ivan Reitman ever got the funding to make another movie after this POS is beyond me.

Nothing to recommend here. NOTHING.

David Cronenberg said he was the first man to make a horror film in Canada, but I think this was made first. (unless it wasn't considered a horror film). SCTV's Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star as couple who goes to a small town filled with strange people who turns out to be cannibals. The film is low on horror and dead on comedy. American International Pictures didn't know what to do with this film, so they tacked in a door bell sound to warn the viewers of all the shock scenes. (would be shock scenes is more like it). Siskel & Ebert gave this film "The Dog of the Week" back in 1980. Reitman second directional effort is a misfire to horror fans, but it's an intresting film looking back at it now.

This is an awful movie. It not funny. It is not scary. It just gross. The ending is awful. The story line is awful. If you to want see a good movie see The Texas Chainsaw massacre. Do not see this movie it is awful. And not scary. I did not even know this was comedy when I watched. Seriously were is the hummer. This is sick garbage. Do not see it. It is one of the worst horror movies ever. And it not a comedy. If is meat to funny it is not. It no funnier then The Texas chainsaw massacre. The Texas chainsaw massacre is scary. This not scary at all.

It's amazing how many trash Eugene Levy starred in during his early career. He is now a well known comedy actors, mostly thanks to his role in the American Pie movies but it's quite amazing that he ever became a big actor once you see the stuff he starred in at the beginning of his career.

It's also even more amazing to think that this movie is directed by Ivan Reitman, the man who later brought us the movies "Stripes", "Ghostbusters", "Dave" and the more recent comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend". Only his trademark comedy style can be seen back in this movie. Furthermore this movie doesn't show much of Reitman's talent, which is also do of course to the movie its really bad script (also partly written by Ivan Reitman himself) and its obvious very limited money and resources. The movie lacks some good editing cuts and camera position among many other things. The movie looks like a bad '70's porn, without all of the sex (but with the nudity). It's a real amateur like looking movie.

Despite having comedy elements in it, this movie above all is a serious horror attempt from Ivan Reitman. Luckily he soon discovered his talent more lays at the comedy genre, or else we wouldn't had ever had the fine and classic comedies he made later in his career. But how can you even really regard this movie as an horror film, when it has so little gore (well, at least for a cannibal flick) in it and no scares at all.

The movie basically has a non-existent story that is hard to follow because it just doesn't make an awful lot of sense all. You'll have a hard time understanding when the movie is in flashback mode and when it's set in real time and what's real and what's not. It's the sort of script that makes you wonder why they even decided to shoot it in the first place. It's a confusingly bad made movie, that often makes you go; 'What's going on here?!'. This movie is not at all what you could and should expect from a cannibal flick.

It's just not an awfully interesting movie to watch, since too little interesting is ever happening in it. It's not even interesting as a study of an early Ivan Reitman movie. There is really no reason why you should ever watch this bad '70's flick.

3/10

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New couple Clifford Sturges (Eugene Levy) and Gloria Wellaby (Andrea Martin) are driving their troublesome car when it breaks down near the small town of Farnhamville. They are told about the legend of 3 cannibal women luring men to their deaths. They stay at the house in the urban legend hosted by the Reverend and his three female followers.

With Levy and Martin, I assumed that this is a spoof or at least a horror comedy. I'm not sure if there is any comedic intent and I don't know what is suppose to be funny. There is actually a very effective section as the old woman recounts the cannibal girls legend. I love these beautiful women luring the two nerds especially. It's effective horror and works great as a story. There are interesting ways to go with that dynamic. Levy and Martin don't really fit and they aren't going with their strengths anyways. After a certain point, the movie left me scratching my head.

Guess Charles Manson and his "cult" inspired the movie. What you get is some "reverend" and his cult craving for some blood and flesh, all shot in nice B-movie trash style of the 70s. The story: a young couple (like two years later Brand and Janet in Rocky Horror Picture Show) get in trouble with a lunatic master and his adepts.

What we get are a few "gore" (tame for today's hardened eyes and souls) effects here and there and some beautiful nude 70s ladies who could all be hired from some Boney M or ABBA performance dance group, and some poor guys and gals getting themselves killed and served for food.

Tasty for the lover of bad taste. Everyone else - avoid.

Having just finished all of Roger Corman's directed work, Ivan Reitman's second film is an interesting comparison. It's an exploitation film about, well, cannibal girls, but in contrast to Corman's work which could be overstuffed and messy, but they were never slow. This is confused, messy, and slow. It makes it simply a harder kind of exploitation film to sit through. I mean, this isn't complete dreck, just mostly dreck. Unfunny, ugly dreck. Mostly.

Clifford (Eugene Levy) and his girlfriend Gloria (Andrea Martin) are traveling for a nice little vacation and end up in the small town of Farnhamville where they get a room at the local motel. There, the owner, Mrs. Wainwright (May Jarvis), tells them the legend of the three sisters who lure in traveling men to eat and feast on their flesh to achieve immortality. The problem here is that the story from the past is filmed in exactly the same way as the story from the present, including everyone wearing modern dress. We've also seen the three cannibal girls (Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson, and Mira Pawluk) before the story starts, so it feels like we're just cross-cutting with contemporary action. It's really badly edited.

Well, the story amounts to the three luring in three traveling men, sleeping with them, and then killing them to feast on. They also seem to share the meat with the local town to sell in butcher shops. The portrait of their seductions is the main focus of exploitation, just to note.

The back half of the film is dominated by Clifford and Gloria going to dinner at a restaurant run by Reverend Alex (Ronald Ulrich). The restaurant is just someone's house, and at no point is this commented on. It's just treated like a restaurant when the waiting area is a living room, and the dining area is just the house's dining room. This feels like it could have been a source of comedy: "This isn't a restaurant." "Of course it is. Best place in town." "This town stinks!" Bare minimum efforts at comedy, but the contrast is just left there as the only potential source of comedy. And it's not funny. It ends up feeling more like a few guys with no money making a movie and having to make the most of what few resources they have in order to keep things moving. Which is probably exactly what it was.

Anyway, Reverend Alex is a freak who talks weird and prosaically, and he's got the three girls around him, obviously the same that we've seen, which makes the whole edit of the film all the more confusing. I mean, seriously, who's idea was it to film the past and present the same, show the girls in effectively the same clothes and environment, and act like there's some small mystery about what's going on? Or, if there's not supposed to be a mystery, why is it played so straight?

The ending of the film is a twist of sorts with a character suddenly deciding to turn evil. I didn't quite get the particulars, but it did provide for a somewhat tense and darkly comic (to some limited degree) ending that I appreciated.

Essentially, Cannibal Girls is a movie made by amateurs. It's slow, plodding, doesn't know what to do to keep interest, can't pivot to production realities to find comedy, and just kind of ambles from one bland scene to the next. As a starting point, it shows little promise, and if Reitman and Levy and Martin had never been heard from again, I would have been surprised. However, they kept at it, went on to form SCTV, and actually developed comedic chops to carry on the rest of their careers.

This, though, is like a movie one makes in high school with some friends, just with more skin.

Directed by Ivan Reitman of Stripes and Ghostbusters fame, Cannibal Girls is, rather unsurprisingly, as comical as it is ghoulish. Eugene 'Jim's Dad' Levy and Andrea Martin play Cliff and Gloria, a young couple who travel to the isolated, snow-bound town of Farnhamville for a weekend away, where they discover that the place is home to a cannibal cult headed by weirdo 'Svengali' Rev. Alex St. John (Ronald Ulrich), whose three beautiful acolytes (Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson and Mira Pawluk) do his every bidding.

Clearly shot on a low budget, with competent direction from Reitman and improvised dialogue from the cast of unknowns (Levy having not yet achieved fame), this darkly humorous tale of the macabre is, going by the majority of reviews here on IMDb, clearly not everyone's cup of tea. I wouldn't call it great, but I certainly wasn't bored by the film as many seem to be. There's an unsettling, bizarre, dreamlike quality to proceedings, some subtly amusing moments, just a smidgen of gore, and the three cannibal girls all take their tops off. Oh, and Eugene Levy's hair and 'tache have to be seen to be believed.

6/10. The ending is a tad confusing, but the film is still worth a look for fans of cult '70s oddities.