Cannibales

Here, we have the typical slasher flick set-up. A group of kids set out on a nice trip in the woods get ambushed by a group of red-neck maniacs.

While I can admit this film was very poorly made, it still managed to be entertaining. The acting is about as bad as it gets and there is a severe lack of character development. It's one of those flicks where you have nothing to do so you slap this movie in your VCR. What this movie is, basically is just mindless fun. Not a classic in any way shape or form but somehow manages to entertain.

'Lunch Meat' is not for everyone but for those of you lucky(unlucky?) enough to get a hold of this rare b-horror flick, you just may be surprised.

I give it 6 red-necks out of 10.

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 !!!

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.

A group of young teenagers run into a group of murderous redneck cannibals.Soon the woods are filled with screams of dying...Cheesy and lovingly cheap survival/hicksploitation flick with decent acting and insane mood.It owes a lot to Tobe Hooper's legendary "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Director Kirk Alex holds the tension well with little flares like frantic POV shots.The gore is kept to minimum,but the brutality is quite strong for example there is a decapitation,throat munching and machete through the stomach.The hillbillies are suitably menacing as they stalk their human prey.If you are a fan of "Trapped" or "Hunter's Blood" give this low-budget oddity a look.7 cannibalistic rednecks out of 10.

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!