Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Apocalypse (, also known as Invasion of the Flesh Hunters) is a 1980 action horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti (under the pseudonym 'Anthony M. Dawson') and starring John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Tony King and Ramiro Oliveros. The film combines the cannibal film genre with a forerunner of Margheriti's Vietnam War films.
Plot
The film opens with a flashback to the Vietnam War, where Norman Hopper is bitten by a U.S. POW Charlie Bukowski who is infected with a virus which leaves people with a craving for human flesh. In Atlanta, Georgia, some years later, Hopper wakes up from a nightmare about this incident, and then receives a phone call from Bukowski, who invites his old comrade out for a drink. The call comes in at an inopportune moment, as a young neighbour girl, Mary, was trying to seduce him, so he turns down the invitation. Hopper falls for her charms and as they are about to engage in oral sex, he bites her. After hearing from his concerned wife that a Vietnam vet barricaded himself in a mall, he gets into his car. Just as he is about to leave, Mary reveals that she enjoyed the bite. After arriving on the scene, he convinces Bukowski to surrender to the police. While being hauled away to the hospital, Bukowski bites a police constable.
More details
author | Antonio Margheriti Dardano Sacchetti |
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contentLocation | Atlanta |
director | Antonio Margheriti |
editor | Giorgio Serrallonga |
genre | action horror |
keywords | angle grinder attack biker gang blood sample break in cannibalism craving for human flesh flamethrower hear human flesh infect kill listen oral sex phone call police station pow run away station wagon strange noise telephone call vietnam vet vietnam war virus warn wound |
musicBy | Alessandro Blocksteiner |
producer | Edmondo Amati Maurizo Amati Sandro Amati |
publisher | Eurocopfilms |
recordedAt | Georgia |
theme | cannibal splatter war |