| In the horror genre, vampirism is widely considered
much cooler than cannibalism. Cannibals are messy and dismember their
prey. Vampires simply exchange bodily fluids, in the process converting
their prey into new members of the vampire species.
Yet in real life, vampirism is at best a matter of legend and historical conjecture. Cannibalism, on the other limb, is a well-documented practice of historic and indigenous societies around the world. Yes, devouring one's own species violates the cardinal rule of the food chain; but people have gotten around that through the familiar-to-this-day shtick of declaring enemy tribes to be something less than human. Indeed, in some ancient communities consuming the flesh of a vanquished enemy warrior was said to give your warriors the strength or magic the enemy had. Over the years, many directors have understood the shock potential of cannibalism as one of the cruellest one-on-one crimes imaginable, a crime that robs its perpetrators of their last claim to membership in their own species. We present here a collection of these movies and continue to try and uncover more that have maybe slipped through the cracks or have been buried in hope of rotting away. |
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