Cannibals in the Streets 4K 1980 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

The horrors of war take on new meaning for Vietnam veteran Norman Hopper, whose quiet family life is derailed by the arrival of Charlie Bukowski, a fellow soldier obsessed with memories of bloody carnage, horrific captivity and... eating human flesh. Breaking the law and running from the cops, Charlie asks Norman to help him and his friend Tom get out of town. Fighting for their lives and spreading the infection, the cannibalism-infected team makes their way into the city's sewers for a heartbreaking denouement you'll remember forever!

Review 4K Movie

Antonio Margheriti, who usually shoots under the pseudonym of Anthony M. Dawson, was a little overzealous with the title. With the word combination Cannibal Apocalypse you expect something large-scale, monstrous, with crowds of distraught people eating each other's throats in the middle of blood-flooded and ruined streets. What happens in this movie is comparable in scale not to an apocalypse, but to a tragedy. Or an emergency. Although 'Cannibal Emergency' doesn't sound like much, you'll agree.

Norman, a former Vietnam veteran, gets a nasty call from the past - a call from a former coworker, Bukowski, who during the Vietnam era, Norman caught Norman pairing up with another soldier to eat the corpse of a freshly burned Vietnamese woman. Bukowski is sort of released from the nuthouse and offers to 'go for a beer', but the effects of Vietnam don't let up so quickly, and now Bukowski gets into a scuffle in a supermarket, biting a couple of people who have been transmitted the notorious cannibalism through saliva.

Although the movie has a coherent structure, it is subtly split into two halves - the first chapter, the climax of which is the shootout between Bukowski and the police in the supermarket, and the second, in which the four cannibals (the two protagonists, their battle buddy, who actually with Bukowski ate the Vietnamese and a nurse bitten by them in passing) are running from the cops in the sewers (despite everything the cannibals still have reason, so they interact with each other as normal people should), and it all culminates in a rather sad ending.

I must say that 'Cannibal Apocalypse' differs quite favorably from many representatives of cannibal films, the genre of which was full of copies at a rate of five copies per year in those times. There are not only cannibalistic tendencies, but also a family theme (Norman loves his wife, but in passing looks at the young neighbor), and touching on the theme of 'unnecessary' former veterans who were unfit for a quiet life. Sometimes this was inherent in Jean Rollin, but if he filmed often blatant hat and notorious social themes mused (for example, the warm paternal feelings of zombies in “Lake of the Living Dead”), Margheriti with an obviously small budget trying to keep a serious face, and the social background is let in passing.

In terms of special effects picture is not bad - there will be a couple of shootouts, meat, a fair amount of blood. Yes, and acting in the tape is very good - Saxon, Turner, Radice and others play perfectly. Decorates the action in a moderately melodic music by Alexander Blocksteiner. Nevertheless, the picture lacks a little bit of action in some moments. There is no outright tedium, just at times I really wanted to screen apocalypse.

As a whole and in general - the picture is a good thriller, in some places smoothly flowing into drama and with bright action scenes. It is not a diamond of the genre, but it is a noticeable enough sample.