Cannibal Girls (1973)

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

I like Ivan Reitman movies like the first Meatballs(Bill Murray),Ghostbusters(Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson). This one is not very well known but it is still worth a viewing with some friends on a snow day.Yes, there is a Warning Bell for the those with weak stomachs for certain scenes. Eugene Levy has a main role which he does a great job same with Andrea Martin. They play a young couple. Levy plays as a Big City-Hippy type. Martin plays the ditsy girlfriend role. The supporting cast are lesser known actors and actresses. There are some twists in the latter part of the movie. The bias that the Metre De has about smokers' blood being unacceptable for the circulation. The speculation the Sheriff and Doctor are in cahoots with the Metre De. the three girls who have a taste for fresh meat and their deformed homebody Bunker watch out for them.

its a horror thriller type with some character comedy but its not a comedy its creepy bloody and the girls are not dead they are possessed...The story which might kindly be described as "loose" tells of Cliff and Gloria a couple who've only been dating for two weeks but are already taking winter road trips together to strange, snowy Southern town. Arriving in one such place they run across an old lady who tells them the strange legend of the three beautiful girls who once lived in a nearby farmhouse and who regularly lured guests to the house, kept them waiting around for a few days, and then cooked them up for dinner.

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.