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AKA: Cannibal – Aus dem Tagebuch des Kannibalen
Year: 2006
Directed by: Marian Dora
Starring: Carsten Frank (Cannibal), Victor Brandl (Flesh)
Country: Germany, European Cinema
Language: English
Runtime: 01:29:05
Genres: Based on a True Story, Cannibalism, Sexual-Violence against Men, Gore-Gruesome-Splatter, Gay, Internet Perversions
Plot – Spoilers:
Cannibal has Marian Dora’s staple atmosphere and squishy crawlies but offers a more straightforward plot and linear narrative. It is based quite closely on the Rotenburg Cannibal, Armin Meiwes.
A lonely gay man who often watches snuff films and videos of animal slaughter is overcome by an irresistible urge to eat a willing male victim. He hangs around chatrooms and meets potential meals, but they all eventually back out or don’t fit his menu. Finally his luck turns a corner and an eager man who refers to himself as ‘Flesh’ turns up with just one condition – “I don’t want to suffer.”
The Flesh is more enthusiastic about his looming death and even assumes a dominant role when they fuck, while the Cannibal finds himself chickening out and worse, is repulsed by the taste of Flesh’s cock.
Flesh is disappointed and asks to be dropped back to the train station. But that’s only the halfway mark in the movie.
Random Thoughts:
This is a great effed up movie for a number of reasons, but mostly for two:
1. With Cannibal, you get a de-glamorized and de-sanitized take on effed up scenarios. The shit that you’d actually have to be insensitive to is captured pretty well here.
2. Cannibal also details an oft-overlooked aspect – it’s one thing to have a fantasy, another to actually follow it through.
However, by the end of the movie, you wonder if the Cannibal having crossed certain boundaries will be as loving and concerned about his next victim’s needs, and more importantly, if his next victim will necessarily be a consensual one.
this is so romantic
The melody in the beginning is hauntingly beautiful. The prosthetics and the sfx effects are so realistic, they even got the perfect actor to play the victim. I’d say this was entertaining. The irl german cannibal Armin Meiwes was very respectful of his victim and he did an excellent job with the aftercare. He stayed true to his promise and ate Bernd’s flesh with love. Clearly, nothing could be more romantic than that.
I watched “Grimm Love” before I watched “Cannibal.” Both movies were made in 2006 and both are based on the Armin Meiwes – Bernd Brandes cannibalization case in 2001, only you wouldn’t know it watching Marian Dora’s “Cannibal” since there is barely any dialog or back story about what led up to the event. If you were watching “Cannibal” for the first time and didn’t know anything about the case it would probably seem like just a random bunch of bullshit thrown together for the first hour. I thought “Grimm Love” was a superior film in all ways i.e.: cinematography, lighting, set design, acting, script, musical score – everything except for the fake blood and the gross out factor. The soundtrack to the films I have seen by Marian Dora seem like they are designed to put you to sleep. There is usually a tape loop of an earthquake sound with some wind blowing over a desert, and maybe a low B held down on a Moog Synthesizer with a bass drum beat every 2 measures for like 3 or 4 minutes. I’m giving “Cannibal” 3 stars. “Grimm Love” is a much better film and it really blows this one away.
A must-watch romance film ! Eat a meal during for full immerson