Cannibal Terror

Cannibal Terror

Year: 1980

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: French

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Deep in the jungle, a clan of flesh‑eating cannibals lies in wait. After a botched kidnapping, two criminals and their captive take refuge in a friend’s jungle house. When one of them rapes the host’s wife, the trio becomes the hunted, destined to be devoured by the nearby cannibal tribe.

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Two criminals, Mario Antonio Mayans and Roberto Antoine Fontaine, meet at a bar with a woman named Lina Mariam Camacho. Lina mentions that before the meeting she had talked with a little girl named Florence, the daughter of wealthy couple Madame Danville Silvia Solar and Monsieur Danville Olivier Mathot. The three decide to kidnap Florence and demand money to return her to her family. To keep things under the radar, they head into the jungle and go to the house of their friend Antonio Antonio Mayans, who lives there with his wife, Manuela Pamela Stanford.

In the jungle, they meet a woman named Mickey who agrees to drive them to the border into cannibal land. After crossing, their car breaks down, and Mickey goes to the river to cool the radiator. She is captured by a cannibal tribe, taken to the village, and cannibalized. The criminals, together with Florence, manage to escape.

When they reach Antonio’s house, he leaves for a few days. During his absence, Mario stalks Manuela as she showers, and in the woods he ties her to two trees and rapes her. Hours later, Antonio returns, finds Manuela bruised, and she confesses what happened; he vows to avenge her.

The next day, Antonio takes Mario to the woods for hunting. He confronts Mario at gunpoint, forces him to tie himself to a tree, and then leaves him to be killed by the cannibals.

Meanwhile, the Danvilles learn where their daughter is and fly to the jungle with border guards and hunters to search. The gang, after crossing a river, is ambushed by cannibals who take them to the village. Lina and Roberto are tied to trees, and Florence is taken to play with the tribe’s children. Lina is devoured, and Roberto is dismembered and cannibalized. The Danvilles and the guards reach the cannibal village after a shootout, and Antonio asks the cannibal leader where the girl is. The Danvilles reunite with Florence, who is unharmed.

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