"The genius of this film is impossible to put into words. There are times when the celestial bodies which rule our fates like the machined cogs of so many gears in an enormous and ethereal mechanism come together at one moment of perfect alignment to produce an event of such staggering proportions that it stands out like a beacon of what it means to be human. Such is the nature of this film. The script, acting, special effects, and the music - oh the music! - are all sublime. The direction is GENIUS. This, surely, is cinema at its very greatest." --- Ernesto GuerrieroOK the above may seem a slight exaggeration - but take this as the inverse of what I really mean, and then turn it back around again to get an idea of how GOOD it is to watch - because of its serene horribleness.This movie was clearly made in haste and without much money or ability. It was clearly made at the same time as Jess Franco's equally sublime 'Cannibals', since it features several actors in common, much footage in common, and many locations in common - and the writer of this film is one of Franco's dozens of pseudonyms. Roger Corman used to make two movies using the same set to save on cash, or quickly to shoot a movie on the set of another film before they struck it. Clearly Franco was doing the same here.If you like sitting back and maybe getting a bit hammered and eating a pizza and shutting the brain off while you watch some gross effects and bad dubbing, then Cannibal Terror will have more to offer you than most other cannibal films.Don't pay more than a couple of bucks for it. Save your real money for a definitive edition of Cannibal Holocaust, which actually is good. This is just fun.

This is a total mess of a movie. A Spanish/French co-production, this was accredited to Jess Franco for a long time until the real culprit (a Spanish ex-actor by the name of Julio Tabacana) was revealed. However, the fact it shares cast/scenes/plot with Franco's THE CANNIBALS, which was released at a similar time, hints that his veiled hand may have been at work somewhere in the production. Other "Franco-isms" include looping stock sound track (in this case, the same bird call repeated ENDLESSLY) and long shots of characters doing absolutely nothing and wandering endlessly through the jungle.Getting through this is an ordeal. The "natives" are clearly white in origin (possibly cast members?)- many of them have coiffured hair and beer guts, and the only thing to distinguish their cannibal nature are smatterings of paint on their flabby bodies. In some scenes they clearly can't hide their amusement at the "tribal rituals" they are involved in. Their "cannibal village" is quite obviously not in a jungle, as the lawn is neatly mowed and in some shots you can see a road in the background with vehicles parked on it. Adding insult to injury, the disembowelment scenes are all achieved by shamelessly swapping the victim's torso for that of an actual pig corpse wrapped in clothing. Seriously.For the cannibal enthusiast only, this is painfully boring and inept. It is an insult to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST that the films share a genre.

****possible spoilers**** Nobody makes cannibal films like the italians. This a good case in point. Three crooks, Mario Roberto and a woman, kidnap a young girl Florence Danville. They call in a favor and hide out in a house near a jungle with a guy and his wife. Mario rapes the wife. The guy extracts revenge by leading Mario into the jungle and leaving him there to be eaten by cannibals. The girls parents find out where she is and go looking for her. The remaining crooks leg it into the jungle, hotly pursued by the parents and owners of house. And so it goes on until the cannibals dole out some punishment on the crooks. Inept and poorly made in every department don't waste your money. Theres only a couple of gore scenes in it, and not very well done either. The jungle setting is'nt very convincing with neatly cut grass clearly visible in certain tight shots. The native cannibals themselves are laughable, they have strange 70s styled hair-dos and neatly cut side-burns!!!! Cannibal Holocaust still rules.

(sort-of spoiler) Cannibal Terror is the least interesting of the cannibal movies I've seen. It involves a group of criminals who kidnap a little girl and then cross the border into another country (I forget which one). There, they are taken in by a man and his wife. But, when one of the gangsters rapes the wife, and the parents of the little girl lead a search for her, the criminals are forced to flee. They are then attacked by a pack of cannibals.This boring film lags a lot, and is burdened further by an incredible amount of pointless footage (I mean, how long do those natives dance around anyway?). Also, it's not too gory, and the gore scenes aren't done very well. But it does have one hell of a groovy soundtrack! If you can find a copy (which isn't very easy), I'd recommend picking it up for the music alone.My favorite part is the beginning, in which the gangsters use even more profanity in five minutes than in the opening of "Make Them Die Slowly"! Now that's impressive!