2. Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) - From £1.49
John Saxon is the man to get the job done! His presence always enlivens any film he is in. Cannibal Apocalypse is an entertaining film, one of our big three cannibal films, which is unusual in that the bulk of the cannibalistic shenanigans takes place in America and not some far flung jungle in the Third World. The flesh eating antics in Cannibal Apocalypse seem to originate from a virus that a couple of Vietnam Vets picked up in the war. That bad boy Charlie Bukowski (our sainted Giovanni Lombardo Radice) bites Norman Hopper (John Saxon) in the arm and transmits the virus to him when they are in Vietnam. Back in the USA, Hopper bites a seductive teenage girl neighbour in a very pervy scene. His mate Charlie has holed himself up in a shopping mall with guns after he vented his flesh eating urges onto a cinema patron's neck and got chased. Hopper persuades him to give up. Charlie bites a policeman in the surrender and he is taken away with his other cannibal mate Tommy Thompson to be tied up in a psych ward. In a fit of fear and guilt, Hopper confesses to his wife that he bit the young girl and that his taste for flesh is overpowering him. After eavesdropping on the phone that his doctor wants his wife to bring him into the hospital. Norman soon scarpers and a wealth of cannibal mayhem ensues. There is a screamingly funny scene in the film where a young policeman is chowing down on a woman's breast and his superior comes in and catches him in the act. His reaction? "Oh my God son! Put it down!" Oh how I sniggered in delight. Over all, it was hardly the apocalypse of cannibals that the title promised but then Cannibal Handful doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Cannibal Apocalypse, although not coming across like your average cannibal film, is a highly entertaining violent horror romp and I guarantee you will be pleased at your £1.49 well spent