tales from the freakboy zone…: July 2026

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

freakboy on film: CANNIBAL GIRLS (1973)

Red cover of cannibal girls, with images of the film.

A fresh, young couple take a trip and end up having car problems in a quaint, small town. The inhabitants of this quaint, small town seem odd, yet nice enough, but maybe they simply want to have outsiders over as dinner. Will the fresh, young couple escape or wind up as leftovers?

A van with a sign that states meet in big red letters. Another sign says we deliver in black letters in a scene from cannibal girls.

Tragically, it’s not 1970s horror porn!

I couldn’t resist ordering CANNIBAL GIRLS from Vinegar Syndrome, partly because of the fun title, but mostly for the two leads. I mean, the fresh, young couple are portrayed by Eugene Levy (Schitt‘s Creek) and Andrea Martin (Black Christmas), both of SCTV fame. Then throw in Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) as the director and CANNIBAL GIRLS should have been a tasty treat.

Andrea Martin eat some meat in a scene from cannibal girls.

Miss Manners does not approve!

Should being the operative word.

I found CANNIBAL GIRLS to be unbearably slow, with little suspense or humor. Should I blame director Ivan Reitman? Should I blame screenplay writer Robert Sandler? (I can’t in good conscience blame Mr. Sandler since IMDb credits him as writing a handful of episodes of the original Fraggle Rock.) Maybe I should just blame the cast because, according to IMDB, most of the dialogue was…shudder…improvised.