are about as gross and gastronomically gory as they get. And while we’re not quite sure Ana Lily Amirpour’s new cannibal-comedy THE BAD BATCH will be included in that category (read E.Dub’s review HERE, C.Bum’s HERE), movies like CANNIBAL FEROX, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, RAW MEAT, RAVENOUS, MOTEL HELL, THE GREEN INFERNO, PARENTS, DELICATESSEN, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, etc. Cannibalism has long been a topic of some of the gnarliest horror films ever essayed. Whatever the root cause, one thing remains certain.

What is it about the ingestion of masticated human flesh at the maw of another that is so damn unsettling? Is it simply the intraspecific disharmony of human-on-human crime? The desperate immorality? The visceral response to graphically seeing blood, guts, flesh, bone and viscera chewed and chomped upon? Or at its heart, does cannibalism reveal the worst of our past…a raw, feral, primal instinct born out of the need to do whatever necessary for survival? Perhaps a sick and twisted combo of all of the above… STARRING: ROBERT KERMAN, FRANCESCA CIARDI, PERRY PIRKANEN, LUCA BARBARESCHI, CARL GABRIEL YORKEĬannibalism. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see? So…the point of this column is to determine how a film holds up for a modern horror audience, to see if it stands the Test of Time. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics.

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