Do you remember the story a few years ago about the two guys that met online and one agreed to let the other one eat him? Well this here is the movie version of that little story and all I have to say is “What the fuck?” Man this is one twisted-ass little tale and one really twisted-ass little independent, foreign movie.

Here’s the break down kiddies, one character known as “The Cannibal” wants to eat human flesh. “The Cannibal” is perverted and bizarre to say the least, he likes to watch pigs be butchered and in his spare time he likes to crawl around on the floor biting the penis off of small clay sculptures. He also tries dating from time to time, but when he tells people of his desire to eat them, he normally gets punched in the face, that is until he meets our second character in this flick known only as “The Flesh”.

Now as messed up as “The Cannibal” is, well “The Flesh” is just plain fucking good old fashioned crazy. “The Flesh” wants to be eaten, yup, but more than that he wants to eat a little of himself before he buys the farm to, can you guess what he wants to chow on? If you said “His cock?” you’re right!

So after hanging out and banging the hell out of one another for about two days, shown in all it’s fully graphic glory, “The Flesh” decides it’s time to go for the gusto and get this whole thing underway for the end game. But “The Cannibal” doesn’t want to let go of his pet just yet, so he gets bitch slapped and ridiculed for a few moments, and then this flick really begins to change gears.

The first part of Cannibal is kind of slow, there is no dialog and it’s kind of bland in everyway, in the middle arc it nearly becomes gay porn and has more banana swallowing and sausage hiding than a Paynecraft BBQ and Marshal Earp tea party put together, but the final arc is a pure psychosis, demented, gore-fest that may lean more towards a snuff film. The effects are a little cheap, but damn are they effective. You really seem to be watching a human body be dissected and devoured right in front of you, you even get bladder and bowel emptying to boot, also much like a Payne/Earp get together. It’s just harsh and not in a good way either.

I’ve seen and watched a lot of bizarre stuff in my day and some things you really don’t need to see. But, much like a horrific car wreck, while watching Cannibal, you just can’t seem to look away, even if you want to. I can’t really say if Cannibal is good or bad it just is what it is, a simple movie about a man who wants to eat another human and another man who wants to be eaten by a human and Cannibal captures that very simple story in a very graphic light.

For it’s realism and graphic nature I have to give Cannibal a very strong 8, but for a film on the whole it probably gets about a 3, if you want to average that out to see what you get, me I’m heading off to the shower, ‘cause I feel just a little bit dirty for watching this one