CANNIBAL MAN from Subkultur

[babybreese]

I have just put this on my must purchase as it's a huge upgrade over the US DVD based on the comparisons over at caps-aholic. Another winner from Subkultur, and it even has the English audio track

[Monroville]

Here is the link to the caps-a-holic pics:

CANNIBAL MAN blu-ray/dvd pics

[KowalskiVideo]

I never noticed before but this is a very beautiful film. Sure its content is disturbing, its rough on the surface and has some disturbing footage but it doesn't stop there. Not your typical grindhouse schlock. "When the butcher goes berserk...." may sound sleazy but its very gentle in a way you wouldn't expect. Cinematoraphy is great. It doesn't look polished at first glance but its very sophisticated (look at the visuals below). Considering it was made under a fascist dictatorship, its so much about oppression. It resonates on so many different levels and has a lot of subtext going (class, heteronormativity, homosexuality, surveillance/control/voyeurism, processed food, ...) without shoving it down your throat (except for the Flory soup) or being pretentious (i may sound pretentious writing this) and also works as straight-forward psycho-thriller. Great film, highly recommended!

More Blu-ray caps:

[babybreese]

Thank you for the addition cappage
I noticed it was a limited edition ( 1000 copies ) so I ordered one up yesterday. Completely agree on the film's positives, and hope sometime the director's GLASS CEILING also gets a decent presentation.

[El_Fez]

Hey man -

Did you ever wind up with a copy of Cannibal Man? How was the disc? Any extras to speak of? Care to share details, as I'm about to pick up the Subkulture discs here in a week or so.

[babybreese]

It's a great Blu, I was very happy I picked it up. Huge picture upgrade over the old transfer on DVD.

Main extra is a hunk of deleted scenes, some of these get into some homo erotic bits that ended up removed. Very interesting material, not just random outtakes.
Trailers and a booklet are included as well.

Another Blu is on deck from Code Red but there has been indication when it is due, likely sometime in 2018 ( they have about 60 titles in the wings announced but with no ETA ).

[El_Fez]

Coolness! I'll get my order in straight away.

Oh, one more thing - it looks like, at least from the picture of the packaging that I can find - that it looks like it comes in a slipcase. Is that the case, or am I being led astray by a marketing mockup?

[babybreese]

Slip is a yes.
Nice booklet and stamps, and the case poster art, it's a nice package.
Here are some quick pics of the set

[El_Fez]

I finally got a chance to spin up The Cannibal Man, and I want to bounce a thought off you guys: was that a gay movie? Okay, follow this line of logic. . . .

You have Marcos, a fellow with a secret. Everyone he knows is either "You need to go to the cops" or "I had no idea you were capable of that" or wants to rind out what's in that room. Everyone who learns his secret, he murders to keep silent.

Everyone except for the neighbor from the high rise. The neighbor who says "Lets go hang out" or "You go to the gym? I should come along with you some time". The neighbor who is very much coming onto him the whole movie long.

And then there's the pool, the high dive. He doesn't want to dive from the high dive, he has to be pushed in by the (probably gay) neighbor, who dives in right after him. And they they play splishy-splashy in the pool before having a shower.

I wonder if the audience just missed the - well, I'd call it subtext, but there was nothing sub about the text - missed the subtext completely back then. Perhaps it's the more modern progressive take on "being gay is fine", but it seemed a very in-your-face theme.

****EDIT****
Oh, never mind. I went and watched what extras were there - the deleted scene where they two guys suck face pretty much puts to rest any notion that there's no gay subtext here.

[Vito Cipriani]

Originally Posted by El_Fez

I finally got a chance to spin up The Cannibal Man, and I want to bounce a thought off you guys: was that a gay movie? Okay, follow this line of logic. . . .

You have Marcos, a fellow with a secret. Everyone he knows is either "You need to go to the cops" or "I had no idea you were capable of that" or wants to rind out what's in that room. Everyone who learns his secret, he murders to keep silent.

Everyone except for the neighbor from the high rise. The neighbor who says "Lets go hang out" or "You go to the gym? I should come along with you some time". The neighbor who is very much coming onto him the whole movie long.

And then there's the pool, the high dive. He doesn't want to dive from the high dive, he has to be pushed in by the (probably gay) neighbor, who dives in right after him. And they they play splishy-splashy in the pool before having a shower.

I wonder if the audience just missed the - well, I'd call it subtext, but there was nothing sub about the text - missed the subtext completely back then. Perhaps it's the more modern progressive take on "being gay is fine", but it seemed a very in-your-face theme.

The footage dealing with the homosexual subtext was recognised as such trimmed from the domestic Spanish release by the censors; that edit of the film (in comparison with the export version) contained a little more footage involving the slaughterhouse.

There's an interesting article about it here: https://proyectonaschy.com/2015/04/0...-mas-completa/

[babybreese]

Spanish censorship was incredibly tough on sexuality of all kinds being portrayed in film until Franco ( not Jess ) died in 1975.

[emmet otter]

Can someone tell me the run times of each version? It says it has two cuts. Is the one uncut to around 107 min?

[LloydK]

The German BD has by far the best picture quality and has the normal theatrical version which runs 98 mins. and 11 mins of deleted scenes.

Code Red has the extended 107 min. version.

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=11603&d2=5548&c=2265

[TrentW1982]

I have the Spanish blu-ray which has the extended version. It has two audio tracks each for the Spanish or English options, and like the Code Red release the English dub switches to Spanish for the 'extended' scenes from the Spanish cut, with English subtitles.

Unfortunately, the Spanish audio track (which is by far the preferred one) also only has English subtitles for those extended scenes though, not the rest of the film. So while it's great having the original Spanish track, it's useless if you don't speak Spanish.

I'm not sure which transfer it uses.

Great film though!

[Alexcap]

88Films have had cannibal man certified as a 15 by the bbfc and its uncut.