Grave (original title)
(2016) 99 min
Rated: R (gore, nudity, sex, animal corpses)
Country: France | Belgium | Italy
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
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Rating: ★★★★★
A young woman enters veterinary school and develops a taste for flesh.
Wrong Turn
(2003) 84 Min.
Rated: R (gore)
Country: USA
Director: Rob Schmidt
Starring: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto
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Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Some people turn down the wrong dirt road and get lost in a forest where a cannibalistic mutant family hunts them down.
The Neon Demon
(2016) 118 Min.
Rated: R (Gore, nudity, necrophilia)
Country: USA / France / Denmark
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Jena Malone, Karl Glusman
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Rating: ★★☆☆☆
An aspiring model moves to LA and becomes sought after, much to the jealousy of her new friends.
We Are What We Are a.k.a. Somos lo que hay
(2010) 90 Min.
Rated: NR (Gore, nudity)
Country: Mexico
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato
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Rating: ★★★★☆
An urban family of cannibals has their world thrown into chaos when the head of their family dies suddenly.
The Green Inferno
(2015) 100 Min.
Rated: R (very gory)
Country: Chile / USA
Director: Eli Roth
Starring: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns
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Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
A young woman joins an activist group to protest the destruction of a jungle tribe and gets captured by that tribe.
Cannibal Holocaust
(1980) 95 Min.
Rated: Unrated. (nudity, excessive gore, sex, rape, genuine cruelty to animals*)
Country: Italy
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Robert Kerman, Luca Barbareschi
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Rating: ★★★☆☆
One of the first “found footage” films and also one of the most controversial. Documentary filmmakers set off to explore and antagonize the jungle.
* Real animal deaths on screen: A coatimundi, a turtle, a tarantula, a snake, a monkey, a pig, fish.
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