- Year
- 1980
- Country
- Italy · Spain · USA
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Director
- Antonio Margheriti
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Cannibal Apocalypse · Cannibals in the City · Cannibal Massacre · Cannibals in the Streets · Invasion of the Flesh Hunters · The Slaughterers
- Banned in
- UK
Cannibal Apocalypse
A prosecuted DPP video nasty, released in Britain as Cannibals in the Streets.
Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.
Vietnam veterans come home carrying an infection that turns them into flesh-eaters, and the film treats the cannibalism as a literal disease spreading through a paranoid America. Antonio Margheriti directs John Saxon as a vet trying to hold himself together as the hunger takes hold.
It is more restrained and more coherent than the jungle cannibal films, closer to a zombie-outbreak picture with a genuine subtext about trauma coming home. The flamethrower-in-the-sewer finale delivers.
An unusually thoughtful entry in a genre not known for it.
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