#human subjectivity

Meat the neighbours: Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)

The Texas chain saw massacre was named by Total Film as number one of the fifty greatest horror movies of all time. It spawned a number of sequels and prequels, but none as ground-breaking as the original, which was remastered in 2004 in 4K, making it that much more graphic. Timesaid that it set “a new standard for slasher films”. The concept of a vulnerable woman being terrorised by a monster…

Waste not, want not: “Soylent Green” (Fleischer 1973)

SPOILER ALERT!!

Yeah, but this movie 45 years old, so if you haven’t seen it by now, you’re either not going to, or if you are, it’s because you found out (maybe from this blog) that it’s a cannibal film! So: that IS the spoiler.

Soylent Green presents quite a different picture of survival cannibalism to Alive. Starting with…

“Cannibalism is not a crime” – S.African expert

The trial is about to start of five men in KwaZulu Natal in relation to alleged cannibalism. In July 2017, a man appeared at Estcourt police station and claimed he was “tired of eating human flesh”. This led to his and the others’ arrests, after body parts were discovered in their possession. When the men first appeared in court, police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up crowds…