Cannibal Apocalypse will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 17 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1980 Italian/Spanish horror film is also known as Invasion of the Flesh Hunters and as Cannibals in the Streets.
Antonio Margheriti (Yor: The Hunter from the Future) directs from a script he co-wrote with Dardano Sacchetti (Zombie, Demons). John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Tony King star.
The unrated cut of Cannibal Apocalypse has been newly restored in 4K. It features reversible artwork (pictured below). Read on for special features.
Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes
Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. Such scenes had already been traditional parts of tomb-chapel decoration for hundreds of years and show the dead tomb-owner ‘enjoying himself and seeing beauty’, as the hieroglyphic caption here says.
Nebamun was a middle-ranking official “scribe and grain accountant” during the period of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. He is thought to have lived ca. 1350 BC and worked at the vast temple complex near Thebes where the state-god Amun was worshiped. His name was translated as “My Lord is Amun”, and his association with the temple, coupled with the importance of grain supplies to Egypt, meant that he was a person of considerable practical importance, though not of the highest rank.
Fragment of a polychrome painting from the tomb chapel of Nebamun, West Thebes. Now in the British Museum. EA 37977
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Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure, directed in 1981 by Sergio Corbucci
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The Howling (1981)
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Caroline Munro
Countess Dracula (1971)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Great Silence (1968)