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The next day, problems arise. Animals ate all the food supplies during the night and they can no longer find their way out of the forest because the map was destroyed by the rain. Ursula's father will not pick them up for another 5 days. While Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun try to make the best of the situation, Tom's condition worsens, especially because of his hunger. After he was about to fight with Friedrich, Tom wants to have some peace and quiet for a while and walks aimlessly through the forest, where he later discovers a forest hut, but without any food supplies but with lots of tools. When the owner comes in, Tom accidentally kills him with an axe out of fear, whereupon the owner dies. When Tom sees the corpse, he is traumatized and remembers his murder of his parents, which causes his mental disorders to reappear. Because of his hunger, he decides to eat the dead owner's flesh, which, to his surprise, tastes very good. | The next day, problems arise. Animals ate all the food supplies during the night and they can no longer find their way out of the forest because the map was destroyed by the rain. Ursula's father will not pick them up for another 5 days. While Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun try to make the best of the situation, Tom's condition worsens, especially because of his hunger. After he was about to fight with Friedrich, Tom wants to have some peace and quiet for a while and walks aimlessly through the forest, where he later discovers a forest hut, but without any food supplies but with lots of tools. When the owner comes in, Tom accidentally kills him with an axe out of fear, whereupon the owner dies. When Tom sees the corpse, he is traumatized and remembers his murder of his parents, which causes his mental disorders to reappear. Because of his hunger, he decides to eat the dead owner's flesh, which, to his surprise, tastes very good. | ||
Some time later, Tom returns to the campsite. He keeps the forest hut for himself. In the evening, Ursula confronts him about what happened to his medication and warns him about a relapse of his disorders, which Tom finds annoying because he believes that Ursula does not love the real Tom. A heated argument ensues between the two, during which Tom becomes violent towards Ursula and hits her. | Some time later, Tom returns to the campsite. He keeps the forest hut for himself. In the evening, Ursula confronts him about what happened to his medication and warns him about a relapse of his disorders, which Tom finds annoying because he believes that Ursula does not love the real Tom. A heated argument ensues between the two, during which Tom becomes violent towards Ursula and hits her. Friedrich and Gudrun hear the argument and intervene, dragging Tom away from Ursula, whereupon Tom also develops a hatred for both of them, especially after his suspicions that the two of them were gossiping about his problems behind his back turn out to be true. Full of hatred and anger, Tom goes back to the forest hut, while his mind tries to make it clear to him that Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun, like his parents, are standing in his way and actually all hate him, and that he should kill them too. | ||
==Production== | ==Production== | ||
Revision as of 10:52, 28 December 2024
| The Insane Cannibal Der wahnsinnige Kannibale | |
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 Original release movie poster from 1969 | |
| Directed by | Helmut Rommel |
| Screenplay by | Helmut Rommel |
| Based on | Forest Cannibal by Sigmund Scharf |
| Produced by | Helmut Rommel |
| Starring | Lisa Albrecht Egon Möller Peter Butzbach Katharina Vogel Volker Partau Emanuel Niederklaus |
| Music by | Georg Adam |
| Distributed by | Flingor Studios |
Release date | 24 October 1969 |
Running time | 1h 40min |
| Country |  Besmenia |
| Language | Besmenian |
| Budget | BS 2.2 million |
| Box office | BS 9.4 million |
The Insane Cannibal (Besmenian: Der wahnsinnige Kannibale) is a 1969 Besmenian psychological horror splatter film adapted, produced, and directed by Helmut Rommel, based on the 1945 novel Forest Cannibal by Sigmund Scharf.
Plot
The 34-year-old Tom Meyer, who is no longer classified as mentally disturbed and now apparently cured, is released from the psychiatric clinic after 22 years after he had a serious nervous breakdown at the age of 12 and murdered his parents. However, he has to take various medications regularly to get his disorders under control. Tom moves in with his girlfriend Ursula Jahn, whom Tom met in 1966 during a visit to the psychiatric clinic and who they have kept in touch with by letter since then.
Together with Friedrich and Gudrun Bleimann, a young couple who are friends with Ursula, Tom and Ursula go on a camping trip in the middle of the huge Riethwald forest, where they are all driven by Ursula's father. The trip doesn't start off great for Tom, as he realizes that Friedrich and Gudrun are secretly judging him negatively because of his past, and he loses all his medication after he accidentally falls over and the medication falls into a lake, which he keeps secret from Ursula.
The next day, problems arise. Animals ate all the food supplies during the night and they can no longer find their way out of the forest because the map was destroyed by the rain. Ursula's father will not pick them up for another 5 days. While Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun try to make the best of the situation, Tom's condition worsens, especially because of his hunger. After he was about to fight with Friedrich, Tom wants to have some peace and quiet for a while and walks aimlessly through the forest, where he later discovers a forest hut, but without any food supplies but with lots of tools. When the owner comes in, Tom accidentally kills him with an axe out of fear, whereupon the owner dies. When Tom sees the corpse, he is traumatized and remembers his murder of his parents, which causes his mental disorders to reappear. Because of his hunger, he decides to eat the dead owner's flesh, which, to his surprise, tastes very good.
Some time later, Tom returns to the campsite. He keeps the forest hut for himself. In the evening, Ursula confronts him about what happened to his medication and warns him about a relapse of his disorders, which Tom finds annoying because he believes that Ursula does not love the real Tom. A heated argument ensues between the two, during which Tom becomes violent towards Ursula and hits her. Friedrich and Gudrun hear the argument and intervene, dragging Tom away from Ursula, whereupon Tom also develops a hatred for both of them, especially after his suspicions that the two of them were gossiping about his problems behind his back turn out to be true. Full of hatred and anger, Tom goes back to the forest hut, while his mind tries to make it clear to him that Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun, like his parents, are standing in his way and actually all hate him, and that he should kill them too.
Production
Filming began in December 1968 and ended in June 1969. Some of the scenes in the Hanbei forest were shot in the Summingian forest.
Leagcy
Despite the almost 30 year ban, the film was a great success for Rommel and the actors and developed into a cult film among horror fans.
Trivia
- The first broadcast on Besmenian television was on November 24, 2000 in the night program of BTV.
- On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the film, The Insane Cannibal was shown again in a restored version in November 2019 in several Besmenian cinemas.