The Insane Cannibal (2025 film)
| The Insane Cannibal Der wahnsinnige Kannibale | |
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| File:Movie poster of 2025 The Insane Cannibal.png Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Claudia Schweiger |
| Screenplay by | Viktor Reichert |
| Based on | Forest Cannibal by Sigmund Scharf |
| Produced by | Claudia Schweiger Rainer Bedorn |
| Starring | Marc Pommering Elisa Müller Matthias Baden Julia Aigner |
| Distributed by | Flingor Studios |
Release date | 15 October 1925 |
Running time | 2h 3min |
| Country |  Besmenia |
| Language | Besmenian |
| Budget | BS 16.5 million |
The Insane Cannibal (Besmenian: Der wahnsinnige Kannibale) is a 2025 Besmenian psychological horror splatter film directed by Claudia Schweiger, produced by Schweiger and Rainer Bedorn, and with a screenplay by Viktor Reichert. It is the second adaptation of the 1945 novel Forest Cannibal by Sigmund Scharf and is a remake of Helmut Rommel's 1969 film of the same name. It stars Marc Pommering, Elisa Müller, Matthias Baden and Julia Aignerl. The film follows Tom Meyer, a formerly mentally disturbed man with a cannibal fetish, who, during a camping trip with his girlfriend Sara and a married couple Marcel and Michaela, which goes completely wrong, loses his temper and relapses, rediscovers his penchant for cannibalism and wants to kill all three.
Plot
2000
2024
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 and tried to eat them because of an interest in cannibalism that was awakened in childhood. 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 awakens his desire for cannibalism again.
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. In the hut, Tom takes a chainsaw and files his teeth with a file so that they are pointed and sharp. When it gets dark, Tom goes back to the campsite with the chainsaw to kill the three. While Tom has the chainsaw on and is running towards the campsite, his leg gets tangled in a branch growing from the ground, which wakes Ursula, Friedrich and Gudrun up because of the chainsaw noise and gives them a head start while they escape. During their escape, Tom manages to kill Gudrun with his chainsaw, and after her death he eats her flesh. Meanwhile, Ursula's curse leads her to a large meadow with a telephone booth in the middle. After she locks the cell from the inside, she calls the police. When she has finished making the call, Tom is standing in front of the closed cell, uses a stick to break the already slightly damaged lower pane and tries to reach in with his hand, whereupon Ursula takes a large stone that was lying in the cell and hits Tom's hand with it and flees from him again. Some time later, Tom discovers Friedrich, who flees to the forest hut, where Tom also kills him with his chainsaw, while Friedrich manages to throw wood chips into Tom's eyes beforehand, which partially blinds him. Meanwhile, Ursula manages to get to the entrance to the forest, where the police are already there. Tom, who is half-blind and running through the forest with his chainsaw and screaming for Ursula, comes across a pack of wolves who see him as a threat and attack him. During the attack, Tom accidentally falls off a cliff and dies.