Also known as Apocalypse Tomorrow, and Invasion of the Flesh Hunters.
Man was I confused starting this, because this has one of the guys from Cannibal Ferox in it and I was tricked into thinking I had watched this one already!
This movie starts with a helicopter landing in an unknown foreign land and I steel myself for more tribal cannibal nonsense. But it quickly steers away from that, and I sorta sat up and paid attention. This is...oddly enough...a compelling drama? And a movie sorta about PTSD? And a virus movie? What is this?
Charles Bukowski (what the fuck? he is just named the exact name of the writer, at a time when the writer was still alive?) is rescued from the tribe after eating human flesh. He returns to the real world and at first it seems he has broken to some degree, can't hack it. He attacks a woman in a theater and gets chased by a gang, shoots one of them in self defense. This all spirals into a hostage situation and it quickly becomes apparent that the cannibalism in this movie is treated as a virus, ala zombies, once you get bitten you transmit the craving to the next guy.
With John Saxon as a cop who gets the virus, this had good actors and an original idea. It caught me and enraptured me in the beginning with the hostage stuff, but to be honest it does go a bit downhill after that. It just feels a little bit rinse and repeat after about minute 30, as it just becomes more people getting turned - nothing else really happens that's new.
There's a few slightly grisly leg chopping scenes, there's a couple guts n whatever. Relatively light in the Video Nasty realm.
In the argument "for" or "against" the concept of Video Nasty, this is very slightly "against"
On the Nasty Meter, I give this a 1/10
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