Canada, 1973
84m
35mm film, colour
mono, English
A Canadian horror film directed by Ivan Reitman.
Plot Summary
A young couple find themselves stranded in a remote, eerie town. The locals tell them a local legend about three women who used to lure men back to their home and eat them – but is it really just a legend?
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
© Scary Pictures Corp. 1972
Scary Pictures presents
Executive Producer: Ivan Reitman
Produced by: Daniel Goldberg
Screenplay by: Robert Sandler
The dialogue was developed by the cast
From an original story by Robert Sandler with Daniel Goldberg and Ivan Reitman
Director of Photography: Robert Saad
Edited by: Daniel Goldberg
Music by: Doug Riley
Location Sound: David Lee
Costume Coordinator: Randall Carpenter
Special Effects: Richard Whyte, Michael Lotosky
Cast
Eugene Levy (Clifford Sturges)
Andrea Martin (Gloria Wellaby)
Ronald Ulrich (Reverend Alex St. John)
Alan Gordon (Rick)
Allan Price (Felix)
Earl Pomerantz (3rd victim)
Bob McHeady (Sheriff)
May Jarvis (Mrs Wainwright)
Gino Marrocco (Mouse) [credited as “Gina Marrocco” in the end credits]
Rick Maguire (gas station attendant)
Randall Carpenter (Anthea)
Bonnie Neilson (Clarissa)
Mira Pawluk (Leona)
Bunker as himself
Kingfish [real name: Fishka Rais] (butcher)
Marion Swadron (Mrs Wilson)
Ray Lawlor (doctor)
Neil Lundy (brother)
Joan Fox (cop's wife)
Alternative Titles
Cannibal Girls – Der Film mit der Warnglocke – West German title
Des filles cannibales – French Canadian title
Mujeres canÃbales – Spanish title
Links
Extracts included in
Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996)
Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987)
Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film (2004)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.21 p.46 – review (Frankenstein at large: Films)
Books
- American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig pp.84-85
- American International Pictures: A Filmography by Robert L. Ottoson p.239 – credits, synopsis, review
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.229
- Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008 by Bruce G. Hallenbeck pp.216 – credits
- Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures by Mark Thomas McGee pp.304
- Film Review 1976-1977 by F. Maurice Speed p.162 – credits
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.50
