URBAN CANNIBAL MASSACRE is a gruesome indie horror flick previously titled MEAT THE JONES. It reminded me of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre mixed up with a blaxploitation effort in the story of a family that kills and cannibalises in order to stay together. Filmed on a zero budget, this has an extremely cheap filming style and lots of poor acting, alongside a predictable storyline. However, the featured kills are very gruesome indeed and make full use of some ultra-grisly sound effects, so at least gorehounds will be entertained.
4 Reviews
Urban Cannibal Massacre
nogodnomasters9 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Matt (Joe Frese) goes missing in Akron, Ohio while cycling across country to visit his family in Boston. When he falls off the grid, his family comes to look for him, only to discover he has fallen prey to a bunch of bad actors. They opt to investigate and you could write a better script at this point.
The acting was bad with a special shout out to Octavious Maximus (seriously?) who played Terrance and I hope has luck with his other profession. The film also had bad hollow sound as well as bad puns concerning "dark meat" and "having for dinner" used with every comedy cannibal film out there.
If you like this type of film, I would recommend "Microwave Massacre" (1983) instead.
Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity
The acting was bad with a special shout out to Octavious Maximus (seriously?) who played Terrance and I hope has luck with his other profession. The film also had bad hollow sound as well as bad puns concerning "dark meat" and "having for dinner" used with every comedy cannibal film out there.
If you like this type of film, I would recommend "Microwave Massacre" (1983) instead.
Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity
Poor Texas Chainsaw Massacre Imitation
vengeance204 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The title sounds TCM esque & you'd think judging by that & the cover art, that it would be somewhat good. But sadly, it seems to be more cheaper and nastier version of the film.
The plot of the film follows a group who go looking for their friend who went missing while on a bike ride in Ohio, however they soon discover that their friends has fallen victim to a group of Black Cannibals who eat/cut up white people and sell them on for a price,
I found the film to be cheap, shoddily filmed & poor overall. While the gore effects were pretty good and really went all out, I felt the film wasn't exactly scary or sinister as such, I mean, it was grisly and gruesome, but it didn't feel like a horror.
You could tell it was cheaply made with the hollow sound effects, the poor lighting, grainy footage and sound in general, not to mention the way it was made which didn't exactly sell it to me and made it hard to take seriously. The story itself was bland and lacked impact, the ending was eye rolling...
Overall a poor TCM Imitation which fails to be as good or better. However, the gore was pretty decent. 3/10.
The plot of the film follows a group who go looking for their friend who went missing while on a bike ride in Ohio, however they soon discover that their friends has fallen victim to a group of Black Cannibals who eat/cut up white people and sell them on for a price,
I found the film to be cheap, shoddily filmed & poor overall. While the gore effects were pretty good and really went all out, I felt the film wasn't exactly scary or sinister as such, I mean, it was grisly and gruesome, but it didn't feel like a horror.
You could tell it was cheaply made with the hollow sound effects, the poor lighting, grainy footage and sound in general, not to mention the way it was made which didn't exactly sell it to me and made it hard to take seriously. The story itself was bland and lacked impact, the ending was eye rolling...
Overall a poor TCM Imitation which fails to be as good or better. However, the gore was pretty decent. 3/10.
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godinamachine11 January 2022
HEY EVERYBODY ITS ME, (4) and today we review ....
so imma start off by saying ...i have a problem with this one .... the infamous killer of indie films SOUND ..... MANY thing can be forgiven in low to no budget films .... BUT if you have GOOD quality sound then for some odd reason .... the audience can trick their mind into accepting things like bad lighting or acting etc ... but IF you have bad sound .... it brings all the rest crashing down .......at the 27 minute mark theres a phone call ...and the "voice" on the other end of the cell phone cal be heard ..and its the silly "cartoon" style jibberish sounds .... now ..... using cartoon like sounds ...lol.... if bad sound is a killer then cartoon sounds are the knife .......
the other issue i have and this is with MANY of the youtube free film channels .... they always cut the gore out ...the crop zoom in garbage ...... i get it ..youtube slap all us small content creators and "nobodies" for doing the slightest thing they dont like yet the big boys get away with things that the guidelines were literally made to stop .. but it still sucks not seeing all the glory of the intended scenes and i also imagine some of those moments where i cant tell what is happening and it looks like some sort of cabinets in the background because of how zoomed in it is ....is some sort of sexy times going on lol...
5:50 = great job 28 minutes in the dialogue between the black dude and the girlfriend is funny ...
and throughout the film i enjoyed alot of it NOW the plot line on imbd says this "humorous " tale .... lol.. uhm ..no ... after reading that i kind of expected a comedy aspect to this one ...and it DID have a few moments here or there BUT for sure not enough to use that in the story plot .........over all its a decent take on the cannibal family cliche' only with urban black people instead of white hillbillies ...and of course some of the "casual" race commentary IS in this film BUT not so much that it make it more about being PC or WOKE etc , so it doesnt have some extreme "we hate white people "message BUT it does have the black unity of "we dont eat our own" etc ....and that makes sense so i appreciate the story being realistic in that sense .....(just to try and be super clear so no one gets offended or misunderstands me here .... im saying the movie isnt super hate full either way for any reason ...but does hold to the "we stay with our own people" thing going on in the story )
so over all heres what i think .. this film is a great idea and only suffers from no budget and a bit of rough editing (probably due to youtube stuff ) personally i loved the characters ...especially HOPSIN all grown up LOL .... if you get that then your awesome ...... but the family thing worked ... the acting was stiff and some were........well.... i mean ..... they were there at least ..... so ..good job ......... so im judging this strictly on the NO budget scale
7/10.
so imma start off by saying ...i have a problem with this one .... the infamous killer of indie films SOUND ..... MANY thing can be forgiven in low to no budget films .... BUT if you have GOOD quality sound then for some odd reason .... the audience can trick their mind into accepting things like bad lighting or acting etc ... but IF you have bad sound .... it brings all the rest crashing down .......at the 27 minute mark theres a phone call ...and the "voice" on the other end of the cell phone cal be heard ..and its the silly "cartoon" style jibberish sounds .... now ..... using cartoon like sounds ...lol.... if bad sound is a killer then cartoon sounds are the knife .......
the other issue i have and this is with MANY of the youtube free film channels .... they always cut the gore out ...the crop zoom in garbage ...... i get it ..youtube slap all us small content creators and "nobodies" for doing the slightest thing they dont like yet the big boys get away with things that the guidelines were literally made to stop .. but it still sucks not seeing all the glory of the intended scenes and i also imagine some of those moments where i cant tell what is happening and it looks like some sort of cabinets in the background because of how zoomed in it is ....is some sort of sexy times going on lol...
5:50 = great job 28 minutes in the dialogue between the black dude and the girlfriend is funny ...
and throughout the film i enjoyed alot of it NOW the plot line on imbd says this "humorous " tale .... lol.. uhm ..no ... after reading that i kind of expected a comedy aspect to this one ...and it DID have a few moments here or there BUT for sure not enough to use that in the story plot .........over all its a decent take on the cannibal family cliche' only with urban black people instead of white hillbillies ...and of course some of the "casual" race commentary IS in this film BUT not so much that it make it more about being PC or WOKE etc , so it doesnt have some extreme "we hate white people "message BUT it does have the black unity of "we dont eat our own" etc ....and that makes sense so i appreciate the story being realistic in that sense .....(just to try and be super clear so no one gets offended or misunderstands me here .... im saying the movie isnt super hate full either way for any reason ...but does hold to the "we stay with our own people" thing going on in the story )
so over all heres what i think .. this film is a great idea and only suffers from no budget and a bit of rough editing (probably due to youtube stuff ) personally i loved the characters ...especially HOPSIN all grown up LOL .... if you get that then your awesome ...... but the family thing worked ... the acting was stiff and some were........well.... i mean ..... they were there at least ..... so ..good job ......... so im judging this strictly on the NO budget scale
7/10.
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