Diary of a Cannibal (Widescreen) | 
 enlarge | Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Trevor Parsons, Jillian Swanson, Michael Barbour (ii), Danielle Petty, Jacqueline Page
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 28878
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 82
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED21132D
UPC: 012236211327
EAN: 0012236211327
ASIN: B000N2HBIY
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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Product Description
Inspired by a real-life case of a woman who murdered & consumed her lover - liver & all! - in a strange act of consensual love. They met on the internet & fell in love drove to the desert & stopped at an abandoned warehouse & found unspeakable horror. Only one of them survived to write the diary of a cannibal. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 81 minutes Rating: R
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It never stops! December 14, 2007
This is the worst movie i've seen in a long time. It's a cool idea, but everything about the finshed product just.....well, it sucks. Hard. :sigh: when will Ulli Lommel stop?
Beyond awful September 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've had the misfortune of seeing this "movie", you know what I'm talking about. Supposedly based on a real life crime, this is the story of a couple that meets on the internet and fall in love. In order to achieve true together-ness, the boyfriend decides that that girlfriend must literally eat his heart. So, after thinking about, she decides to do just that. Later, she's arrested and severely beaten by immates who had been paid off by her boyfriend's mother. Dying in the hospital, she re-tells the who story to a pair of detectives.
There are so many problems with this movie. While the premise sounds vaguely interesting, it seems like the writers and directer simply could not flesh it out. The movie is loaded with the same shots shown two, three, or four times. Other times, there are extended scenes where the girl, after killing her boyfriend, simply does nothing but walk around or ride around town on a scooter. Maybe the filmmakers could have used the time develop the backstory and try to figure out A) Why the boyfriend would want to do this, and B) why the girlfriend would agree to it. At one point, the boyfriend simply throws out the idea of eating his heart, and when his girlfriend recoils, it suddenly dawns on him that his girlfriend must not love him. What?!?! Then, deciding that she really does love him, she agrees to the plan. Again, what?!?! I mean, I love my wife and child, but being eaten by them does not seem like the best way I can prove my love. We don't really learn anything about the backstories of these characters except that the girl's father died when she was young and that the guy's mother really loves him. In fact, we see flashbacks of the mother telling her son this and hear voiceovers from the father to his daughter, from letters he wrote her before his death from some disease. Neither of these things add anything to the story nor do they explain the motivations of the characters, unless the boyfriend took mom's "I love you so much I could eat you up" quote literally.
Another problem is the direction. The pacing is awful. The movie crawls along at a snails pace. The story is told in non-sequential flashbacks, which isn't really a good way to tell a story. Every time the audience returns to the hospital room where the girl is telling her story, the scene is shot in a blurry, shakey style which, I suppose, is supposed to mirror the girlfriend's state of mind but it really annoying to the viewer.
Lead actress Jillian Swanson is so awful it defies explanation. She shows zero emotion. She has the same expression throughout the whole movie and seems extremely uncomfortable in front of the camera. Lead actor Trevor Parsons is slightly better, but he's not good.
There is absolutely nothing to recommend about this movie. It doesn't even qualify as "so bad its good". How this movie ever got made, much less released, is a complete mystery to me. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Horrible horrible horrible x 10000000 movie September 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a bad bad movie. The "film" has the same scenes playing over and over again and over again. The scenes are just recycled and repeated at nauseaum. The movie has barely any plot, uses some of the same sets of Zombie Nation (another horrible Lommel movie) and has pathetic and horrible acting.
The movie is about a couple who is in love. The boy wants to be with the girl forever. Seemingly he wants to create an unbreakable bond with her. Instead of marriage, he decides that she must eat his heart. Yes, psychotic, but so is the movie. Although reluctant at first, the girl later agrees. The story starts as the girl is being questioned by the police when she is in a mental institution (another "Zombie Nation" recycled set). The story is told through flashbacks as the couple get on their trailer home to a storage space to prepare for the "event".
The story attemps, yet miserably fails, to make some social commentary. The social commentary, what little there is of it, gets lost in the flimsy plot and bad acting. There is very little emotion displayed by the actors and the little there is, is forced and fake.
I fast forwarded through most of the movie. Most of the scenes are recycled and others have barely any dialogue at all. There is a lot of walking and pondering by the actors, too much of it.
In conclusion, please do not watch this movie. It is the worst waste of anyone's time. If you want to watch it just because everyone says it's so bad, stop and change your decision. It is really bad.
Don't waste your time or money. September 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here's another one of the once competent director Ulli Lommel's recent micro-budget movies. This time it's about a young couple who meet on the internet, fall in love, and the girl eats the guy. Told mostly in flashbacks, with minimum amounts of dialogue, the story would be enough for a fifteen minute short film, but Lommel somehow managed to stretch it out to feature length and needless to say, the result is an extremely slow, very boring movie with lots of scenes that add nothing to the "plot" (if there ever was one). You sit around waiting for something to happen but it never does.
Don't waste your time or money.
Garbage! August 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was honestly the worst movie I have ever endured. By the time I made it to the 30 minute marker, I began fast forwarding. There was barely a word of dialogue, so I knew I wouldn't miss an important passage, and the movie largely consisted of the same 3 flashback scenes being played over and over and over again.
Besides, who cooks their lover's heart and vital organs on a gas grill for 45 minutes? There's a reason why people don't grill up hearts of any species, and if you left a heart on the grill for 45 minutes to go on a scooter ride, you'd probably come back to charred lump, which you'd still have to choke down because otherwise, why'd you kill him?
If I ever met director Ulli Lommel in person, I would seriously be tempted to eat his heart, just to prevent him from making another devastating failure like this one.
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