Cannibal Man | 1972 | Spain | Eloy de la Iglesia

With a huge misnomer for a title, this Spanish slow burner is actually about a young man in Francoist-era Spain who finds himself pressured into killing others after he accidentally kills a taxi-driver in self-defence. The people in his life gradually try to convince him to turn himself in, but panicked and afraid of the repercussions, he instead kills anyone insistent on rumbling his secret. More of a character study of a troubled victim of a repressive regime, the film was probably only netted by the DPP for its title (due to the infamy of Cannibal Holocaust). It was nevertheless somehow prosecuted and found guilty of obscenity, despite its restrain in the gore department.