BR: Dakota (1974)
After a lengthy and prolific partnership with fellow filmmaker Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen’s last formal collaboration for their Scorpio Film shingle was this drama that ran into some extensive problems during production…
After a lengthy and prolific partnership with fellow filmmaker Pim de la Parra, Wim Verstappen’s last formal collaboration for their Scorpio Film shingle was this drama that ran into some extensive problems during production…
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
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