“Escape From Cannibal Farm” (** out of four) was a grisly horror melodrama set in the British countryside in which an estranged family (Kate Davies-Speak, David Lenik, Rowena Bentley) take a trip together and are forced to seek refuge in an abandoned farmhouse where they find a deranged farmer (Barrington De La Roche) and his nutty family are doing cannibalistic experiments. Too derivative and repetitive to succeed as a whole but director Charlie Steeds shows flashes of originality and daring (there is a nasty moment involving hot water at the end) in a story obviously inspired and influenced by “The Evil Dead” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. Definitely not for all tastes but better than most of its ilk.

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