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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us...
Publisher
NBC Universal Media
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gow is not only a true curiosity but also in many ways a key influence of later Cooper and Schoedsack productions including King Kong. The footage in Gow was produced by Edward A. Salisbury, a wealthy British adventurer, who in 1920 set sail in an 80-ton yacht equipped with a motion picture laboratory to, in his words, catch and hold for history a photo record of the fast, disappearing races of the South Seas Islands. Cooper and Schoedsack were among...
5) The burbs
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A suspense-comedy in which Tom Hanks portrays a suburbanite whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block.
8) Family
Author
Publisher
13Thirty Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In Matthew Costello's post-apocalyptic thriller, Vacation, NYPD cop Jack Murphy leaves the city with his wife, Christie, and kids, Kate and Simon. Retreating to the supposed safety of a bucolic camp for families, Jack discovers that the plague of cannibalism that has claimed so many cities, is here as well. And only his self-sacrifice will enable his wife, his kids...to get out. In Home Christie tries to return to the gated security of their home....
Publisher
NBCUniversal, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn between saving himself and keeping Will close to him, despite...
10) Delicatessen
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
In a futuristic society where meat is a rare commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky horror-comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with lack of inspiration. When Lars’ art dealer Ronny arranges a teaching job in a small town as a “therapeutic measure” to stir up his creative juices, things don’t quite turn out as planned. At first, life in the peaceful small town seems rosy, as he settles in and impresses...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In November 1873, a party of 21 prospectors left Salt Lake City and headed towards the mountains. Two months later, they arrived at the Ute Indian encampment where they were urged to wait out the winter. After two weeks, 6 men including 23-year old Alferd Packer who acted as their guide, decided to try to make it to an Indian agency 75 miles away. 65 days later, only Alferd Packer arrived at the agency. Over a year later the remains of the missing...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret...
16) Bones & all
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the...
18) Stranded
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes Mountains share their stories of the crash and how they lived by turning to cannibalism in the extreme conditions.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Wes Craven's cult classic finds an all-American suburban family fighting for their lives against an inbred family of marauding cannibals. Stuck in the desert after their car breaks down, the Carter family become play-things for the bloodthirsty clan.
20) Vacation
Author
Series
Jack Murphy novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
When populations throughout the world turn predatory in the face of global famines, NYPD cop Jack Murphy moves his family to a peaceful mountain compound before discovering a sinister truth that threatens everyone's survival.
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