If you want a badly acted amateur flick about flesh eaters then this is the flick for you. The team tries to make a production with some credibility as a historical account, but the acting is absolutely flat and poor, and presented with such terrible and inconsistent accents, that you are constantly reminded this movie was made by people with no real acting experience or training. Nor is there a sense that they had a whole lot of knowledge of the era they are supposed to be depicting, although historically speaking they weren't completely off either. There are a couple moment where we see some acting, most notably from the cannibal leader, but these moments are usually measurable in seconds so overall I can't applaud the performances.
The story is fraught with other unfortunate things as well. The director rather jarringly jumps eras to further try to support the idea that it is a historical account (and to set up a rather conspicuous ''twist''), there is a largely (IMO) unneeded narrator exposition aspect, the horror elements are clumsy and overdone, the action sequences are terribly staged and executed, the cinematography is choppy and plagued with problems, the sound is a bit problematic at times, the built sets are at times waaaay too obviously cheap, and, well, pretty much everything about it was the epitome of amateur. I did go into it expecting that though, and to its credit I didn't turn it off so that is something.
But in my header I alluded to it having ''a bit of something'', so what does it have?
It had some comedic value... albeit more unintentionally than it probably wanted, and it had some fairly authentic costumes and props (I suspect a lot of historical reenactment people were involved there), but it wasn't any of these things that kind of impressed me.
It was the concept. They really tried to flesh out (if you will forgive the pun) the cannibals in a way that I found interesting, and I think in that hands of a professional crew with a large budget this movie could actually be a really dark and horrific tale. I won't say that I recommend this movie, but it does have a bit of something so there are worse things you could watch.
