Sawney: Flesh of Man

2012

Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 18% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 1468 1.5K

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Plot summary

Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…

Director

Ricky Wood Photo
Ricky Wood

Top cast

Ross Maxwell Photo
Ross Maxwell as Jamie
William Houston Photo
William Houston as Charlie McGuire
David Hayman Photo
David Hayman as Sawney Bean
Lizzie Brown Photo
Lizzie Brown as Wendy McIntyre
720p.BLU
826.39 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
R
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Jennifer B. 6 / 10

It’s fine if you appreciate blood and gore

It’s fine if you appreciate blood and gore cheesy horror. Doesn’t really give you much of a plot.
Reviewed by R T 2 / 10

Sawney: Flesh of Man is terrible movie that

Sawney: Flesh of Man is terrible movie that tries to be a Scottish Wolf Creek mixed with American horror style cannibalism, but the overacting on the villain's part, and the cheap style of direction detracts any chance of enjoyment from this substance-less blood-fest. The story is a mix-up, it struggles to maintain consistency, and the stupid "twist" makes half the film worthless. Sawney: Flesh of Man has received little attention and little praise for good reason, it has nothing of value.
Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

In short: Ample blood&gore, exactly as advertised, but

In short: Ample blood&gore, exactly as advertised, but the story desperately needed a consistent plot and some background about local folklore I saw this film at the Imagine film festival 2013 in Amsterdam. As could be expected from the synopsis on the festival website, a lot of blood&gore was prominently showcased. Somewhat less expected is that we got it together with several quotes from the Bible, a combination that was not really explained. It was a good idea to use the journalist as binding element to tie the story together. There was also a parallel story about a police inspector, who for a long time failed to solve the mystery of the disappearing people. Of course, his superiors were not happy about it. (*** warning *** spoiler ahead ***) In hindsight, we know why he failed. His connection with the underground (literally) operations were left unclear, however. Could he be a distant relative of the "insane family of inbred killers" (quote from official film website). Maybe such an explanation is not really necessary, but I certainly missed it to wrap up the plot. All in all, I gave a so-so (3 out of 5) score for the audience award when leaving the theater: it was certainly well written and well executed, but lacked a consistent story and a plot, not even some sort of reason why it all happened as it happened. Of course, for those who are willing to read between the lines, it can be that the initial visit of a doctor to assist in the birth of a baby, being the last living survivor of a species that lived on human remains (as per the voice over), may serve as a vehicle to explain what happened after the prologue. That this cannibal family is "legendary" does not suffice for us, who know nothing about local folklore and related legends. This could have been explained better to prepare us for the desperately needed context. The 90 minutes running time is not that long that it cannot bear an extension with another 5 minutes to allow us connecting the dots. What remained is a lot of bloodthirsty killing without any purpose. The festival audience ranked this film nearly last (45th place out of 48) with average score 5.39 (out of 10).
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