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Cannibal | Parents
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Best Performance by a Younger Actor | 1991 | Bryan
Best Male Lead | 1990 | Randy
1989 | Bob
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 870,532 USD
The film's appropriately bizarre title for its Germany release was 'Daddy ist ein Kannibale', or 'Daddy is a Cannibal!'
The surname of the family in this movie is "Laemle", a likely nod to Carl Laemmle Jr., producer of such horror classics as Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Mummy (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933).
Shot in seven weeks.
The character Millie Dew, played by Sandy Dennis: "Millie Dew" was a play on the word "mildew", which means moldy, musty or damp.
The strange chemical herbicide that Michael's father develops to wipe out foreign jungles at his Toxico job is in fact real, although doesn't work by the same mechanism described in the film. Defoliants Agent Orange, Agent Purple and others were produced in the 20th century by Dow Chemical, and tested in an isolated Canadian military base town in the province of New Brunswick, then later used to wipe out jungles in the Vietnam War. The chemical contained dioxins and was extremely toxic, leading to birth defects and other issues in humans and animals, as well as damaging plant life. Parents was one of a number of satirical horror comedies to reference the Agent chemicals, alongside films such as Return of the Living Dead.
"Lab Attendant: I have here an opportunity [holds out a pen to Michael] Lab Attendant: this pen is made of chemicals, but if I took these same chemicals and recombined them, I could make an automobile, or an electric light! The whole world is made of chemicals Micheal, you can make anything! And if you're smart... you'll make opportunities."
"Nick Laemle: Michael, are you ready to behave? I thought I tell you a little story. Want to hear a story. I tell you a little story and I want you to shut up until I'm finished. Michael Laemle: [Tied to a chair by his father] You eat people. Nick Laemle: I've been watching you, Michael. You're an outsider, you're not like them. You're like us. Michael Laemle: I don't love you any more. Lily Laemle: Yes you do. Nick Laemle: We're bound for life, no matter how much you hate us. Nick Laemle: [as he slowly unties Michael] I'm untying, and when you're free. You can sit down with us an eat, or could run outside and shout your little secret to the world. And you know what they'll do, Michael hmm? They'll come here and they'll burn us. Is that what you want, you want to see them burn your parents? Lily Laemle: Mint jelly?"
