Paul Fishbein, president of
Adult Video News, allegedly referred to
Cannibalism and the rest of the Extreme Associates library as "horrible, unwatchable, disgusting, aberrant movies". Recarts Movies Erotica denounced film as "nothing shocking", while a score of 7.05 out of 10.00 was awarded by Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews, which criticized the effects and regarded the attempts at horror as "silly". The Encyclopedia of Cannibal Movies wrote that
Cannibalism was "the most overtly
cannibalistic 'adult' movie made to date" and "definitely not the sort of porn you see every day".
The Village Voice described the film as "cartoonish" but admitted "scarily enough, gore and porn make perfect bedfellows". Adult Industry News found
Cannibalism both erotic and disgusting, and called it "a real must see for the forced sex crowd, fake
snuff crowd, and
gross out crowd". ==References==