Eating Miss Campbell

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Eating Miss Campbell
Directed by Liam Regan
Written byLiam Regan
Produced byLiam Regan
Lloyd Kaufman
Starring
CinematographyHamish Saks
Edited byJack Hayes
Music by Joe Renzetti
Production
companies
Refuse Films
Troma Entertainment
Dereks Dont Run Films
Distributed byRefuse Films (United Kingdom)
Troma Entertainment (United States)
Release date
  • 26 August 2022 (2022-08-26)(FrightFest)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Eating Miss Campbell is a 2022 British comedy horror film directed by Liam Regan, starring Lyndsey Craine, Lala Barlow, Vito Trigo, Laurence R. Harvey, James Hamer-Morton, Charlie Bond, Emily Haigh, Michaela Longden, Sierra Summers, Alexander J Skinner, Justin A. Martell, Annabella Rich, Dani Thompson and Blade Braxton.

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Premise

Beth is a vegan high-school student at Henenlotter. She falls in love with her newly arrived English teacher, Miss Campbell, who triggers in her a so far unknown appetite for human flesh. Beth is hoping to win the yearly school contest ('All you can eat massacre') to get rid of girls who are harassing her.

Cast

Release

The film premiered at FrightFest on 26 August 2022. [1]

Reception

David Gelmini of Dread Central rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote that it "might just be one of the best high school cannibal movies ever to have been produced." [2]

PopHorror called the film a "hilarious, knives-out, balls-to-the-wall blood fest from beginning to end." [3]

Martin Unsworth of Starburst praised the "spot-on satire on American high school life", the performances and the cinematography. [4]

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References

  1. "EATING MISS CAMPBELL". FrightFest . Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  2. Gelmini, David (2 February 2023). "'Eating Miss Campbell' Is an Outrageous Troma-Produced Cannibal Comedy [Horror-On-Sea 2023 Review]". Dread Central . Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  3. Dugan, Monster (2 February 2023). "Horror-On-Sea 2023 Film Festival – 'EATING MISS CAMPBELL' (2022) – Movie Review". PopHorror. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  4. Unsworth, Martin. "EATING MISS CAMPBELL [FrightFest 2022]". Starburst . Retrieved 21 December 2023.