Newlyweds Clifford (Eugene Levy, AMERICAN PIE) and Gloria (Andrea Martin, BLACK CHRISTMAS and its remake) go way off the beaten path for a honeymoon in the snowy Canadian town of Farmhaven. The innkeeper Mrs. Wainwright (May Jarvis) tells them of the legend of the Cannibal Girls who lured men to their isolated farmhouse to kill and eat; then, of course, she recommends that they sample the local cuisine at a gourmet restaurant now residing in the same old farmhouse. The restaurant is run by the top-hatted and cloaked Reverend Alex St. John (Ronald Ulrich) and is staffed by three beautiful women (Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson, and Mira Pawluk) and a hunchbacked henchman (Bunker). Although suitably spooked, the couple are persuaded to stay the night rather than walk home in the dark. After settling in and falling asleep, the couple are startled as the Reverend and the women enter their room and try to hypnotically compel Gloria to kill her husband. Gloria runs screaming into the night only to wake up back in her motel room bed with Clifford. He convinces Gloria that it was all a dream, but Gloria soon finds all of her attempts to leave town blocked. It it all in her head or is the story of the Cannibal Girls all too true? The above scenario would be enough for a slow-paced, effective low budget horror movie but director Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS) made the commercial friendly decision during the initial planning (the scripting was quite loose) and then again afterward to "open up" the still quite short 83 minute film to encompass some additional characters for padding and for additional gore. The vignette involving the three cannibal girls luring three men to their home in various ways and then consuming them goes on long enough for the audience to assume it is happening concurrently with the Gloria/Clifford story only for it to be revealed as an extended flashback rendering of the legend told by Mrs. Wainwright (although the fashions in the flashback scene look no different from the rest of the film). Levy and Martin improvise their way comically through the film but Ulrich seems to be playing it straight - if a little theatrical - and other scenes seem to be randomly straight and others blackly comic. The effect is uneven but it still plays like a cool drive-in chiller with an ending that suggests it might be ideally paired with Michael Findlay's SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (or possibly the uncut version of TERROR AT RED WOLF INN, which seem to be most accessible in its cut version[s]). Had CANNIBAL GIRLS not disappeared from AIP's circulation (other than a rare Canadian VHS which did not include AIP's "warning bell" gimmick), this film, its trailers, and advertising might have been gotten more notice during the recent resurgent interest in the "Grindhouse" phenomenon.