Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)
Nature of Her Hunger: Demonic Possession — the result of a "virgin" sacrifice gone wrong.
Preferred Food Group: Boys, although she might make an exception for Amanda Seyfried.

Cal Thompson's ex-girlfriends (Peeps by Scott Westerfeld)
Nature of Their Hunger: Parasitic Infection, passed along through sexual activity.
Preferred Food Group: Whatever crosses their paths.

Lyekka (Lexx)
Nature of Her Hunger: Innate. She may look humanoid, but she's really a carnivorous plant.
Preferred Food Group: Pretty much anything and everything (including whole crews and countries at once), though she keeps her gums off the Lexx crew, out of affection for Stan.

The (Mostly Female) Carnivorous Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park)
Nature of Their Hunger: Innate. If you're going to keep Raptors and Tyrannosauri around, you have to expect a few casualties.
Preferred Food Group: Meat in general.

Heidi Barrie and Rhonda Kelley (Buffy the Vampire Slayer "The Pack")
Nature of Their Hunger: Hyena Possession, though they weren't very nice to begin with.
Preferred Food Group: High school principals.

Jodi Melville (Smallville, "Craving")
Nature of Her Hunger: Meteor-rock radiation, combined with an intense desire to be thin.
Preferred Food Group: Anything with fat on it.

Bilquis, The Queen of Sheba (American Gods by Neil Gaiman)
Nature of Her Hunger: Sacrificial. She devours men during the sex act to maintain her fertility goddess power.
Preferred Food Group: Men, though her preferred orifice for intake is not her mouth.

Zenelle (Madman)
Nature of Her Hunger: Mantis-like. Females of her species devour their mates.
Preferred Food Group: Men she's bedded, with the exception of one of the Mutant Street Beatniks, with whom she's fallen in love.

The Women of Eureka (Eureka, "Maneater")
Nature of Their Hunger: Chemical. An ancient spore turns the dial up on Carter and Dr. Stone's pheromones, and if what happened to the wolf whose lady friend got a whiff of his pheromones is any indication, the women of Eureka literally want to eat them up.
Preferred Food Group: Carter and Stone, though they never actually manage to sink their teeth into them.

Paula Gray, Doris Kearns and the Other Women of Dudley, Arkansas (The X-Files "Our Town")
Nature of Their Hunger: Cannibalism in an attempt to gain immortality.
Preferred Food Group: Anyone not in the cannibalism club. But they don't screen for diseases, and a good bit of the town ends up with Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

Frau Totenkinder (Fables)
Nature of Her Hunger: Sacrificial. She eats children to increase her magical power.
Preferred Food Group: Children, including her own infants.

Jillian Boone (Fringe, "Midnight")
Nature of Her Hunger: Bacterial. She's been infected with a sort of vampiric syphilis as part of an elaborate blackmail ploy.
Preferred Food Group: Spinal Fluid

The Women of Moodley (Doghouse)
Nature of Their Hunger: Infection by an Airborne Toxin.
Preferred Food Group: Men.

Giganta (DC Comics)
Nature of Her Hunger: Murderous. When you're giant, it's a handy way to dispose of people.
Preferred Food Group: Ryan Choi, The Atom, though just she ends up puking him up later.

Maryann Forrester (True Blood)
Nature of Her Hunger: Epicurean. She happens to know the perfect recipe for human (and shifter) hearts (and makes Tara an unwitting accomplice to her cannibalism), though she also needs a humanoid sacrifice for her god.
Preferred Food Group: She has a particular affinity for supernatural beings, though nothing undead.

Janet Weiss and Columbia (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Nature of Their Hunger: Unwitting. When you're invited to a dinner party, you generally eat what's placed in front of you.
Preferred Food Group: Meat Loaf — as in the person, not the stuff that's baked with tomato sauce.

Lizzie (My Favorite Martian)
Nature of Her Hunger: Monstrous. Thanks to a gumball that transforms humanoids into other creatures, Lizzie (who is normally shaped like Darryl Hannah) turns into a carnivorous alien beast.
Preferred Food Group: Bad guys.

Giggerota the Wicked (Lexx)
Nature of Her Hunger: Epicurean — in her words, she "likes to eat."
Preferred Food Group: Pretty much anything, although she finds brains too salty.

Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors)
Nature of Her Hunger: Innate. She's a mean, green mother from outer space.
Preferred Food Group: Anything human.

Helen Sherman (Torchwood, "Countrycide")
Nature of Her Hunger: Epicurean. She and the other villagers happen to enjoy human flesh.
Preferred Food Group: Travelers.

Miss French (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Teacher's Pet")
Nature of Her Hunger: Mantis-Like. Actually, she is a giant praying mantis.
Preferred Food Group: Male virgins, no matter how much they boast about their supposed "experience."

Every Female Zombie Ever
Nature of Their Hunger: Innate. Fish gotta swim, zombies gotta chomp.
Preferred Food Group: Any living human, but there's sometimes a special emphasis on brains.

They used knives and an ax to cut the flesh off the man's bones, and then apparently picked only the low-fat, muscular regions of his tissue for eating. After discarding the unwanted bits in on the street in the region's capital city Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, they used frying pans to prepare and eat the human meat. The mastermind behind this plan had already served time in prison for murder, so he was obviously homicidally-inclined as well as just desperate for food. Still, it feels like every day we're getting closer to living out plot points from Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

3 Men Arrested in Cannibalism Case [via Moscow Times]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells: In the future, the spoiled Eloi, descendents of the human race, live in comfort and ease on the Earth’s surface, benefiting from the underground toil of their Morlock cousins. But the Morlocks are hardly slaves to the Eloi; they’re just fattening the surface dwellers for the slaughter.

Doomsday: Scottish survivors of a killer plague get terribly excited when visitors from the outside show up on their doorstep. Fresh meat means it’s time for a barbecue.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein: The ritual of cannibalism was a time-honored Martian tradition to show respect to a beloved friend. When Michael Valentine Smith introduces the custom to his followers, some partake, fueling accusations that Smith is leading a freaky cult.

Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury: When humans settle on the planet Geta, they bring with them bees and eight sacred plants. Geta has a handful of native animals, but they are largely toxic. So, the only eating animals left are human beings, and humanity just isn’t ready to go vegetarian.

Torchwood “Countrycide”: What keeps a village happy and cohesive? Shared values? Community service? Regular get-togethers? Or is it that ritual human feast you all partake in every 10 years?

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld: Peeps, or Parasite Positives, contract a parasite through sexual contact and promptly lose their minds and develop an irresistible craving for meat. This combination proves deadly to any humans who wander into the paths of the infected.

“The Washingtonians” by Bentley Little: George Washington: war hero, patriot, cannibal? That’s right, George Washington became a cannibal during the Revolutionary War, but found the taste of human flesh to his liking. That’s why he became president: not to usher in a new era of democracy, but to convert the nation to his dietary regime.

World War Z by Max Brooks: Living through the zombie apocalypse sucks. It’s bad enough that undead are trying to chow down on your flesh, but you also have to deal with survivalists who’ve turned to other humans as sustenance and Z-shock victims who act like they’re zombies, right down to the chewing.

“Food of the Gods” by Arthur C. Clarke: Is the cannibalism taboo moral, or does it just give us icky feelings? In a future where all meat is synthetic, and therefore moral, a company starts making Ambrosia Plus, a foodstuff based on a rather familiar animal. When Ambrosia Plus starts outselling the other faux meats, a competitor reveals that, while Ambrosia Plus isn’t made of people, it sure tastes the same.

Delicatessen: When trying to survive a post-apocalyptic France, it helps to have a landlord with a steady supply of meat. Just don’t get behind on the rent, or you’ll end up beneath the counter.

Doctor Who “The Two Doctors” and “Revelation of the Daleks”: Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor encounters cannibals in fairly close succession. First, there’s Shockeye, who wants to kill, cook, and eat his fellow sentients Jamie and Peri in “The Two Doctors.” Then in “Revelation of the Daleks,” a mortuary on Necros provides raw material for both new army of Daleks and the food for a starving galaxy.

Livewires: Combat robot Stem Cell contains a nanofactory in her innards. When she needs material to construct a host of pyronanos, she consumes her own skin to get it.

Firefly: It’s not the Reavers’ fault that they’re all crazy and prone to chewing on their victims; that’s just the Pax. But when you hear Zoe describe it, you realize how much you don’t want to meet one of these fellows.

The Twilight Zone “To Serve Man”: Mankind’s new alien friends sound like a real upstanding bunch. They bring humans their wisdom and technology, ending all wars and hunger, and even offer to take a few folks with them to check out the home planet. But their true intentions are revealed in their book “To Serve Man.”

Transmetropolitan: In the instant gratification world of Transmetropolitan, anyone can get anything at anytime, provide they have the cash. This even applies to human meat, which comes from brainless bodies grown in bastard farms. And, in addition to fulfilling your nutritional needs, bastard farms can grow you a vice presidential candidate for a nominal fee.

Spaceballs: Space gangster Pizza the Hutt gets locked inside his car and eats himself to death. And why wouldn’t he? Look at him: he’s a mountain of pepperoni and cheesey goodness.

Soylent Green: Yes, yes, we’re all aware: Soylent Green is people. But it’s so good. But if we don’t watch it being made, can’t we just pretend it’s soy?

Remember when The Man and The Boy sneak into what they assume is an abandoned manor only to discover a den of flesh eating humans who love the taste of human flesh? Here they are: Meet the cannibals (and or their dinner)!

Now look at these guys, they look fantastic. Just disturbed and malnourished enough to eat a baby. Or these could be the poor souls that were the main course (who can say?) All the the terribly depressing shots we saw before opened up the burned out world to us, but this is what sealed the deal for me. To be honest I was extremely nervous they wouldn't look this disturbing but Hillcoat hit the nail on the head. In the gallery you will see this cannibalistic family and their lair (down in the cellar of course).

The pictures are from the actor Jeremy Ambler. Don't his teeth look perfect for the part?

[via Quiet Earth]