holy shit Cannibal Holocaust.

I saw this long long ago at a friends house and, well, ...yeah.
Needless to say it left an impression.

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All I remember about this movie is a lot of gore, no story, and great 70s lazer noises.

one of the worst (in the "bad movie" way) i ve ever seen during my teenage horror movies period. I found acting and action are poor, nothing surprising, and overall the movie was uninteresting and unentertaining as hell.

Btw i am not impressed at all by cannibal stuff, you may find in that the explanation of my thoughts on the movie. Run forrest, run.

Rock rape and cock cutoff.

Amazing.

They killed animals to make that movie.

neo_X7 said:

They killed animals to make that movie.

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heh

no, that's just an urban legend. During the movie, you see a turtle getting disemboweled, but in fact, the turtle had been killed before (for turtle soup), they just made it look as if it was still alive when they began to rip it apart.

Cannibal Holocaust was the first "Blair Witch-esque" movie ever created. The theme is based on the story of an anthropologist who set out to find his fellow scientiests who disappeared in the "green hell" of the Amazonas rainforest, later on he finds out that they were eaten by cannibals and eventually gets eaten himself, together with his team mates.

The movie was filmed using hand cams and other low-tech stuff, so it looks quite real.

At first, the movie was announced as "real story" for marketing purposes, but as soon as ppl started to believe in that, the makers decidet to come up with the truth - to no avail. On the contrary, an European court forced Deodato and his fellows to come up with proof that one of the actors is still alive because of a very drastic and life-like death scene... idiots.

Needless to say the movie is banned in many countries due to lots and lots of blood, gore and sexual violence, even in the director's homeland Italy where a few lawyers unearthed and expanded a weird law that prohibits cruelty to guinea pigs (no joke) and thus managed to push it on the list of forbidden films.

There still are ppl who believe this movie to be true, or at least based on real footage... needless to say it's not, and if you read interviews with Ruggero Deodato, you will see that these suspicions always amused his team to no end.

Well... in a way, Cannibal Holocaust is a minor piece of movie history, albeit a nasty one which probably shouldn't be watched by sensitive ppl or those who aren't into splatter/gore.

I had actually found this film to be far less disturbing (and far more boring) than I was originally led to believe.

Then again, I never got into films that are violent and shocking for the sake of being violent and shocking -- the early Guinea Pig films, August Underground's Mordum, Kichiku dai Enkai, Nekromantik, and all that other pointless and gory crap.

I'm all for blood and guts, but I need some sort of story or point to it all, so I don't feel like a total sadistic bastard after watching stuff like this.

Also, if you actually did enjoy 'Holocaust', you should give Cannibal Ferox a try.

It's pretty much an exact ripoff off Holocaust, but since it works along the same lines, if you enjoyed one, you'll probably enjoy the other.

it was a pretty violent movie but most of it was them tearing apart the animals.

Average Joe said:

I had actually found this film to be far less disturbing (and far more boring) than I was originally led to believe.

Then again, I never got into films that are violent and shocking for the sake of being violent and shocking -- the early Guinea Pig films, August Underground's Mordum, Kichiku dai Enkai, Nekromantik, and all that other pointless and gory crap.

I'm all for blood and guts, but I need some sort of story or point to it all, so I don't feel like a total sadistic bastard after watching stuff like this.

Also, if you actually did enjoy 'Holocaust', you should give Cannibal Ferox a try.

It's pretty much an exact ripoff off Holocaust, but since it works along the same lines, if you enjoyed one, you'll probably enjoy the other.

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Well, no, I did not really enjoy Cannibal Holocaust, I just find the movie to be some sort of weird but interesting footnote of the movies of the late 60s and early 70s, like Romero's Night of the Living Dead or the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, only on a much lower level. The blood-n-gore theme aside, I have a soft spot for horror/trash/b-movies like that.

I also don't dig all those splatter-for-splatter's-sake flics (namely the HK stuff... ugh...), they're like most porn movies, pointless, dumb and totally storyless, only with gore scenes instead of sex and even less dialogues. If anything, they're good for showing off when you're 12 and want to show your buddies how manly/cool you already are, but other than that, I guess it takes a not-so-sane mind to actually enjoy and appreciate all that slashing and cutting...

The animal slaughter is true. They don´t rip the turtle apart at first, they behead it before.

You can also watch how a muskrat has its throat slitted, a guy shooting a pig or a native sclaping a tiny momkey.

my favorite part is when the team burns down some village and then two of the people screw on the smoldering ashes while what's left of the village is looking at them screwing.

that's fucking hardcore and hardcore fucking. BA-ZING!!