film: cannibal holocaust

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Cannibal Hollocaust

hey, recently there has been a number of threads that i have viewed; current and archived, that have concerned gory/violent movies...
One movie that has popped up a bit, has been CANNIBAL HOLLOCAUST....

This movie looks fairly old.....but does look to be fucking insane.......
One person in an old thread even went as far as implying that the footage was most likely real, as the movie was alegedly shot in the deep amazon jungles with next to no budget and the deaths of the characters looked too "real"....

Now i'm not stupid and do realise such statements are bullshit, but i love conspiracy theories and thus far i have been unable to locate much information on the subject........the dude in the thread posted a website www.cannibalhollocaust.net (I dunno wether my spelling is correct).......the website alledges that the footage of the "researchers" is real and that a professor actually found the footage some years after the reporters"dissapeared" and from that the movie was made from such footage.

I do know that such a notion is laughable and that the website could merely be some fanboys lame attempt at creating hysteria or just to get himself off....lol....but I am interested in finding out a bit about the movie and can someone please tell me if this movie is as fucked up as people say....?

 

[rcebborn]

Umm well I watched a film called Cannibal Hollocaust (I'm not sure whether it was number 2 though, as I bought a cheap pirated DVD version that had a horrible cover) and it was just disgusting. Terrible acting, the gore was horrible (not so much the gore itself, but the actions that are portrayed) and it was just a rubbish film.

I have to admit the one that I saw didn't look real, or at least the deaths didn't; it was obviously just a movie.

But no, I wouldn't recommend it. It's a pathetic excuse for a film.

Peace

 

[Tech Kinetics]

Yes this movie is very fucked up!
Lots of disturbing scenes, even if someone claimed it to be real.

 

[onetwothreefour]

vote now.

 

[lostpunk5545]

I read somewhere on this great internet god that although the killing of a turtle was real everything else was faked. Apparently the people who made the film were taken to court because a scene involving a native girl on a pole looked so real everyone was convinced it was true.

They were let go when the actress testified.


I'll try find the article...Review here. Possible work warning.

Trivia

Ruggero Deodato directed "Jungle Holocaust" too. It has no relation, just more gore.


Riz Ortelani made the famous and emotional score.


"Cannibal Holocaust" is banned in a dozen countries, including Italy (for a while), Norway, Austrailia, Finland, and The United Kingdom.


The special effects in the film were so realistic that director Ruggero Deodato reportedly had to go to court and prove that it was just make-up and fake blood and guts.


There will never be a "Cannibal Holocaust 2". Director Ruggero Deodato says that it was hell to make, and far too emotional to make again.


The intense scenes of animal torture and cruelty were not fake. Because of this, four weeks after the film's release in Italy, it was confiscated and declared obscene by the High Court. Deodato protested the motion and 3 years later it was re-released to its native country.


The film claims to be authentic. Some scenes are. In the documentary "The Road To Hell", which is featured for several minutes in the film, actual stock footage is blended seemlessly with false footage. The executions are actually real, though it is not very noticeable.


There were several scandals surrounding the distribution of "Cannibal Holocaust" which helped to promote the movie. A French magazine, Photo, wrote an article "Grand Guignol Cannibale", which actually stated (wrongly) that the film was genuine, and that there were actual disembowlments, impalings, etc., throughout.


The film was initially panned on by critics but ended up grossing a fair amount considering it was a cannibal film.


This film was shot using a variety of camera types and techniques.

From here


I haven't actually seen the film. Looks interesting to say the least...

Another good review here

 

[IAmJacksUserName]

To answer the question, yes, Cannibal Holocaust is very fucked up. Although the human deaths aren't real, there's quite a few scenes where real animals are killed. I only recommend this to people with the strongest stomachs. It's both emotionally and physially hard to handle. Some of the scenes include a primative abortion in the jungle, the butchering of a (Real) turtle, rape, a girl impaled on a stick, and of course, people being eaten.

The funny thing is that underneath all of the gore, there's an intelligent movie with a message. The main characters, who manipulate the tribes by attacking and killing them, are compared by the protagonist to the cannibals, and sensationalistic news is questioned.

 

[silvia saint]

the whole "who are the real savages" bullshit is no justification for the real killing of animals purely for profit. films like this, and there are many, exist purely because there are a hell of a lot of untalented directors and sick fucks out there.

 

[goatofthenever]

They claimed the animal that were killed for the movie were eaten, and would have been killed anyways. But still, the "who are the real savages" bullshit is no justification to make a boring movie. The movie is fairly gross though, since looking for a gory movie would be the only reason someone would seek this movie out. The movie does create a good atmosphere for the type of story it tells, but it just doesn't work because i didn't care what was going on.

 

[exmancs]

Well I've just seen the uncut version of this film so I'm going to whitter on about it for a couple of paragraphs.

Let me first say I usually love Italian horror - I love Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Michele Soavi et al, I'd even say Suspiria is one of my favourite horror films of all time. And, after reading so much about Cannibal Holocaust (all good), I was expecting a much better film.

Well how disappointed was I, there really isn't anything to commend it at all... If someone is going to make a movie with a social conscience, they really need to think about such little trivialities as good acting, good scripting etc, of which Cannibal Holocaust has none - it suffers from the usual Italian horror problem of people who don't speak English very well writing English scripts, ergo piss poor dialogue and piss poor execution of it.

So, after about 5 minutes of acting so wooden it needed varnishing, I thought I'd just try and switch off and enjoy the film as a visual spectacle. But, even in this respect it's lacking. Whereas in classic Argento the style is overwhelming, with set piece murders that are almost operatic, Cannibal Holocaust is flat, there's no style to it at all. The cinema verite look they were going for fails dismally, every aspect of it's faked realism just looks like nothing but, oh yeah, faked realism.

And as for the famous gore, it's really nothing at all. I guess they didn't have much money for the effects, but things like the woman on the stake, the abortion, the cock chopping and the many slicings and dicings don't actually show much at all. For instance, in the abortion, the camera is from a distance so all you see is a red blob being pulled from between the woman's legs - just like the woman on the stake, it's horrifying only because of what it implies; they show just enough for you to know what it is. And because of the verite style, most of it is spliced with really jarring jump cuts, exposure on the film etc. I would even say that most of it isn't even as bad as you average Friday 13th.

So, that brings me round to the animal cruelty. I was actually quite lucky here, I managed to anticipate most of it and look away in time (yeah I'm a pansy all right, I even muted the TV!). However, the famous scene with the turtle didn't escape my attention (unfortunately), it went on for so long that when I peeped out from behind my hands to see if it was finished it was only halfway through, and once I'd seen a few seconds of it, it took on a car crash quality and I couldn't tear my eyes away (silly me). Suffice to say, that has got to be one of the most appalling displays of sick film making I have ever seen in my life, God I can still vividly remember it now. Oh, and I was stoned at the time so you can imagine how well that went down.

In surmation, this film is such a waste of time. All the defences of it as serious social commentary don't hold up - it's poorly written, poorly acted, poorly executed. The whole "who are the real cannibals" shite is just that, shite. How exactly can a filmmaker argue against media sensationalism when they've just taken a living creature that could have been 100 years old and gutted it on screen - the only scene in the film that is truly shocking.

And finally, a bit of trivia for you - in the turtle scene, when the woman throws up, it's genuine. The actress was so sickened by what they had done she vomited and they kept the camera running... Kind of says it all really.

 

[goatofthenever]

The cinema verite look they were going for fails dismally, every aspect of it's faked realism just looks like nothing but, oh yeah, faked realism.

I thought since it did in fact look fake it gave it a creepy dismal feel that lasted through most of the movie.

While it wasn't particularly good, i think it does merit the time it takes to watch it.

 

[exmancs]

I thought since it did in fact look fake it gave it a creepy dismal feel that lasted through most of the movie.

While it wasn't particularly good, i think it does merit the time it takes to watch it.

I have to say if a friend of mine wanted to watch it, and they could get it cheap, I'd say go for it... For me, it just isn't the film I wanted it to be.

 

[silvia saint]

i could be mistaken due to poor memory, so whoever has a copy, correct me if i'm wrong... re: bad direction.

the "real" footage is flawed as in a few scenes before the ending, the remaining documentary makers are seen together on film at the same time.

 

[lostNfound]

the whole "who are the real savages" bullshit is no justification for the real killing of animals purely for profit. films like this, and there are many, exist purely because there are a hell of a lot of untalented directors and sick fucks out there.

but the monkeys that had their skulls cut open were eaten by the local tribes people as monkey brains are considered a delicacy for them, that's not for profit. that's for dinner

i watched this yesterday, found it to be rather shocking. the hardest part to watch was the graphic mutilation of the turtle.
im glad ive seen it and have added it to my collection anyhow, already lent it out for the sheer shock factor.

 

[supertrav77]

They're making a Hollywood remake of this movie

 

[Thou]

They're making a Hollywood remake of this movie

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Not too long ago I was discussing how hollywood is so lacking in NEW tripe to produce, their regurgitating everything and anything they can get their hands on. Television, too. I own this movie. It didn't strike me as a "horror" film per se, more of just a really disturbing movie, though not particularly offensive (aside from all the animals they decided to kill for some reason). Then again I'm not really all that firmiliar with movies stamped "horror," so IDK. Media's fuckin' lame though.