Cannibal Holocaust

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CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the 'found footage' of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The footage is so intense so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of Cannibal Holocaust were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.

Widely acknowledged as the uncredited inspiration for 'THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT', Cannibal Holocaust is essential to every video store's retail and rental selection. This definitive version of Deodato's masterwork ranks with the most highly anticipated and sourght after DVD releases in the history of the medium. Not for the weak of stomach, the film's horrifying power cannot be denied.

Be forwarned: This is the one that goes ALL THE WAY!

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An unforgettable exploitation film, which is why many will never want to watch it.......2007-09-05

"Cannibal Holocaust" showed up in the mail this week and as I got into the movie I found myself wondering why this was in my queue, and then I remembered. In some online discussion regarding the relative merits of the torture-porn films that are presenting themselves as the cutting edge of contemporary horror cinema, there was a consensus of sorts among those who had seen "Cannibal Holocaust" that this was the film that would get you if you had never been gotten by a horror film. By that standard, this 1980 film delivers as promised. The advertisements for this film back then lauded it as the movie that goes all the way, and most viewers will agree that is indeed the case. For some that will be the gruesome deaths of some of the native women and for others it will be what happens to the turtle. What it probably will not be is the death of the faux documentary film crew, because what you see pretty much convinces you that they get what is coming to them.

Professor Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman) is persuaded to go to the jungles of the Amazon and lead the search for a missing documentary film crew that consists of director Alan Yates (Gabriel Yorke), his girlfriend and script girl Faye Daniels (Francesca Ciardi), and their friends cameramen Jack Anders (Perry Pirkanen) and Mark Tomaso (Luca Barbareschi). Monroe travels to the rainforest and in the first half of the film is eventually able to recover the equipment and footage taken by the missing team. The second half of the film takes place back in New York City where the Pan American Broadcast Company wants Monroe to host the broadcast of the found footage. However, Monroe insists on seeing all of the footage first and is informed that Yates and his crew were award-winning documentarians who often staged their most exciting footage. In that context we see both the footage the network wants to air and that which they did not want Monroe to see. The footage proves to be shockingly graphic and reveals not only what happened to Yates and the others, but why.

Yes, I can appreciate that the people who came up with "The Blair Witch Project" probably saw this film. You do have the whole bit about a documentary film crew disappearing and finding the film that reveals what happens to them, but in the end "Blair Witch" proved to be almost a shaggy dog story, because you never really see anything, and that is most certainly not the case with "Cannibal Holocaust." What gave "Blair Witch" its power was that it was constantly giving the audience cinematic clues that something was about to happen, without getting to that moment. Essentially the audience is as taunt as can be for over an hour while watching that film. "Cannibal Holocaust" gives you amply opportunity to lose your lunch, and the film of recent vintage that I was remind of more was "Vacancy," specifically the snuff films that we see on the videos on the television (and which are a bonus feature on the DVD). Both have the same grainy, cinema veritie quality, and both produce disquiet because of their style as well as their substance.

I know that I came across this film because it was mentioned as being superior to "Hostel," "Wolf Creek," and other torture-porn films, but clearly it is more of an exploitation film than a horror film. I am also old enough to remember "Mondo Cane," which they actually showed us in high school, and clearly "Cannibal Holocaust" is in that tradition. It has been three decades since I saw "Mondo Cane" and I still remember the guy with the machete decapitating the bull, people eating insects, and the Oscar nominated song "More." However, nothing in that film compares to what happens when the "documentarians" drag a turtle from the river in the scene that could make you eject the film from your DVD player before it is even half over. This becomes the most disquieting scene in the film because it is totally real. What happens to the human beings in this film might look real, and Ruggero Deodato was actually accused of making a snuff film (he made his actors sign contracts to "disappear" for a year to maintain the illusion they were real people who were killed and not just actors), but it is all faked, albeit in an extremely effective manner.

While I am convinced "Cannibal Holocaust" is rightfully considered an exploitation film rather than a horror film, the harder question to graphic with is whether it should also be considered social commentary. The documentary film crew goes to the Amazon rainforests to show the barbarity of these cannibal tribes, but it is the Americans who are revealed to be the monsters. Is this social criticism or a convenient excuse for all the blood and gore? After all, when Monroe goes to South America he sees evidence of how brutal the natives can be when he sees a man punishing to death is wife for adultery. It is telling that what happens to Yates and the others does not bother us as much as the atrocities these supposedly civilized people inflict on the "cannibals." The conclusion of the film ultimately convinces me that the social criticism aspects are just to allow Deodato to get away with the blood and gore. This film might be in a class by itself as an exploitation film, but that is what it is in the end, and by that standard it belongs on the dubious A-list that exists for such movies.

"Cannibal Holocaust" is an unforgettable film, which might be why some of you will never want to see it, and hopefully those of you who need to be warned have been. This 2-disc DVD certainly tries to defend, if not explain, its place in the history of exploitation cinema. There is a commentary track and a different on camera commentary version of the film, so you can just listen to Deodato or you can watch him watch the film and listen to him. There is an Animal Cruelty-Free Version of the film that you can see, but while I can understand wanting to refrain from seeing the turtle scene ever again, it is, of course, impossible to judge "Cannibal Holocaust" on its own terms if you see an edited version (even if the deletions reflect the regrets of the director and others for having included them in the first place). The shooting script is also available as a DVD-Rom extra so that you can see how much "worse the film could have been." "Inside the Green Inferno" continues the conceit with title card the biographies of the filmmakers, the search team, the three cannibal tribes, and an alternative version of "Last Road to Hell," the film-within-the-film viewed by Professor Monroe before he goes off in search of the lost documentarians.

Overhyped, Cruel BORING.......2007-09-01

Even if you cut the sadistic and immoral animal kill/torture scenes from this turkey, this video would be unwatchable for several reasons. The premise is weak, actors subpar, the soundtrack sounds more 1950's than 1970's.Worse, there is very lttle suspense, it's basic filler material of a group traveling through the rain forest and the "meat" in this malnourishing stew are a few scenes of gore, some with real and live animals.
I love my prime rib rare. I don't care about how Mr.Chicken makes his way into my frying pan. However I don't appreciate cowards killing helpless creatures as a substitute for good gore FX or suspenseful filmmaking.

Makes any other horror movie look like Barney..........2007-08-28

Let me just say this. This movie goes over the limits of any horror movie i've ever seen, and then some. The realism of this film is terrifying, the aspect is disturbing, and the special effects are great. At some points in the movie, you think it's very interesting, and at other points you try to find out why on earth your watching it. This film is also very draining, which I found very unique for a horror movie. After you watch this, the images of it stick in your mind. You basically feel like your mind was raped. This film is DEFINATELY NOT for the weak at heart. I have a very strong stomach when it comes to horror movies, and this even made me squirm. From animal cruelty, to rape, to forced abortion, this film's every aspect will have a great effect on your mind. Forget what you ever thought about films. This may be the first horror movie to ACTUALLY go over the limits. Enjoy it, if you dare to watch it, and let the nightmarish thoughts kick in...

Warning on what to expect. - **Defense of The Blair Witch Project**.......2007-08-16

I've heard a lot about this movie over the years and tonight I saw it for the first time. It is not an enjoyable horror film at all and I will probably never watch it again, the graphic disturbing images and sequences stick with the person long after viewing it. Now, this could be taken as a compliment being were talking about horror film.

If your into horror and heard of this and are on the fence about seeing it let me give you a heads up of what you'll see. Brutal, humiliating, and degrading rape scenes filmed at length.
Killing of animals again filmed at length one of a large turtle who's little legs flap around as he is mutilated and killed in an exploitive way. Perry Pirkanen cried after filming the infamous turtle scene, which is kind of comforting. A cute monkey has the top of his head cut off and then the natives drink it's brains, another starts eating its face in a corner which we get a close up of. Originally, Deodato had a fake monkey head with fake brains in it to have the natives eat instead of actually killing and eating a monkey. The natives talked him out of it, however, as monkey brains were a delicacy to them. Also there were two takes needed so two monkeys were killed. That's just nameing a couple of the animals killed.
I am not a hypocrite and I do eat meat and in the same situation in the woods to survive I would kill an animal. I also realize there are a lot more disturbing things in the world like the war in Iraq and other such things, and I'm not a member of Peta. However this is a film, so real animals did not need to be killed and in such brutal ways. The turtle scene made me sick.
There is another scene where a baby fetus is basically ripped from this natives womb as she is standing, then bloody baby umbilical cord and all are tossed in a muddy hole and dirt is kicked over it.

The Internet Movie Database trivia says "Though uncaring towards the nature of his film during shooting, Ruggero Deodato now regrets everything he did, mostly the actual animal killings. He said once that he wishes now that he never made the movie." I believe my point is made if the director himself wishes he hadn't done this.

The movie is trying to say something and has a message if it wasn't and there was no message then I'd hate this film and find it pointless. It is said that Deodato was inspired to make the movie after seeing his son watching the violent news on TV, and thinking about how the journalists focus on the violence. I'd agree the news is violent and that statement rings true today as it did when the film was made and probably every decade before and since. Another film that tackled the media was Network (Two-Disc Special Edition) by the great Sidney Lumet which is on Afi's top 100 films of all time and has reached much more audiences to get it's point across, so I'd say more effective.

As for the Blair Witch Project yes in both movies filmmakers go into a wooded area that never come out and there footage was found. However they have totally different plots. Cannibal Holocaust uses horrible images to make the viewer sick whereas The Blair Witch Project leaves it up to your imagination, both are effective. However I would say what you don't see is almost always scarier, leaving it to your imagination. Although with Cannibal Holocaust I don't really see your imagination making it anymore brutal. This movie to me was more disgusting, disturbing and brutal, then scary.
Also what horror film hasn't in some way consciously or subconsciously been influenced by others. Nearly any movie you point out, you could think of something that had that in it or was influenced in some way by another film. I mean it's a compliment to call a film Hitchockian.

The movie is well made and the transfer looked really good also the sound and the score were very effective.

If someone asked me to recommend something disturbing or disgusting and something that pushes the envelope, as i did, then this would be the film. If you want to be shocked or are a huge fan of gore and like being grossed out, or a fan of slowing down when there is an accident on the other side of the highway (which i'm not) to get a glimpse of carnage this is for you. However, I'm not insinuating that everyone who likes this would enjoy seeing a car crash.

I debated on what to give this movie for a rating and tried to be biased. I didn't enjoy this film however the genre is called horror and this is a horrifying movie. However if you witnessed a surveillance camera catching a robbery where the thieves brutally kill and dismember the store clerk, that's not exactly great film making, yet it's still horror.

This is a hard film to review and doing this right after watching something like this is even harder.

Most disturbing movie I've ever seen. .......2007-08-03

I recently purchased this movie based off of the rave and disturbing reviews I heard about it. Having liked disgusting horror movies in the past I thought I'd give this one a try to test my mettle. I had heard about the animal killings and rape scenes and nudity galore, so I figuerd what the heck. This movie, by far was the most disturbing film I've witnessed. I have a very strong stomach, but even I found myself becoming sick when watching the "turtle" scene.

The rape scenes are rather outrageous and a little too long for my liking(any amount of raping in movies disturbs me, but this was asinine). The countless bashings in the head and dimemberments were nicely done and were what I was expecting all along. But nevertheless, the animal killings will get to you the most, especially if you love the little critters like I do. Rightfully so, I believe the crew that went filming this "documentary" got what they had coming to them. With their torturing of the animals and the tribes' people,I kind of enjoyed watching these sick pukes get what they deserved. What goes around comes around, I suppose.

While this movie did disturb me, I can't help thinking what possesed me to buy it in the first place. I guess I just wanted to see what a true "shockumentary" looked like, and I definitely got it with the film. This flick and the revolting scenes of torture, killings, cannibalism, and animal cruelty will fry your senses. Not for the faint of heart or queazy, this film will stay embedded in your brain for quite some time. I'm nervous to bring this home to my wife once I return from Iraq. She would probably throw up all over me if I made her view it. Maybe it's best if I just sell it to the next private or sergeant coming in. LOL.

I gave this movie 4 stars opposed to five as I found the acting very laughable and cheesy, as well as the voice-overs to be quite bad at times. But that is expected in a film such as this. The gory parts are suprisingly realistic and very well done for that time period. No CGI, so kudos on that to the filmmakers. Overall, you get what you pay for-a sick, twisted, haunting depiction of cannibalism and torture, mixed in with rape and animal cruelty scenes aplenty. If you want a film that will stick with you and make your skin crawl for weeks and weeks to come, this is your scene. Pleasantly disturbing, but one viewing is enough for me. Enjoy.

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I Iove this movie!
oddly impressive
= A Man Called Horse + The Naked Prey * Mondo Cane
beautiful, cannibal masterpeice
Jungle Holocaust AKA Cannibal Holocaust: The Beginning

Jungle Holocaust
Starring: Massimo Foschi , Me Me Lai , Ivan Rassimov , Sheik Razak Shikur , and Judy Rosly
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I Iove this movie!.......2007-05-17

This was the first cannibal movie I ever saw and I was completely blown away by it. I found it used at a local cd store and it really got me into Italian movies. Now that I watch it again after seeing a lot of these movies it still remains one of my favorites. Ruggero Deodato has a style like no other directer, his use of music, editing and camera work are amazing and his movies always seem to have that documentary feel to them, its like a mixture of "Jacopetti"&"Prosperi"and "Lucio Fulci" movies. As for the animal violence, I am against cruelty to animals but feel it was needed to make this movie what it is, absolutely horrifying.

oddly impressive.......2007-04-23

chances are, if you're looking at getting jungle holocaust you've probably already been introduced to cannibal holocaust, or make them die slowly, etc etc. jungle holocaust is actually a rather well-paced enjoyable entry in the cannibal sub-genre. imagine parts of indiana jones with cannibals. of course there is the requisite italian exploitation animal cruelty, women getting slapped left and right, and lots of gloppy blood and guts. also, for the easily offended, seeing a woman get raped and then turn around to basically become a jungle gatherer/housewife may not be your cup of tea. all in all, if you like these sort of movies, you will like jungle holocaust. if you don't, then i would save the money and buy something else.

= A Man Called Horse + The Naked Prey * Mondo Cane.......2007-03-30

Cheesy late-70s horror/action Italian import about a plane crash, two white men lost in the jungle, separation, capture, and escape. Despite the hoopla, the grand packaging (interviews, director commentary, stills gallery, etc.) and premium pricing this gory little exploitation film isn't going to win a lot of new fans to the genre. After the plane crashes and the civilized men are separated, the tall one is captured by a tribe of... cannibals! He escapes and they chase him (Why do those chase scenes remind me so much of the Tasmanian Devil chasing Bugs Bunny?) Will our hero escape and get back to the airplane before he's captured and the natives feast on his still-beating heart?

I've quit expecting Italian made movies to contain much in the way of plots. Oh, JUNGLE HOLOCAUST does take you from point A to point C - plane crash to capture to escape - but nothing terribly exciting happens along the way. What the heck, you don't watch a grinder like this for its elaborate plot or intricate characterizations, anyway. You watch it to see:
- the hero retch a gulletful of pea soup
- people impaled on sharp, pointy sticks
- the cannibals at dinner (atrocious table manner, suspicious looking main course)
- an awful lot of nudity. The hero spends half the movie in his flag-flapping birthday suit, the native girl he kidnaps (played by the provocatively named Me Me Lai) wears only a thong, most of the time
- various human internal organs, ripped and et raw
- real animals really killed on camera

In the commentary and interviews, the director and star both disclaim responsibility for the scenes in which animals are killed on camera. We're told, a number of times, the movie's producers shot and edited in these scenes for the Far East market. Be that as it may, the killing scenes are in keeping with the sensationalistic spirit of the rest of this movie. The whole point is to entertain by assaulting the senses. It's one thing for an actor to pretend to gnaw on a sheep's kidney and make believe it's a human heart. It's fakery and the audience knows it's fakery. Filming a crocodile being stunned and then skinned alive is another matter all together. You don't have to be a prude to object to the graphically violent naturalism in a movie like JUNGLE HOLOCAUST. Finding skulls teeming with maggots, or filming an actor disgorging a mouthful of prop vomit, is lowest common denominator stuff. You don't have to be an animal right's activist to strongly object to animals being killed so a schlock Italian b-horror flick can sell more tickets in Kuala Lampur. Anyone can resent a movie that panders to an audiences' prurient interests. There WAS an interesting movie in here somewhere. The movie was shot on location, the lead actor was good, the photography - considering the difficult location - was very good. But there was an awful lot I disliked here, and there's no way I'd recommend this movie to anyone.

beautiful, cannibal masterpeice.......2006-11-18

although ruggero deodatos cannibal hollocaust is probably the gratest cannibal film ever made, i must say that his earlier film, jungle hollocaust is much more enjoyable. the plot isnt anything new to the cannibal genre. plane crash, people get eaten, someone escapes. the film was actually original when it first came out. what makes jungle hollocaust more enjoyable than other cannibal films is that the main charector isnt 1 dimensional. massimo foschis performance is in my opinion one of the greatest horror film performances ever. he is truly a great actor and a strong willed man. he let a bunch of dirty natives pull on his manhood. he is tortured, beaten and humiliated. the traumutizing acts he experiences transform him into a determined, powerful man, fighting to survive. all this emotional stuff aside, the film does have some juicy exploitation to go with it. the beautiful me me lai runs around naked, allowing for plenty of boob jiggling. massimos character rapes lai when she tries to run away from him. towards the end of the film she is eaten by her own cannibal tribe. massimo ends up escaping in a plane after he kills the cannibal cheif and eats his heart. a great ending to an amazing movie. im not saying you should expect citizen kane, but this movie is a masterpeice. if you dont own it allready then buy it now!!!

Jungle Holocaust AKA Cannibal Holocaust: The Beginning.......2006-08-19

A film by Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust). A plane crashes in the jungle. One of the survivors named Robert Harper (Massimo Foschi) gets lost and while trying to find a way out of the jungle he gets captured by cannibals. He is humiliated, stripped naked, and thrown in a hole with a bird for a while. Eventually, he escapes with the help of a beautiful cannibal girl named Pulan (Me me Lai) and tries to find his plane so he can go home. This is one of my favorite cannibal movies along with Cannibal Holocaust that in my mind is the KING of all cannibal movies that lives up to its name in being the most Controversial movie ever made. Jungle Holocaust is presented for the first time in America Uncut and Unrated released by Shriek Show on DVD. The movie comes with 10 lobby cards that are Extremely detailed. I recommend this movie to any one who likes Cannibal movies, Exploitation movies, and Horror movies. This is a most have for any fan of Euro-Exploitation movie fan. DVD features for this movie are Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Commentary by From Director Ruggero Deodato, Rare Production Stills, Posters and Promotional Materials From Around the World, and Director Commentary. Also the DVD comes with trailers for Umberto Lenzi's Eaten Alive (1980) the original uncut version released by EC Entertainment (1985), a trailer for Zombie Holocaust (AKA Dr. Butcher M.D.) (1982), Burial Ground - Night of Terror (1986), and a trailer for Beyond the Darkness: Buio Omega (1984) as well as a trailer for Jungle Holocaust (1978) trailer. This movie is also called and is known as Cannibal Holocaust: The Beginning. I think one of the best things about this movie except for the blood and gore is the amazing Music and graphics of the jungle and the wild life.

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An unforgettable exploitation film, which is why many will never want to watch it
Overhyped, Cruel BORING
Makes any other horror movie look like Barney...
Warning on what to expect. - **Defense of The Blair Witch Project**
Most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

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Starring: Luca Barbareschi , Salvatore Basile , Francesca Ciardi , Lucia Costantini , and Lionello Pio Di Savoia
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The most controversial movie ever made has finally arrived on DVD! Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST presents the "found footage" of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. This footage is so intense, so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST were arrested upon its original release and the film seized.

Widely acknowledged as the uncredited inspiration for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST has been both praised and vilified for its portrait of savagery. Ruggero Deodato's nihilistic masterwork critiques the implications of Mondo-style filmmaking, even as it explores the most disturbing extremes of cruelty and exploitation. Not for the weak of stomach, the film's horrifying power cannot be denied.

Grindhouse Releasing's 25th Anniverary collector's edition DVD stands as the definitive release of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. The deluxe 2-disc set boasts a brand-new, hi-definition digital restoration of the uncensored director's cut, an exhaustive menu of bonus features and sensational packaging.

Be forewarned: This is the one that goes ALL THE WAY!

SPECIAL FEATURES -Spectacular new digital stereo re-mix and original mono mix -Provocative audio commentary by director Ruggero Deodato and star Robert Kerman -Selected on-camera commentary -THE MAKING OF CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - one hour Italian documentary featuring rare behind the scenes footage -Exclusive on-camera interviews with Deodato, Kerman, and co-star Gabriel Yorke -Theatrical trailers and still galleries -The original shooting script -Necrophagia "CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST" music video - directed by Jim Van Bebber (THE MANSON FAMILY) -Liner notes by legendary horror journalist Chas. Balun -Other surprises!!!

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An unforgettable exploitation film, which is why many will never want to watch it.......2007-09-05

Overhyped, Cruel BORING.......2007-09-01

Makes any other horror movie look like Barney..........2007-08-28

Warning on what to expect. - **Defense of The Blair Witch Project**.......2007-08-16

Most disturbing movie I've ever seen. .......2007-08-03

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