Cannibal Holocaust - US Release 2012

[Seymour]

Originally Posted by victim

Never seen this one either. What kind animals are killed?

You can check IMDb or Wikipedia for the full list, but I think the scene where they kill a giant turtle (tortoise?) is supposed to be the most graphic and disturbing. If it's any consolation, Ruggero Deodato (the director of CH) later said he regretted the animal killings.

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by SadatX

A. You have no interest in the product. Thus, you have no purpose in this thread other than grand standing.

Interest in a topic does not mean approval of this film. Positive and negative comments are both valid.

Skip the comment, or discuss the merits of your own comments.

[Mr. Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Seymour

You can check IMDb or Wikipedia for the full list, but I think the scene where they kill a giant turtle (tortoise?) is supposed to be the most graphic and disturbing. If it's any consolation, Ruggero Deodato (the director of CH) later said he regretted the animal killings.

The killing of the tortoise os definitely the most graphic, but it's hardly torture, as some makes it out to be. It's a quick and efficient beheading, so the animal probably suffered less than your average cow.

The killing of the rodent is, on the other hand, unnecessary cruel and long. But that's really the only part of the film that I find problematic.

The animals were all killed in ways that were usual for the cast of natives and they were used for food by the cast and the crew after shooting. Furthermore, they have been dead for 30 years now, so the point that watching this today somehow means that you condone violence against animals is totally far-fetched. Times have changed, and you wouldn't see someone making a film like this now.

As for the scenes themselves, I think they are an absolute integral part of what the film tries to say about violence, exploitation and audience expectations. Removing them takes away a great deal of the power of the film.

[Gardenofstone10]

A lot of people talk about how disgusting and anti animal the movie is. It's not that graphic and honestly, what else would you do in that situation? Kill to survive. Eat to survive!!

[CoopFilm]

Second time this week I've agreed completely with SadatX on every point of a post.

[Bad Sandwich]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

Second time this week I've agreed completely with SadatX on every point of a post.

First time for me, heh. I don't feel Halloween II constitutes an "unacceptable" release, but I agree with all of his/her remarks here.

[Michael Bay Fan]

I've heard about this so much from the horror community and never seen it. I've seen Eli Roth both mention and wear shirts of this.

[Nielsb90]

I just watched this for the first time.. Great effects, I must say!

Most disturbing movie ever? Not to me..

[m_burlock]

Powers that be, please make an appropriate entry in the blu-ray.com database for this release.

[Morsoth]

I need that movie! I have very good memory of this film from the time I watched it with my friends many years ago.

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by m_burlock

Powers that be, please make an appropriate entry in the blu-ray.com database for this release.

Cannibal Holocaust Blu-ray

[flyfree432]

With Halloween coming up I just found out about this movie and watched it. I'm not sure how this movie is 'horror', as it really didn't seem all that scary. It disgusted me, but didn't frighten me. Definitely not suspenseful. It is filled with scenes of torture, rape, killing, and of course, cannibalism. Other movies are far more bloody, emotionally disturb us more with rape (I spit on your grave), have more gory scenes and higher 'kill counts'. I still found movies like Salo and Caligula more disturbing. I didn't find the film especially brilliant, they just seem to show more on screen that might be implied and not shown in other Amazonian movies. I would be very interested in hearing the director and actor commentaries when it comes out though.

[brid]

any news on this one yet? not sure wether to just go for the shameless release

[zafisher94]

damn, I saw the bump and I got excited

[Morsoth]

Originally Posted by zafisher94

damn, I saw the bump and I got excited

Me too!

This is probably one of the first (if not the first) horror hand-held camera/Found Footage genre! Everybody seems to talk about The Blair Witch Project as the first of its genre, but I know damn well Cannibal Holocaust is all the same (and better as you actually see the horror) and the *first* of them all!

Can't wait to buy that lil' dirty movie in my collection!

[brid]

Originally Posted by Morsoth

This is probably one of the first (if not the first) horror hand-held camera/Found Footage genre! Everybody seems to talk about The Blair Witch Project as the first of its genre, but I know damn well Cannibal Holocaust is all the same (and better as you actually see the horror) and the *first* of them all!

Good point, I need this title cos of that and the fact it's one of the most famous Video Nasties, I think it must be one of the first.
Going to get the shameless one just in case this doesn't see the light of day I think, then sell it later if the US one comes out and it's the whole shebang - Although it doesn't bother me that much that just 14 secs of that rat is cut, poor thing was really squirming!

Need this and Man Bites Dog to come out, Dans une galaxie pres de chez vous is available from France [region B], but the thing hasn't got English subs.

[blurayisnice]

I've never seen this movie, but just read about it on another forum (topic about 'sick' movies). Is this movie worth watching? Or is it too sick/wrong?

[Cry_Wolf_743]

I have the limited numbered 2 disc set Grindhouse put out several years ago and glad to own it. This is the granddaddy of the Found Footage sub-genre. As for the animal killings, they don't bother me. I simply can't get worked up over seeing animals getting killed and later being used as food. As humans, animals are beneath us plain and simple.

[Owozifa]

This film has gotten played up over the years for many of the wrong reasons, I think. I finally watched it just last year and was prepared for the worst, but as some have said the 'animal cruelty' is not as large an issue as is often thought. If the film were an actual documentary you would not hear about any of this, but it chooses to ride the fine line and so, like many films of its type, draws criticism.

The rodent death was, I believe, the idea of the local person who acted in the role. That is the one place the argument holds any water at all, but when you consider the film as a partially improvised faux-documentary it's easy to see how that might suddenly spring up and they'd get the shot. The boar was shot, then eaten. Simple enough. The turtle was the most graphic, but it was already dead. The method it was killed is the way many turtles are killed in the United States every day. I like turtles, personally, but why should my personal like for an animal dictate the ethics?

Then you have to consider that the entire point of the film is this place out here in the jungle is much closer to the realities of life than we are.

[Trekkie313]

I find the "human cruelty" much more alarming, I mean the cast was stuck in the middle of a dangerous jungle with a hostile director who verbally and emotionally abused them.