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Post by Nobody on Jun 29, 2006 23:04:47 GMT -5
Directed by: Ruggero Deodato Made in: 1980
Synopsis: A New York anthropologist, named Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman), travels to the wild, inhospitable jungles of South America with two local guides to find out what happened to a documentary film crew which disappeared nearly a year earlier while traveling into the same jungle, called the 'Green Inferno' to film a documentary about reputed cannibal tribes. After a long search and encountering a few primitive tribes, Professor Moore finds the remains of the crew and several reels of their undeveloped film. Upon returning to the USA, Professor Moore views the film in detail featuring the travels of the director Alan Yates (Gabriel York), his assistant Faye Daniels (Francesa Ciardi), and cameramen Jack Anders (Perry Pirkanen) and Mark Tomaso (Luca Giorgio Barbareschi) venturing into the jungles where the inexperienced, street-wise film group, after finding the indigenous tribes to docile for their film, decide to push them for kicks, with drastic consequences. Originally released in 1980, Cannibal Holocaust was banned in about 60 countries around the world inluding its native Italy. The special effects were so well done that the director Ruggero Deodato was even summoned to court to prove that no human being was actually killed in the film. Today the film has a strong cult following and is still one of the most notorious movies to date. Several imitations have been made to cash in on the success of Cannibal Holocaust (the most notable being Cannibal Ferox), but none have succeeded, because not only does the film have plenty of gore and disturbing images to throw at your face it also has a well written plot.
If you are getting tired of the old mainstream horror crap that has been coming out lately or you just think you need to see somthing more schocking, then Cannibal Holocaust is definitely a film you will want to pick up right away. The film had actually been unavailable for a long period of time in the U.S. except for its Laser Disc release in the 90's. It was available in the U.K. heavily edited under the release company Vipco, but you could however order the uncut EC version. Anyways you don't have to worry about that anymore, because Grindhouse has finally released a fully restored 2 disc limited (11,111 copies) edition set. There is also a regular 2 disc set out by Grindhouse that is the same, only it is not limited edition. Well once you get your hands on it you will have plenty of surprises waiting inside. You will get to see the iconic image of a woman impaled on a stake, babies being buried in the mud, and people being eaten. Those are only a few things of what you will see in Cannibal Holocaust. The movie is a very disturbing one at that, and if you are use to watching Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Final Destination ect., then get ready to have a shotgun blast to your senses, because this is the ultimate horror/exploitation film. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST!10 out of 10Review by Lust del Carrion
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Post by leigh on Jul 20, 2006 16:16:26 GMT -5
That is a very good review Lust Del Carrion.
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Post by Nobody on Jul 20, 2006 17:37:03 GMT -5
Thanx.
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Post by HNT on Jul 20, 2006 17:46:46 GMT -5
Not bad, bro. This is a sweet movie
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Post by Nobody on Jul 20, 2006 17:51:50 GMT -5
I know.
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 13:47:47 GMT -5
I just finished watching this, and in all honesty, I wasn't that affected by it. After having seen the complete cut of the film for the first time, and it never really haunted me that much. Too much time in the jungle and not enough on the cannibals. The gore wasn't that shocking, as most of the time someone was in the way of the camera and obscured it, especially at the end. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was, even though the turtle scene was the hardest one to sit through. Beyond that, though, I didn't find much to get so offended about. I honestly didn't have a problem with it. Not enough gore in the film for me either.
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Post by HNT on Aug 1, 2006 13:54:15 GMT -5
I am amazed, GL. To be fair, no film could ever live up to the hype surrounding this film, but I certainly thought it was plenty gory and disturbing.
I think the disturbing elementws of this film come as much from the tone as fromthe actual on screen gore. This is a really mean film. THe characters are all completely immoral and evil in their behaviors. It has rapes galore, exploitation, racism, and genuine animal death. It is a film about characters with no morals. THat in itself makes it hard sto stomach
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 14:53:18 GMT -5
Because there's no rating on it, I forgot to give it a rating. It was a 4 out of 5. I've seen far better and far worse, but based on it's Italian heritage and what happened, it got bumped up.
I agree, it is very brutal in what happens and what the humans and cannibals do, and for the time it came out, this was a severe slap in the face. Remember, it came out the same year as Halloween. The thing, though, that bugged me about the film was that it was psyched up as being this over-the-top gorefest and all that ended up was a couple scenes of disembowelment. I was surprised at how bloodless it actually is. That's what I feel: it was psyched up as something else and it never lived up to it, but it was still a great film all the same.
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Post by HNT on Aug 1, 2006 15:03:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I hear what you're saying. I've heard other people say that too. Like I said, for me it was less what they showd in terms of gore than what they showed in terms of human interaction. In most films you get heros and villians, people and monsters, killers and victims. In thius film you just get people hurting each other relentlessly. I found the vry moral ambiguity of it all to be what made it rough.
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 17:13:15 GMT -5
Absolutely. The brutality from the humans is far worse than what the cannibals do, and the hostility from them is what drives the film, not the cannibals.
It's what the reputation never covers that majkes it shocking, not what's talked about, what really wasn't as bad as it could've been.
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Post by Canetoad on Aug 1, 2006 18:41:38 GMT -5
Ditto - it is the amorality of the whole exercise that is the most disturbing. The real predators are the film crew.
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 20:46:11 GMT -5
Right, as we've said all along, Toad.
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Post by Nobody on Aug 8, 2006 14:03:53 GMT -5
Indeed. This film is a masterpiece in its own right.
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Post by GL on Aug 9, 2006 11:09:34 GMT -5
I don't know, I'd call it more of a disappointment more than a masterpiece. Sure, it was graphic and violent, but I've seen far graphic, and the moments of violence are incredibly spread-out in the film. There's long moments during the watching of Yate's footage where they just walk around the jungle. It was hard to stay awake during that part. Plus, all the scenes that were hyped up before hand as being so vicious and cruel about the film really weren't that hard to sit through. It wasn't as graphic as it has been made out to be.
However, it is still a good film, I just wouldn't call it a great one.
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Post by Nobody on Aug 9, 2006 12:00:05 GMT -5
I call it a masterpiece in it's own right, not because of the graphic violence in the film, but because of the atmosphere and mean spirit the film develops so well. I have seen very few films that have managed to do that.
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