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This movie is one of the most inhuman, twisted, and disturbing experiences you'll ever have watching a movie! But it's a amazingly well done social commentary, and it is going to make you question our society!
If you want to scar a room full of people throw this in at a party.The movie feels like a documentary.Sick,Gross,Twisted,and Horribly cruel to animals.Not a great film but it's a must see for the shock value alone.Watch with an empty stomach!
i didn't give this the best score only because the turtle scene kinda did me in.
other than that, great movie! I own it and the wife will not watch it again. i love it!
Posted By: Faminepulse at 8:04am, October 21, 2009
Brilliant classic with incredible special effects. I remember seeing an interview with Deodato where he said he had to explain to a judge how he did the impalement scene. The way it was achieved was genius and it looks 100% authentic. Apart from just being a gorefest this movie is actually a social commentary comparing western civilization to barbaric cannibals. This was first apparent to me in the scene where they stand by and let the woman be sexually assaulted with the giant phallus and then clubbed to death just to find out where the village is. Overall this is a very powerful film. Highly recommended, although maybe not for particularly squeamish people.
what kind of f***ed up movie is this??? i don't blame everybody for arresting Ruggero Deodato for presumably making a snuff movie! everything looks realistic, and i feel incredibly sorry for the turtle. T_T
the part where the female documentarian got beheaded looked real, mainly because it wasn't cut, and how a native had a large fruit shoved up her *opposite to penis*.
that's why i like this movie. that's right, i loved its movie for its violence, except for the animal murders.
This film is definetly not for everybody, it is very grotesque. Including rape, castration, dismemberment, and even REAL animal killings. But it was pretty good to me, watch it but brace urself.
This movie is seriously fucked up. Understand, I don't mean that as an insult to the filmmakers. Quite the opposite, really. No one makes anything this profoundly fucked up accidentally. Obviously, those involved intended to make a deeply disturbing and disgusting film, and their success is undeniable.
Seriously, this movie is nothing but disturbing! I'm a huge horror movie fan, and this is the most disturbing movie I saw! The main thing I didnt like is that we see dicks in this movie..I mean, a good horror movie doesnt have dicks!Besides that, everytime I saw an animal get killed, I felt bad because they were real!WTF were they thinking!?So yeah, this movie had great blood and gore, but its only good enough to watch once or twice.
When I think of horror, truly genuine horror, not the cheap stuff that teenage girls scream-giggle-giggle at, it’s almost always something hyper-realistic. Do not misunderstand me. I’m not contradicting H.P. Lovecraft when he stated that “horror and fantasy are only separated by a stream of black water”, but I am saying it’s a narrow-minded view. Fantasy worlds that we do not understand will always scare some of us, but there will also always be a group of people who find all unrealistic horror completely laughable. In the exact opposite sense, I’ve never once heard a person say that the premises behind truly realistic horror films were laughable. Ironically, realistic horror is scarce. Perhaps it’s because we live in a time where modern directors saw The Omen when they were 2-years-old, their underdeveloped minds mistook cheese for terror, and now they live and breathe to pump the horror genre full of crappy, unoriginal movies like The Unborn or A Tale of Two Sisters. Thus, whenever I see a truly realistic horror film, regardless of its quality, I can’t help but take it at least twice as seriously as I would yet another oh-there’s-a-cheesy-demon!-let’s-get-naked-then-do-some-ins anely-stupid-thing-and-get-killed film. In other words: Cannibal Holocaust is far from a great film in terms of quality, but the fact it’s actually realistic gives it weight, and makes it worth watching.
The first time I attempted to watch Cannibal Holocaust, I’ll admit I was bored to the point of tears. It just seemed like a toned-down, less entertaining version of The Temple of Doom. I turned it off 15 minutes in. The next day came, and I reluctantly decided to force myself to sit through the other 70 minutes of the film. This time, it caught my attention immediately. The boring faux-documentary set-up blended into an infinitely more interesting study of human nature.
While most films that “study” human nature really just end up repeating elementary facts that we knew before we were old enough to get into PG-rated movies, there is quite a bit more intelligence here. Instead of typically displaying the entire modern society (or just the American society) as evil, Cannibal Holocaust accurately depicts the mental breakdown of the young live-for-the-moment mind. In 2009, that’s something I’ve rarely seen. In 1980, I’m pretty sure it was an original concept to display on film. Also, what makes Cannibal Holocaust infinitely more realistic to Battle Royale or Lord of the Flies is that it NEVER uses extremes. While the former two works that I listed lump the entire human race together into a single idealistic gobbledygook character type, Cannibal Holocaust does the opposite and presents good, bad, AND everything in between through diverse, realistic character traits. This is why Cannibal Holocaust is so intelligent in presenting the whole cliché “human nature is to kill” concept.
As for the quality . . . Well, people have accurately said that the acting (from the older people) isn’t great. The four (young) central characters all act realistically, and are portrayed realistically. However, I didn’t find the acting bad enough to be distracting at any point in the film. Some of the gore effects are outdated, but, again, I didn’t feel it took away from the story unless you allow it to.
The gore is minimal at best. Some would go as far as to say it isn’t there at all. There are a few generic, non-graphic Hollywood rape scenes, a few infamous animal killings, and a few human lacerations, but that’s about it. It’s nothing you haven’t seen hundreds of times before. A lot like A Clockwork Orange and Natural Born Killers, I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how this film was labeled as insanely violent, much less violent/gory at all. The small amount of gore that was there was simply generic, and done in a non-graphic way. I’m someone who is very sensitive to graphic gore, and I found everything in this movie below the level of violence in the average R-rated movie. Compared to any given Saw film, Cannibal Holocaust just looks bloodless. I am not complaining about this, however. Just stating the fact. The movie did not need more gore for any reason, and I blame the lack of it only on the silly infamous hype.
Overall, I found Cannibal Holocaust a very entertaining and thought-provoking experience. I watched it with low expectations and had an absolute blast. One of the most fun movies I’ve ever watched alone. Regardless of my tastes, however, it is impossible to deny the territory and importance of this film on the horror genre. It forces you out of your face fantasy world and rubs your face in the filth of the real world . . . even if that filth isn’t really that disturbing.
Well it got tooo much hype and I found it boring. Yes there were a tortoise killed everyone seemed so sad about and the film crew got what they deserve in the end....but it was not that shocking maybe I am a little jaded but I seen more gory movies then this so I found it boring totally at lease I watched what it was a about. I think the title fit the movie and I wouldn't watch it again so try not to buy the hype.
Posted By: Regoregitate at 10:28pm, February 20, 2009
I enjoy this movie alot. But I do enjoy Cannibal Ferox more.
Posted By: Logan[KMFDM] at 4:38am, February 18, 2009
it was pretty damn intense, dont really think it would have sparked an interest if it werent for the animal deaths just for the fact that they had the balls to do that...... impalment scene owned
Easily the best cannibal flick out there. It's pretty brutal, but I won't score it too high because the animals killed in it were real and that's just a shame.
Posted By: Slaser Maniac at 7:54pm, January 14, 2009
One of the Best Cannibal Movies I have ever seen.
The film shows some extreme stuff such as an abortion by hand and a scene of castration. Overall it is a good horror flick.
Teh most overhyped film next to Audition. It is just a compilation of pointless garbage. I loathed this film, and no because of the gore. You call that gore? Slicing up a giant turtle isn't gore, its a director trying to do something unique because his film sucks shit.
Posted By: gorehound62 at 5:02pm, November 14, 2008
i went in to this knowing what to expect. i was forewarned that it is an absolutely brutal, hard to watch, mean spireted, but great film. and thats exactly what it was. interesting that the director was arrested when first realeased. another funny point. the direcors of the blair witch project have claimed to have never seen this film. watch this , then watch that, and see what you think. great film, but be prepared, it is one of the most shocking and disturbing films ever
i give this a high rating strictly on how much it made me cringe. I cannot believe the things i witnessed in this movie. Everything looked to real,freakin creepy as hell
Posted By: thedescent08 at 5:25pm, September 22, 2008
One of the best movies ever!!!
Posted By: coldblood at 4:51pm, September 22, 2008
Cannibal Holocaust is one of those movies like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Exorcist where you can have the words; "the one and only" in front of the title. It was the first psuedo-documentary horror movie, it is startling to watch and still to this day the majority of the population couldn't make it through it. The only real downside is that they went too far with those actual animal killings. Most of us horror fans are surprising not violent people and don't enjoy seeing any real suffering or killing. I'm not saying that the rest of it isn't completely messed up because it is. But the rest of the movie is done with (some very impressive) special effects. One thing that can't be denied is that it is one powerful piece of filmmaking. So it does deserve it's props. Only long-time hardened horror fans should watch it. Seeing Hostel 1 and 2 won't come close to preparing you for this film.
Posted By: bigmo_402 at 2:05pm, September 22, 2008
This movie was about as wild as you can get. People say it is real footage and some say it's not. Decide for yourself, worth watching to figure out.
Although it is considered a classic that you must see, I don't think this is worth watching at all. The story is acceptable and the actors do their job pretty well. The gory scenes aren't that bad at all (though I hated the scene where they cut off the dick of Alan), but I do NOT agree with the killing of those animals. I watch splatter movies to enjoy unreal gore and to think about how the producers have done it. I am not very into snuff films you know, although we're "just" talking about animals.
What surprised me more than the almost overly disturbing and graphic nature of this film, was how excellent a film it was. Despite what many people may have you believe about it, it is not just pointless and disturbing exploitation which serves no purpose other than to shock and humiliate, it's a film with a point to make, and a film made with a genuine knowledge of the art of filmmaking and it really is, despite some truly inexcusable animal cruelty scenes, one of the finest horror films ever put onto film.
I saw this movie when I was younger, around the age of 7 or so, and recently decided to watch it again, to see if maybe it's now more understandable because I've matured since then, but, sadly... it's really not as great a it's said to be. However, I do appreciate it for what it is, being the classic grind-houe fan that I am. I was never, and still am not, too happy with the scenes depicting REAL animal cruelty. I think the characters should have been more developed before actually shooting the movie.
It's not the best, but should be viewed by most classic horror fan.
I REALLY do have respect for horror history, and filmakers who "break ground." I am very intersted in the history of censorship especially when it pertains to film. I am also just plain into old school grungy horror...but all that said, this film was not what it's cracked up to be.
Some of my fav. current filmakers cite Deodato as influencial and this movie in particular as being, among other things, freakin awesome...but to be honest I was pretty bored throughout the first half, then as the film progressed itt became very unbelievable and kinda stupid. I was insulted a bit...not by the violence and gore, but by anyone thinking that I could buy into characters that are so stupidly malicious.
I DO like the IDEA of a unorthadox filmcrew, who brutaly stage violence for a documentary...and then getting what they deserve. Good Idea. But the way Deodato does it is very unvbelievable and kind of elementary. I think if more time was spent developing the film crew characters..and less w/ the studio in America and the proffessor, i think we'd have a better (paced/scripted) movie.
