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Directed By
Ruggero Deodato
Written By:
Gianfranco Clerici
Cast:
Robert Kerman, Salvatore Basile, Paolo Paoloni, Lionello Pio Di Savoia, Luigina Rocchi, Luca Barbareschi, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Ricardo Fuentes, Carl Gabriel Yorke
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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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Movie Review by Chris
November 1st, 2008
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'Cannibal Holocaust' is considered the most controersial and disturbing film ever made. Banned in countries all over the world for its graphic violent, its brutality and highly beat on by animal activists, 'Cannibal Holocaust' is a complete classic of the genre though. It was actually said that the main actors in the film, in which were killed in the end, were actually murdered. Director Ruggero Deodato, the Italian director creates a sick movie all around, but horror fans have to appreciate the effect of it all as a whole. In the beginning of this film we meet a documentary team of three young men and a young woman. They are heading for the south-American jungle to search for real cannibals. After a while the crew is reported missing and a rescue team is send from the US. This team gets in touch with an amazon tribe called the Tree-people. The tree-people gives them the only remains of the first crew - the film rolls containing the material this crew shot during their search for real cannibals. Back in the US we get to see these films. We now get to see exactly what happened to the first crew.
The film has quite an approach to the Cloverfield style of filmmaking, but it switches back and forth from the crews hand held camera to basic shots back in the US. The movie is presented in a timely fashion, where we gets flashbacks and clips of the tapes as the people in the US watch the film. Professor Harold Monroe begins studying the film in trying to find out what really happened to the crew. So he sits down for hours and watches endless tapes of stuff the crew shot while out on their exploration. Monroe sees how people act differently when their in an environment where they kill without instinct and do whatever to survive.
Animal cruelty is one of the sickest things in the movie, and only on the Uncensored American version of the film can you see these clips. Clips which include animals being murdered cold blooded. Dogs get executed and turtles get torn wide open, but the thing is that the animal deaths are real. Ruggero takes these animals and has the crew murder them on screen for reality purposes, this is one of the reasons the film is deeply hated by many, but appreciated by some. The scenes are graphic and shown in full detail. There are also other extremely graphic scenes of human death, where as a girl is shoved down a pole through her groin to her mouth, like a statue of twisted brutality and torture. We also see that the Americans are cruel in their senses too, they burn villages down with people in them. Women, children, mothers and fathers all get burned alive under the fact that they are hated by the explorers. It was said that the deaths were real but I have a hard time believing that.
The scene which puzzles me and got Ruggero in trouble was the ending of the film, where the crew is found by a native american tribe and are torn apart in graphic detail. Some claim the scene to be real, they said the actors and actresses were actually murdered, amany people said that because the scene was portrayed so realistically. What actually happened was Ruggero told the crew that after they had finished filming, to not play in any other movies. Basically told them to dissapear and see how the public reacted to this. When Ruggero was put on trial about the scene, the crew was called and all the actors and actresses appeared at the court, most of Ruggero's charges were dropped.
'Cannibal Holocaust' is sick and twisted, deprived and brutal. I was actually gagging from chosen scenes. If your a horror fan then you must see this movie, just to check out how classic it really is. Amazing.
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 | Zombie Boy
Nov 1, 2008 6:21 PM
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CH has more in common with BWP than Cloverfield. It also has a lot in common with my last BM, but that is another matter. The animal abuse is disgusting, and the small bit of gore at the end doesn't excuse the crushing boredom of 90% of the film. I paid ten bucks for a VHS dub back in the day, and I wish I had spent that money on an illicit handjob instead.
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