cannibal holocaust

Sm0ke

wtf

seriously wtf. this is just a messed up film, the blood and guts of people didnt make me feel sick it was the scene with the turtle.... jesus ****in christ thats the most gruesome thing ive ever seen. i dont want to ask this but i have too, Is the turtle real?


anyway absolutly awful film but i was only watching for the gore! some really nasty scenes and i will never ever watch it again, heard about it for years and now ive seen it. its just another goal off the list lol!

Basq

Yes, the turtle was real!

Sm0ke

basquille wrote:

Yes, the turtle was real!

i cant get that ****in scene out of my head is nasty!!!!

Basq

Yep.. very gruesome alright!

Speaking of which, there was an excellent documentary about snuff films last week on Channel 4 .. think it was Monday night and they had a detailed segment about 'Cannibal Holocaust' and how the director was arrested due to the Scotland Yard being convinced it was a snuff film.

And unfortunately for him.. as a marketing tool, he sent the actors away into hiding for a year after the film's release so when he tried to prove he was innocent, he'd to take the actors outta hiding to prove they weren't actually killed.

TerrorFirmer

Good movie. So real its easy to understand why they initially thought it was actually a snuff film.

Has anyone seen Cannibal Holocaust 2? It's dreadful. There's also a modern-ish remake of Cannbial Holocaust but I haven't seen that one, it's hard to get.

Necronomicon

I haven't seen it but now I'm curious.....what happens the turtle?

Dudess

basquille wrote:

there was an excellent documentary about snuff films last week on Channel 4

Was that part of its "banned" season? I saw some of a documentary about Animal Farm last week (I don't think I need to mention I'm not referring to the animated movie adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire). BLOODY HELL!!! Some people are really in need of help. And the woman who was in it - what a sad, tragic case.

patch

I thought it was a pretty good movie. Surprisingly well made and acted compared to expectations.
Definitely worth a watch.

sound_wave

Necromomicon wrote:

I haven't seen it but now I'm curious.....what happens the turtle?

Yeah that scene is prob one of the more gruesome scenes in the movie. Good movie though, some great special effects which had me rewinding to make sure it wasn't actually real.

But yeah.... that turtle...

BOHS

I was actually looking for this film the other day and couldn't find it. Anybody know where you can pick this up in Dublin?

Kingp35

Yes some scenes are very shcking and the special effects looks very real but the movie itself is pretty poor. Watch it ones to see the sick scenes but its a very average movie. Without the live animals scenes the movie would be instantly forgettable.

Pugsley

Watched this last night, pretty damn sick in places, when the guy was getting his leg seen to that was pretty damn harsh looking, and the turtle, the poor turtle.

the blood and guts of people didnt make me feel sick it was the scene with the turtle

Thats because most people (myself included) are nigh on utterly desensitised (sp?) to movie gore, and you knew all the stuff on people was fake, but when you see what they do to real (previously) LIVING animals, it kind of prooves that knowing if its real makes a massive difference to just looking real. I cant help but feel for the monkey too tho, and the pigletts leg twitching was pretty rough too.

mike65

Have'nt seen it and that kind of thing is'nt really my horror bag, but some reckon the film is actually a political tract. Anyone spot a subtext?

Mike.

JohnK

Necromomicon wrote:

I haven't seen it but now I'm curious.....what happens the turtle?

So is anyone going to tell us what happens to the turtle?

ixoy

JohnK wrote:

So is anyone going to tell us what happens to the turtle?

Mr. Turtle was taken from the river and prepared for dinner. The movie shows them preparing him in full view... it's pretty gruesome..

mike65

If I tell you I'll have to eat you. (clue)

Mike.

lodgepole

BOHS wrote:

I was actually looking for this film the other day and couldn't find it. Anybody know where you can pick this up in Dublin?

Game Stop on Henry St have a copy for €9.99. I suspect it's a cut version (it's one of theose Vault of Horror releases). You can get it uncut from the US through playusa or amazon.

Xcom2

The grindhouse release(region 1) can be picked up for around €14 and is the version to go for although the out of print EC Entertainment disc has some different stills from the aparently unfilmed piranha scene.

There are also several book's about this film,one of the better one's is "Cannibal Holocaust and the savage cinema of Ruggero Deodato" by FAB Press now out of print.

If you liked this film then check out Last Cannibal World(Ultimo mondo cannibale) which was Deodato's first try at cannibal movies.

If anyone is worried the animal's killed in Cannibal Holocaust were eaten by the native people of Colombia.

Our man in Havana

www.freerecordshop.com has this dvd in its unedited glory.