Cannibal Holocaust

[GOLLUM]

Thanks for the info on this film but after having read the comments this is not a film I feel any great urge to rush out and see somehow...

[Disnatured]

I must say I am a fan of such disturbing underground movies. Doesn't mean I advocate the animal violence but i just like watching things most people find disturbing.
Slightly off topic but has anyone by chance seen Jungle Holocaust it was made before Cannibal Holocaust but was by Reggero aswell. It has an interview with Ruggero on the copy I have and during it the point of animal snuff is brought up and he says he never shot those in Jungle Holocaust because he didn't agree with it. They were shot by the producer instead, yet I've never heard him flinch on the animals killed in Cannibal Holocaust I find it a tad strange. However that said, a great movie in all and it does have a level of social commentary to it.

[Leto]

Originally Posted by Disnatured

However that said, a great movie in all and it does have a level of social commentary to it.

Where ???

Killing animals putted apart, it's a basic gore movie on cannibalism, and most of a technical tricks praised by Polymorphikos above were commonly used long time before in European movies, especially Italian ones.

For me, the only reason why this movie is famous is because of its "disturbing factor" due to a good viral marketing (even if the term wasn't coined yet in 1980) around real killings.

You want a disturbing movie with a message, and brilliantly directed, get Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom.

[Disnatured]

The social commentary was in "who is the primitive?" for all of their advanced technology and ideas, comapred to a bunch of stone age people living in the jungle, who was the real primitive. Im not saying the movie was a social commentary I am saying that it did have elements of it, it posed questions. Alot of people overlook that because of the other stuff about the movie like the animal snuff and the court trials and things.

[Leto]

Originally Posted by Disnatured

The social commentary was in "who is the primitive?" for all of their advanced technology and ideas, comapred to a bunch of stone age people living in the jungle, who was the real primitive. Im not saying the movie was a social commentary I am saying that it did have elements of it, it posed questions. Alot of people overlook that because of the other stuff about the movie like the animal snuff and the court trials and things.

Definitly watch the Pier Paolo Pasolini movie, if the movie is not banned in Australia. There's a real social commentary in it.
Ruggero Deodato obviously saw it (along with other films which "inspired" him), and tried his own version, but obviously without even a quarter of Pasolini talent (who IMO was an artistic tortured genius).