Exploring Cinema's Most Controversial Horror Movie
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Imagine having conceived and completed a horror film that was SO CONVINCING that you were charged WITH MURDER... that’s gotta be every director’s dream
Elisabeth Bloom that’s kind of a win in my book
That's exactly how I see it lmao he was successful
Guinea Pig. look it up
I’d say that probably isn’t the directors dream.
Moths it is it is it is it is it what it is
I may have been more easily lulled into a false sense of secutity at the beginning, had the film been called something other than "Cannibal Holocaust."
That's what i always thought
Yeah that title is pulled straight from death metal band names.
Felix cannibal corpse
I just love it when horror flicks choose such subtle titles. That's most of them. They spoil the grand finale right in the header.
That's where Asian horror cinema does really well, I think. I don't have a freaking clue what I'm in for when I read a title like Train To Busan, the Grudge or Audition. But probably my favorite horror title ever is simply "The Thing."
@@hermionestranger4964 That's a great point, I haven't seen the Thing but have heard of it and always thought it sounded crass but it's actually hilarious - 'lets call our film 'The (insert monster name here)'' :')
My dad took my mom on their first date to watch this movie back when they were in El Salvador....she hated horror movies...but hey, they're still married today so...good on him lol
do all 3 of yous watch this during christmas or something
Lady Alteria good for you
Bro that's love right there. A person who hates horror yet is willing to see the pinnacle of horror for her man. Dam near brings a tear to my eye lol
Gotta work that trauma bonding
Ridley Jones that’s actually more true than we think - psychologically speaking, horror/thriller movies are the best movies to watch on dates lol
“This film is banned within over 40 countries.”
RUclips: B U Y O R R E N T
@Page Not Found I live in the USA and this film was banned here, but I still shows buy or rent because of the ban lift
It's free on Facebook
@@stroervor no it’s not?
@George Gershwin the one on RUclips but if ur on the us u can still see the uncensored one the one with them killing the turtle(I believe)
@@paddedpineappleanimations265 it's not banned in the US
For a film from the early 1980s, it looks surprisingly modern, as if it's a modern film trying to mimic films from that period rather than an actual film from that period.
KamenSentaiMetalHero 2000 right
That’s probably because of it’s found footage style I think, if I’m correct this was the movie that created that genre of film as it was the first of its kind
Interesting fact, Sergio Leone praised the film.
I think it's because at least half the movies of today are trying to mimic movies from that period.
@Boom Diggaty How many shitty film you waste time to comment? Maybe this is not "that kind" of shit movie you mean.
yeah i always assumed that this movie was the reason that films started stating "NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM". You kind of really didnt even discuss it. you just mentioned it.
The film that really started that was a movie about a kitten going on Adventures. About a dozen kittens were killed during production.
ahniandfriends123 What movies is it, that sounds awful.
@@ahniandfriends123 You talkin about Milo and Otis?
@@JadeHernandezzzz yes, that was the movie
ahniandfriends123 yeah Oliver and Company
Kinda cracks me up how the director was banged up because the Italian authorities thought he killed real people
Realize it's a movie
The CineRanter kind of ironic
Wubble John well it's not just a movie since they actually killed and tortured animals
well italy was a very strict christian democracy at the time so both authorities and laws were kind of bigots
gabriele399 what do you mean?
Watched this movie with my mom. In the end she said "my soul feels weird" and went outside to have a stress smoke. Needless to say, I think the movie really made an impression!
That is such a great expression😂
I'm copying your mom's "my soul feels weird".
yeah I kind of understand what she meant.
That's because folks are not supposed to watch such films
Oh my, I hope her soul will recover.... 🤤
Satire always runs the risk of becoming exactly what it is commenting on.
This is something more people should know.
@@barfyman-wn3id wait what is it then?
This was a satire film?
Cameron Drew I think it’s more commentary
@@weirdo3116 satire is typically social commentary with a humorous twist. This is not that. It's sensationalist commentary if I had to try and classify it.
First off, before I even watch this.. I find it disturbing how many drinks and liquid you have near your electronics. Now back to the video.
Mïľķ
You got me man, my soda is way to close to the screen
Boom Diggaty broooo thanks for commenting. Your notification let me see that I have almost 1.5k likes hahaha appreciate you dawg
Ayo ever heard of the critical drinker
Being that much of a pussy is disturbing.
Cannibal Holocaust: I am the most outrageous and controversial movie to ever exist!
Serbian film: Hold my beer
Salo: "Hold my fece... err, chocolate..."
Wait what film is that?
Risk Serbian film? Oh, a very fucked up, poorly acted movie where the last 30 minutes is just purely inhuman actions. You could google it, but I don't recommend it.
Serbian film was fucking trash
Serbian film is very weak ehehehehe,...
Honestly, having a movie about exploitation that was made using exploitation reminds me a lot of "Cuties"
@Vean Studio
well... and what about the director of cuties???
Except Cuties is infinite times worse
Cuties whas made by Ped. O'phyle
@@nitwmaedae6662 Yeah, at least Cannibal Holocaust did somewhat try to get its message across despite its production being hypocritical, and even jumpstarted the Found Footage Horror sub-genre. Cuties... Um....
ruclips.net/video/Wc1L3k1nMP8/видео.html
Eeyeah, RUclipsr MisAnthro Pony summed it up a million times better than I could ever hope to. At least with Cannibal Holocaust, no-one was getting horrifyingly exploited _on screen_ for all to see. And the cast were Adults.
There’s literally child beauty pageants all over America every week why are we pretending cuties is anything
snuck out one night in highschool to get high and watch this with a friend. I had to walk home at 3:00 am and it turned out to be the most terrifying night of my life so far
Perei Waters I watched this last week with a few friends we were all baked and the movie ended with one of us crying and me puking
You guys are pussies
Austin Lodell someone needs self reassurance
Aw you smoked week your so cool
predawn24 dude u have an Xbox profile photo for your pic stfu
Its weird because I think the story itself is fantastic and it has very valid points... but the way it translates on-screen (from the way it was made, the hypocritical aspect of the production, and all the unnecessary sensationalistic stuff) is repulsive. Someone said this could have been better as a book and I agree
I think it had to be this way. The film for as awful as it is, is fascinating as a look into the self obsessed, self loathing delusions of the director and the incredible lack of sanity it must have taken to make something like this.
@Nick Waddle its extremely badass that u go to every comment and tell everyone how much of a pussy they are and how cool and tough you are
Nick Waddle Calm down. I like the movie and all but calling everyone else who doesn’t like it a pussy isn’t the right move. Everyone has different taste.
My issue with calling It problematic due to issues with the production Is that it's like.judging a book due to who the writer is, or whatever other piece of art.
Do I hate Burzum's music because Varg is a murder nazi cunt? No, I don't. I LOVE many of his albums, yet I hate the man.
The same goes for the Cannibal Holocaust.
I don't like exploitation films.in general, but given the historical context (which is close to me as an Italian citizen) I understand the artistic idea behind It.
@Nick Waddle African Addio is about real people in real historical event. It's not insanity, just a documentaty about what it was. It wasn't film directors ot script writers who came up with those atrocity. African rebels and Congo mercenaries did. Unlike in this film where it's pure fiction.
The problem with these "extreme" movies is once you look beyond the graphic images and the controversy, more often than not, all you're left with is a poorly made and poorly acted film.
except this wasnt porrly made.
Actually if you look past the gore and shock value and controversy of this film you'll find it isn't poorly made or badly acted at all and in fact has a pretty thought provoking story. Most people are just too distracted by those things to notice the story.
@david who called it a masterpiece though? My whole point was that there is more to this movie than just gore and controversy. I liked Neon Demon too but I wouldn't call that a masterpiece either. Calling anything a masterpiece feels a bit pretentious to me. No shade just my personal feelings on the matter.
Watch serbian film. If that shit dont phase you, then idk man
baby thumb A Serbian film wasn’t bad
I watched cannibal holocaust without knowing the animals were actually murdered and tortured and the film didn't bother me, just an ok horror film, when I did my research afterwards I was horrified.
Why?
@@microwaveno7368 because they were actually harmed and tortured
what did you watch it on
@@microwaveno7368 can you read?
@@swimporpoise5395 what did you say?
did you notice whenever the screen would cut back to him the ":O" face zooms in a bit ever time
With every Ryan video I watch, the idea of that coffee-cup getting knocked over and fucking up his entire set-up gets ever more probable.
I did actually spill my coffee onscreen in an older video but can't remember which one!
Actually unstimulated animal killings and animal cruelty was quite common in films well into the 1980s. Many films showed depicted horses with riders being shot. This didn't actually shoot the horse for real, but it was nearly as bad. Instead they would string a thin cable in the horse's path to cause it to trip. Broken legs were quite common and considered an acceptable risk, even though a broken leg is a fatal injury for a horse.
The film Walkabout (which is quite good) depicts several unstimulated animal deaths where they show the Aborigine boy (none of the characters in the film were named) is hunting.
Animal cruelty laws in film making weren't really a thing in the late 70's.
Even Disney deliberately pushed a large number of lemmings over a cliff when they would not perform this "natural" behavior on there own while making a documentary on these animals.
In fact, lemmings never do this naturally. It's a myth.
When I saw the turtle get decapitated, I thought “damn, that looked real.” I was pretty saddened to learn that it was real. I don’t care how many people enjoyed this movie (I’m not sure how you could). It wasn’t worth mutilating animals on screen.
And you eat bacon
@@lol-cy9wr The movie brings out the hypocrisy in all of us.
@@lol-cy9wr that bacon is also born to be killed and has never had any freedom in its life.
@@swimporpoise5395 You can say the same thing for the turtle. It was born to be killed. Being bred for the purpose of consumption does not make it moral.
@@cabralesmj5 but the difference is those animals are killed for food and other resources. as much as i really don’t like it there’s at least reasoning. they could easily have had a fake turtle or just not done it. it was unnecessary because it had no value to hurt it except to be cruel.
Never watched the film, but based off what he said in this video, I think the unethical aspect adds a brutal irony to the film. Like you want to walk away from this movie thinking "I'm better than those people", but you also watched this film because of the controversy and sensationalism. Like you are the very reason why films like this get made and will continue to get made. The reason why it leaves a bitter feeling in your mouth is that in a way, the film is pointing out your own hypocrisy by choosing to view it
deep
Watch the end. Does that brutal irony justify the actual actions taken by Deodato?
formorri great comment
You are very judgy for someone who haven’t even watched the film, don’t you. Shove your preconception aside, watch the movie, it’s awesome. Then come to your own conclusion. It’s actually quite smarter than you think. Why are US people so obsessed with empty concepts like “hipocrisy” and so eager to jump to conclusions without even beginning to see the facts, let alone contemplating different points of view?
Why have you just wrote a paragraph about a film you've never seen
Sounds like a great message, don't know why he had to kill a bunch of animals though
@Khaled Rapp Could you elaborate?
they would eat the animals (they did it afer the scenes) so why not using them for the movie
@@CrankyB1tsch I'm pretty sure torturing an animal is still bad even if you eat it after.
@@CrankyB1tsch They didn't just kill the animals, they basically tortured them. Plus, you've yet to cite a single source for your claim. It's pretty clear you're just making shit up, considering you also obviously haven't seen the actual movie.
The actor who killed the turtle apparently cried after the deed. The whole scene lasted six minutes, I think.
The scenes of the turtle trying to bring in his feet in before being hacked off is something I’ll never ever forget. Truly gut wrenching. Very few movies can leave a everlasting image like that.
Tbh I'm glad they tried to go for the head and make it as quick as possible, that poor thing didn't deserve any of it or hell any of the animals in the movie for that matter. In fact one of the actors in that scene immediately cried after the shoot was done, no civilized person should be able to come out of that without having a few scars inside
@@rhetiq9989i mean, i know theyre actors but you gotta eat
@@rhetiq9989 Never been to a butcher shop?
"some lunatics in Germany" that's how s*it always starts innit
Funny thing is that it never came out in germany because of the brutal content
@@abscheulichkeit9706 probably a good thing.Only people who want to understand how evil it is should be able to look at it
@@iammrbadguy9706 I couldn't disagree more. Artistic freedom is so very important... the right to see disgusting things should be protected. It is that very same sensitivity to disgust that caused Germany to commit the holocaust. Obviously it's not cool to compare the holocaust with film bans, but at the end of the day they are both symptoms of the same problem: an unhealthy desire for things to be clean and orderly.
Funny enough, the maker of Faces of Death started making those films because of Japanese investors.
@@trequor Wait wot? So one Austrian man's hatred for the Jews which caused him to murder millions of innocent people all around Europe was because of Germany's policy of keeping things clean and orderly. I don't know how you made that connection. But I can somewhat understand
But dude you also have to understand that Germany at that time was really in guilt and self reflection. They admitted to their crimes (unlike the Japanese) and was trying to keep a clean image of themselves. Imagine if Nazi propaganda films/games/books or films with great gore/violence was allowed. Wouldn't the rest of the world criticize them for allowing such things? You should also think about it from Germany's perspective too. At least now the censorship laws are relaxed in Germany. Games like Wolfenstien which was banned are now unbanned. Just give them time to heal and bury their past mistakes instead of jumping on the criticizes wagon. The holocaust hasn't even been a century old and it is a matter of great taboo to them
Really though, if you're easily offended or triggered by graphic imagery, why would you willingly click on a video talking about a movie called _CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST?_
^this.
I accidentally click on loads of videos while scrolling on youtube mobile, so it can serve as a good warning in that case
I saw the movie until the pig scene because I've had enough during the turtle scene. The gory scenes involving humans are shocking but you can still see that no humans were killed (but you still get wonder how unethical they went through to shoot those scenes). I believe that the animal killings were their main tool to get the viewer horrified. Even watching this video, there was no issue showing some human flesh about to be eaten.
I’m just a bucket load of bad decisions I guess
because he noted he wouldn't show any graphic scenes. as long as i'm not subjected to that, i am curious about this movie, but will never watch it.
I always took Alan laughing at the impaled girl as though he did it
He was
Bitch I’m nascar who are you!!!!!!
he definitely did it
He lead to the events that made it happen but didn't physically do it.
Yes, they did it. The reviewer here shows his lack of overall understanding about the things he is paid to review.
Do you think the film would have been morally acceptable if they treated the actors well, steered clear of animal abuse, and chose an actor that wasn't a part of explotative media?
Dylan Gadzala maybe, maybe not. Part of the problem with it is the execution as well. It’s way too reliant on shock value and sensationalism and could have been way better if it weren’t for that
I think it needed to be made. It set a huge example and probably convinced a lot of people to not include actual animal deaths in movies. Also, it isn’t not morally acceptable. You’re basing this off of your idea of morality when everyone’s morals are different. I think your question would be better if it said “more morally acceptable” instead.
Check out Eli Roth’s Green Inferno
@Miguel Flagstaff Talk to an ultra conservative muslim and an ultra liberal pink haired girl and youll quickly see how untrue that is
@Miguel Flagstaff I'm not quite sure how you can say that. Objectivity regarding morality is difficult. The only way to assume it is to assume that there is a God, and to assume that God can determine what is objectively morally good and communicate it to you.
To some, objective moral good is killing certain types of people to cleanse the world of their horror. To a lot of people, that means killing certain types of dangerous criminals. Whats a dangerous criminal? It could be someone who murders or someone who spreads what some determine to be dangerous thought, be it then wrong religion (as it would sully God's name), it could be spreading ideas that you find to be evil (such as nazism to an ultra liberal pink haired girl or homosexuality to an ultra conservative muslim)
This isn't to say having a moral compass is bad, or even that I disagree with your perspective on moral good and bad, but it is to say that your idea of morality would shift if you were raised in a different way. It is to say that there is no objective moral good and moral evil.
If you can think of a concept that all humans from the beginning of humanity till today can agree or disagree with, you've found objective morality. The field of philosophy will be extremely envious of you, for there is not an insignificant number of people who spent their entire lives trying to determine what objective morality is.
I watched this movie in high-school with a friend and absolutely zero context as to what this was. It uh....was incredibly scarring given personal experiences.
I've seen this video pop up a few times in the feed and have actively avoided it, for obvious reasons. I've watched so much of your stuff lately that I felt comfortable enough to give it a go because of your style.
I really appreciate your handling of this movie. Well done, Sir.
Seriously, I love the ironic audacity of this film: To try making a point about how the media exploits violence for profit, in a film that was specifically made to profit from the exploitation of violent imagery. When I first saw this, I thought that was just absurd.
But now thinking about what they asked Ruggero to do, and how he responded by giving them exactly what they wanted, to such an extreme degree that it was banned in 40 countries, and murder charges filed, but presented this ultra-violent imagery within a plot of judgement against the very sort of exploitation he was being paid to create; I think of it now as highly subversive, possibly brilliant.
Nick Waddle That’s not what it’s about. I know one of the major characteristics of art is that it is open for interpretation, but this had a pretty clear message. It definitely wasn’t about how “all humans are inherently evil” mainly because that’s just not true. Objective evil doesn’t exist. Different people see different things as evil. The message was definitely closer to what the guy you replied to said. If anything it’s a huge lesson for western culture on cultural relativism. Also, labeling someone who doesn’t like the movie as a left wing pussy isn’t very academic. Especially when that claim has little to no evidence. I myself am left wing, but I love this movie and am definitely not a pussy. The guy commentating was just giving his opinion and he said he doesn’t like it for “personal reasons”. That could mean a number of things.
My thoughts exactly. The most ironic and first environmentalist movie. I have the uncut DVD and vhs and deem it an important piece of cinema. Fake News comes to mind so it foreshadowed media manipulation of the population.
Every shot of you has the “shocked face meme” get closer and closer. Thank you.
I was looking for this comment
Adalia child literally me lmaoo
Whaddaya know, a film from 1980 that perfectly predicted Logan Paul.
No?
Huschibaba When you put it like that, yeah, definitely. I guess I think it's just comparing moldy oranges to moldy tangerines.
I know this is RUclips haha. I was maybe too critical of saying it's not a "perfect" representation.. you know, no rape or murder or hapless destruction
DoodlyPear no rape and murder that we know of at least :)
Anton Ahah, I'm gonna have to give the Paul's benefit of the doubt for this one, sorry :p
@@doodlypear9393
Moldy oranges and moldy tangerines? Quite possibly the worst comparison I've ever read. Taking these examples and desiccating the actual relevance from both, it's cowardice/ignorance.
Whenever ‘non-union’ is specifically mentioned in one of these videos about how a film was made, you know shit’s about to go downhill.
Yeah.The Film Union is one of the few unions that I like.They are reasonable for a union
Yeah.The Film Union is one of the few unions that I like.They are reasonable for a union
Exactly.
Has anyone noticed the meme on his computer is getting closer each time the camera cuts back to Ryan?
Don't think I didn't notice your background peering closer in every shot..
Killing that poor turtle made me quit watch this movie.
Weak
@@sigmundbartosch3542 an apt description.
@@sigmundbartosch3542 no it was very disgusting and disturbing
Well I mean it was the main course of a nearby wedding
Jada Campbell-Bruce Then don’t watch the fucking movie
I remember I first saw this during deployment while googling the most disturbing movies. I had the DVD mailed to me and it literally made the rounds in my platoon. I swear whenever one guy would give it to the next he would warn him how gnarled it was, and these were guys that saw dudes getting blown up on the regular.
The closest I could ever come to watching this movie
I hear ya, I’ll never watch this movie I’ll never pay respects to a movie that took actively real lives
@@thehorrorcounselors4747 whos life was taken??
@Boom Diggaty you weren't even at the last meeting. Smh.
same, there are some things I just dont want having a place in my mind.
KiiDMarZ GameZ well they took the lives of several animals it was completely unnecessary
A tasteful essay about a really "tasty" film.
It's a tragic waste of ketchup.
Vicente Ortega Rubilar its a rather untasty film.
It taste like human flesh
Thomas Fernandez no it's lit
Tasty comment.
This was actually a very good analysis of the film. You should look into doing one for Face of Death. Another misunderstood exploitation flix.
Have considered it actually!!
Would be an extra challenging movie to review and especially edit. Alot of disturbing content but I got faith that you can pull it off.
*faces
@@RyanHollinger I would love to see you do Faces of Death. Take one for the team!
I watched this movie and all I can say is..I’m sorry turtle :(
When you realize what this movie tried to satirize in news media is still done to this day like it’s nothing... oh boy, has shit not changed in the slightest
Technically, it's satirizing the news media. Parody is done in a loving, "tongue-in-cheek" manor. Satire strives to point something out as horrible or absurd.
Lugbzurg you have a solid point. Thank you
Imma be honest I didn’t understand this video bc I couldn’t tell when he was talking abt the real or fake crew
The real crew are just actors. The fake crew in the movie are the antagonists hurting people.
@@sonicdv3953 but there's 3 crews. The first group who died, then the search party sent by the network, then there's the actual film crew making Cannibal Holocaust. OP is confused which one Ryan was talking about at parts and I don't blame him.
He was trying way too hard to sound smart.
IKR!?
@@portalmanHUN and over dramatic lmaoooo like don't cover the movie if you're just going to give it an outdated outrage review that everyone has already done so annoying
I didn't like the animal kills. They were very unnecessary.
Marauder623 mostly everything about this movie is unnecessary including the sensationalism and shock value it hinges on to appeal to some oddly specific audience
yea that's the perfect word. the animal scenes didn't make my stomach turn nearly as much as the rape scenes but at least I see how the rape scenes pertain to the plot. theres nothing horrific about killing animals for food in the jungle, and the fact that there were so many scenes of them actually killing animals simply for the sake of shock value is pretty disgusting when u think about it.
no one you know big difference between killing for food and torturing to be edgy in a film.
I think it because of the obvious torture before killing.
I'll kill this animal 👽
Ah the 1970's, a time when you could do literally anything and everything as long as you classed it as 'art' and 'misunderstood'...
WHAT THE SHIT I JUST LOOKED HIM UP AND THIS DIRECTOR IS STILL MAKING MOVIES???? WHAAAATTTTT
@@sofarle why wouldnt he?
Never forget that "Deep Throat" got a theatrical release.
@@trequor what's that about?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 A woman who has a crazy, made-up medical condition where her clitoris in in throat. There's lots of pornography
I feel like he just swaps back and forth between an American accent and a Scottish one
Isn't it just Irish?
Sincons I think it's Irish....
northern irish
He’s eye-rash dumb fuck, stupid idiot! Lol!?
He’s Irish you buttfuck
The irony and hypocracy of the movie along with it's message are what make it so remarkable. The fact it sparks such discussion is proof of it's success. Despite everything I'm glad it exists. If I was studying cinematography I'd definitely do an essay on this movie. The world might not be better for its existence, but it's certainly more interesting.
Totally agree! I just made 2 of my roommates watch it tonight. They were fairly unresponsive for most of it, then totally silent at the end. 2 minutes later there ended up being a 90 minute discussion of the details and how "morality" simply isn't the same for everyone, but within different contexts things are justified and people need to see both sides to the truth.
I’m just commenting for the nico nico ni
what a coincidence so am i nico nico nii~
I couldn't agree more with you about this Film: It's not just a B movie passed over as a Gorehound Release - it's Art in it's truest form. I really think CH - among other movies out there - is a direct reflection and proof that Man is the most Vicious animal of all!
"The world might not be better for its existence, but it's certainly more interesting."
BINGO. I think this movie is the last thing you should go for as a hard study on anything about society but as a movie, that's where the entertainment comes from. It's just a shock movie but one of the most influential. The fact that people actually thought this was real, despite how it was released SHOULD have been a massive clue that this was just a fictional story, really says a lot. The only other movie I can remember when I was growing up that had the same effect was The Blair Witch Project and then later on the original Paranormal Activity.
You know what, without the behind the scenes knowledge...this movie sounds pretty good
(Edit: wow, 1327 likes, didn't expect that....XD)
It has some bad acting, but apart from that it's really effective.
MovieNerd_EP the background of an artist wanting to make a controversial project about a controversial subject and getting prosecuted because of it?
Obsure Fragments The background about the artist literally doing the things the movie attempts to condemn in the process of making the movie.
You unironically use the word libtard, just get out of here
+Jonathan Tang Why are you so angry?
The fact that they killed real animals makes me so angry. I tried watching this movie and 20 minutes in and they killed that little animal I was done, turned it off immediately.
Meh it’s the circle of life you normie.
@@marv3n506 but it was unnecessary in this context, the animal didn't need to die, it could've been achieved with special effects but instead the director decided to kill an actual animal
@@marv3n506 wtf is wrong with you ??that was a living animals with a heartbeat that had to die for a stupid movie that’s not the circle of life
@@marv3n506 There's a difference between killing for necessity(extreme self defense or food) and for sensationalism for a movie.
It’s okay normie, your secure in America
so basically the movies a representation of logan paul’s trip to japan
vibes not at all but i get it
Only if logan and his crew ate the person after they found him
HA HA HA HA HA HA no.
Logan Paul is like the pretty new meat on the cell block and this movie is like the shower daddy who gets off to his own war flashbacks.
ChrisMathers3501 i meant in the way it’s a bunch of rich white westerners terrorising a culture they don’t understand whatsoever
I mean, in that way you're technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I'm just saying you're not comparing chalk and cheese, you're comparing a nub of chalk to a chalk factory.
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“Typical western thots”
Wow, what a prophetic line.
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Monk Killedababy describes every male of today
Some serious r/whoosh going on here... this is hilarious.
This movie's "shock value" is WAY overrated. With the exception of a VERY graphic and _real_ depiction of the slaughter and butchering of a sea turtle. Yeah.
Bijinius Cross not to mention 5 other animals
my question is how the fuck dose a _sea_ turtle makes it all the way deep into the south american jungle...
fat ratz oooo spooky just like the animals you eat every day stfu
56cpfan Do they graphically kill animals with their own hands on footage for the purpose to make money, everyday? No so you can Stfu.
I mean, they still do it for money? They just use more efficient tools and try and make it as painless as possible. I don't believe they wait till the animal is dead before they start butchering so they are taking it's life. And last time i checked their are documentary's about slaughter houses and all that.
I do find it fucked up, but i understand it's necessities and how life is. Chances are that animal would of probably died just as bad to another animal. Nature is fucking cruel as shit tbh and often times have 5x worse things than we do on a daily basis. I mean we don't paralyze something then lay eggs and let our babies kill and eat it afterwords. That is just one example of how fucked nature is compared to us. We maybe dark and evil at times, but eh natures worst...
RIP to the animals killed for this movie
That still haunts me.
No
@@anubis4032 wow thank you for all you have added to this conversation, you are essentially a genius and I can tell off your amazing comment alone
I do pity the animals, and it is rough to watch, but I do believe they fed the local tribes with the remains, so at least it didn't go to waste.
@Milena Shvedova definitely!
I would be ALL about promoting this film if they didn't kill animals and hurt their crew haha. I honestly love the twisted, eye opening message. Thanks for the video!
Kyros Droztamyr Why? You deserve to be in prison if you believe its okay to take away our freedom of speech to create works of art that provoke deep messages. It was obviously wrong of them to hurt animals and stuff, thats why I said that. But it isnt harmful to listen to the overarching message of "hey white ppl, dont butt in to other people's way of live and make fun of them/rape and pillage them, or it may end bad for you."
Pretty sure that was sarcasm.
…...I hope it was sarcasm.
involuntaryanalysis my comment or his? Mine is not, read my previous reply
i mean did they eat the animals? if they did then idt its as awful
BBB It is messed up they used real animals
The movie industry in the 70s wasn’t really safe and labor laws weren’t great , a example of that would be Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( half of everything was real in that movie such as the bones )
Don't worry about "graphic content", I've been careful to avoid anything considered 'distasteful' or 'uncomfortable'.
*Also, send some suggestions my way for future content by replying to this comment!*
Ryan Hollinger what about Hannibal the tv show it ran 3 seasons and I loved it and it also keeps the cannibal theme lol.
Ryan Hollinger a video examining the Russian film "Come and See" would be very cool, possibly the best war film ever made
Would love to see you cover the film "Apocalypse Now" and its rocky road of a production.
I'd love a look into Lars von Trier work
The Hannibal tv show!!!! an exploration of the dynamic between Will Graham and Hannibal, and its gruesome yet accurate (for me personally, at least) exploration of mental illness.
I think it's an absolutely horrible and nihilistic film that would be an amazing piece of horror if it wasn't for the animal cruelty and exploitation of the cast and crew. Because of that I can't like it at all.
Nothing is horrific about it except for how bad it is.
alexandra galici Especially with the fact that they had, for the time, amazing practical effects. There was NO REASON to kill real animals. I would want to watch this film for its mark on history... if not for the real animal death. And now the treatment of the actors and crew. I didn't know about that part until this video.
rb driftin How absolutely horrible was it?
On the blu ray release, there is a animal cruelty free version. I recommend to watch that version if you are going to watch it.
alexandra galici the indigenous cast members actually ate the them after the scene was film so i guess you could say their death wasn't pointless
I'm not even disturbed by the film itself *THE ANIMAL KILLINGS DISTURBED ME BADLY*
@Death Hand Studios just because you’ve seen worse doesn’t make this any less bad
@@Kneejair weird flex but ok
you eat meat stoppp
IF YOU'RE SO DISTURBED WHY AREN'T YOU A VEGETARIAN
@@quinn.0 I'm actually vegan....
I love this movie, but I can only watch the animal cruelty-free cut, real-life animal-killing is just harsh and unnecessary.
@Grant420 killing animals to eat is a part of nature. All animals do that. It's not the same as killing animals for entertainment or for making a movie
@@amanms1999 animals kill for entertainment in the wild too
@@amanms1999 fun fact though, these dudes barley had any budget and the animals they killed, they did eat since funds were that low
Aman M S lol they did eat it
the animals killed were eaten.
The music is calming though
Captain Deadpool for such a brutal film...your right
I'd rather hear the screams! 😍now that's music to my ears
and creepy
check out bucketheads live performance of the theme song
I’ve seen the film and this music makes me feel insane and maybe suicidal don’t watch the film
When I first watched Cannibal Holocaust years ago, my parents wanted to watch it with me, regardless of my warnings to them about its infamy. Needless to say, it made what is already an uncomfortable experience so much more so. My mother, who can't even watch the Saw films mind you, made it about halfway through before walking out on it. However, while I can't say that I enjoy this film, I do recommend it to any horror fan that wants to see the limits that the horror genre can go to.
see I can really handle dark horror movies, but I just think all the stories about the animal cruelty and everything would be on my mind while watching it and therefore I wouldnt be able to NOT base my opinion on it, if that makes sense..
crazy your mom cant watch saw films ahah those aren't really that bad.
Yeah, I hear you. Like Ryan said, the animal scenes are really hard to get through, especially the tortoise. My mom really doesn't like the whole torture genre, but I agree that Saw is rather tame compared to something like this or Martyrs.
Still, these are animals were getting killed over there on a dailey base and just in the same manner. The only difference was that there was a camera present this time. I can understand why vegans would be upset by this, but of you're a fan of horror but offended by the sight of food getting prepared, you're probably just as hypocritical as some may say this movie is.
The thing is that the animals getting killed in the movie weren't killed to make me a burger, they were killed for no reason other than having the shot for the movie, that could have been done easily without actually killing them....and I'm vegetarian but the situation really isnt the same thing imo
And then they were eaten. Like they were eaten every time someone needed food.
I watched this when I was 12 by accident, took me about 3 years to recover.
How did you recover?
That must have been hard
@@bacon_haired_dude7050 it was, I still remember the soundtracks, I tried to look for a track in another scene when they were in a jungle( wasn't really a track just scary drums) but I could never find it. Those drums haunted me for 3 years straight growing up I want to see if they could still trigger something.
@@cobaltshark934 I just slowly forgot about the movie until someday I looked for scary movies cause I couldn't remember the name. I found out it was this fucking movie.
Ahahahaaha
Despite the unethical approach used to create this movie, I would say that it’s message is relevant even today. Idk what your political view is, but the way msm goes about talking about shootings, and acts of violence is very similar to back then. It’s bias and aims to scare people and either intentionally or unintentionally romanticizes the criminals commuting the acts of violence.
I think that's the basic issue. Virtually anyone would agree with the message, but the act of agreeing with the message means you must condemn the film because it is *exactly* the kind of thing that it purports to be against. Sensationalist, and exploitative.
I think that's part of the genius of the film. You have to condemn what happened in the film if you like the film. It's a form of doublethink that makes us address how we look at real atrocities in the world - you can acknowledge, or you can ignore and let them happen, and if you acknowledge them you must condemn them or you are no better than the people who ignore it. It was meant also to make people think about who the real "savages" are - the people who live a lifestyle we consider "primitive", or the people who go and disturb someone else's culture for the sake of entertainment. Is it more vile that the tribe kills animals brutally and then cannibalizes the film crew? Or more vile that the film crew goes into the tribe, antagonizes them, hurts their members, sets stuff on fire, torments them, and otherwise fucks up their entire way of living for the sake of being douchebags and filming this supposed documentary? Which one you choose says a lot about that person, I think.
The message can be relevant...and it still be a dumb, artless film that is hammy and exploitative.
@@ThePhantomSafetyPin dude I was thinking the exact same thing. Excellent analysis
@@Albinojackrussel I think it was supposed too be ironic
Honestly is this movie even good? It seems that it just got famous for the gore
As fucked up as it is, its kind of very artistic from a cinematic point of view, it is a good. But its fucked up, and feels kinda messed up to admit the film making about it is good and unique.
you have to be some sort of lunatic artist if you want to enjoy this film in its entirety.
or you can just enjoy it normally like a sane person by closing your eyes during the gore and unnecessary death scenes
the movie is pointless without those scenes u coward, it's meant to be horrific and shocking.
why the fuck would those scenes be included if it's "normal" and "sane" to close ur eyes like a bitch at something u literally know is fake?
smh u aren't built for reality if u can't even handle movie gore
@@travisberry3466 you could rewrite the movie by only implying the deaths or just showing split frames of them and it would still have the same social commentary, story and shock (less disgusting stuff ofc).
Those gore scenes are literally unnecessary and just the director's morbid and artistic curiousity to horrific deaths.
And if you recall, the director was charged for murder because the scenes were too realistic. NOT EVERYONE will immediately think this is fake. Not everyone will digest this gory cinematic experience. Not everyone holds the same mindset as you. Widen your perspective of reality and realize not everyone is YOU.
Thank you for reading.
(to add: the animal deaths aint fake.)
@@megugu2155 ok so if ur so sensitive to the gore then there's other movies out there for you, u can't expect others to censor their own artistic vision because some people find it too disturbing
ur the one that needs to widen their perspective, not me. ur sitting here whining about the movie's imagery and complaining that it's unnecessarily graphic etc., clearly these types of films aren't for u
don't project ur insecurities on me, it's my mindset that allows me to think critically and enjoy something that is shocking and gruesome because I have the mental maturity to handle the visuals given the context
I don't think anyone could deny that the message he tried to carry was hypocritical with him doing most of them within his own piece, but still the message rings true in most cases, and overall it doesn't make it any less valid.
Never saw the movie, but from the first few minutes of actually hearing about it, it still has a narrative that holds up.
Weirdest movie honestly, its using gore and violence and sex to shock but if you remove it all, there is still something to it
Having it less violent and making it with a lot less issues, pretty okay concept and twist possibly
This is almost on the same level as ‘cuties’ in the hypocrisy field
Less than five minutes in and, having seen this movie, I can tell what your issues are with the movie (very much understandably). I watched the movie because it was around 2010 or so, and I had watched "Paranormal Activity", which had me thinking about "The Blair Witch Project" and "The Last Broadcast". I remembered reading about another horror mockumentary that inspired movies like that and I went on to read about it, found and watched "Cannibal Holocaust".
I think the movie's plot is an interesting one, if excessive. However, like almost everyone else, I think the on-screen animal killings were just too much (especially considering that some of the animals they killed were, I think, protected species). It was frustrating to me for the particular reason that the movie was "about" sensationalism in the media, namely documentaries...aaaand yeah, quite a lot of stupid irony there. The rest of the controversial material, I thought was actually kind of neat to a degree. Namely how Deodato had to produce the cast, including the extras, allegedly killed during filming and he showed how he did the scenes in court, in fact I think that would have made a fascinating real life documentary.
Is the content of the movie excessive? In my opinion, yes, even discounting the animal deaths. I don't really care to watch it again and I don't blame anyone who can't stomach it. That said, I think that, otherwise, it's some creative film making. It makes me sad that it's marred by such a poor decision by the director.
Agreed -- the idea, message and even the horror aspects were fine, but the director didn't draw some lines in the sand that needed to be drawn. That said, I feel that a lot of the indignation that mainstream media and film news felt over this film was more due to its criticism of "first world" countries committing atrocities but accusing indigenous peoples of being "primitive" (though his own depiction of the indigenous people isn't 100% correct either, with regards to their traditions, food or clothes). There was strong indignation at Vauqier's Afrique 50 as well, which wasn't even a horror film of any kind, just a documentary about the lives of natives in a French colony -- the Eurocentric media couldn't forgive such an anti-imperialist take, and the film was banned (I believe scraps of it remain and can be seen on RUclips; I've seen a few scenes from some film class DVD of politically censored media).
Yes, the animal scenes were unnecessary, and it begs the question if the director isn't a hypocrite for using exploitation factors in a film that he claims is anti-exploitation. However, I'm shocked that this film almost threw the film crew into jail for alleged murder and obscenity, and the movie was suppressed across the world, when in the Twilight Zone movie, due to the director's severe negligence and the terrible, illegal working conditions he put the cast through (including very young child actors), three performers died, two of which were children (decapitated and crushed by a helicopter in front of their guardians). The film was released with barely a murmur by the film critics; Landis left the scandal unscathed (though the movies he'd go on to direct, like Beverly Hills Cop 3 and Blues Brothers 2000 were critical and financial flops); and to this day while most critics agree that it's a bad and boring film, few seem to care overly much about the lives sacrificed so brutally for it. There's actually a large number of films and TV shows where cast or crew died during filming (Catch-22, Con-Air, The Walking Dead), and it's terrible that the directors who put the people under them into such precarious situations go away scot-free (while the director of Cannibal Holocaust, who hadn't orchestrated the death of any performer or crew-member, was thoroughly horse-whipped). Some directors are even praised as geniuses -- if it hadn't been for Clint Eastwood's common sense during the making of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, he and co-star Eli Wallach would have been killed in the bridge explosion scene, because Sergio Leone didn't ensure any kind of on-set security even where pyrotechnics were concerned. He was insanely bad to his casts. Wallach was seriously injured numerous times during the course of shooting.
"makes me feel immoral just for watching it". TRUE
The way he describes it makes the movie look pretty good, not necessarily enjoyable but genuinely well made and original
I watched this video multiple times, thinking "oh it's probably fucked but how bad could it be". Then I watched the thing. It's ... almost physically painful to watch, especially the back half, where you're following the lost crew's tapes. The lack of closure due to how the film is concluded leaves you feeling barren inside, and I just couldn't stop thinking about what all I'd seen. I think that may be one of the most repugnant things about this film to me; I have no closure for the attrocities it presents, so now my soul wants to go back and see it again to try to find some kind of reason, even though I know it isn't there. Damn this film.
This movie is unwatchable and beyond vile, I feel for the animals and the actors tortured to make it. Even watching this breakdown is hard.
That dreamy score is actually pretty haunting in Cannibal Holocaust though. It's called "dissonance" and creates an unnerved feeling in the audience. Something horrible paired with something that should be pleasant but just doesn't _fit._ I find that way more effective for sticking in your head though.
Like how 2Girls1Cup has a romantic theme in the background of girls literally eating shit.
Or how you'll have a happy go lucky tune over extreme violence or slaughter.
rhonda howard thats true..alot og italian horror movies used that tatic in the 70s and 80s
The technical term for it is anempathetic music. Like when a nursery rhyme is used in a horror movie, or the romantic smarmy music in Cannibal Holocaust.
rhonda howard I've managed to go years without knowing what 2girls1cup ever was. After reading your comment I now know what I never wanted to know.
ASMRyouVEGANyet? Fake shit. Real puke though. 😂
I would point out that something being hypocritical doesn't automatically make the point it's trying to make incorrect.
Yeah, of course that's the case. If a robber says "stealing is bad" you don't hate what he said, you hate the fact that of all people *he's* the one that said it. It makes him seem dishonest and somewhat annoying while making the statement less important since even he doesn't follow it!
He got ya there. Gustav headass
@@humbertocobian4740 The person who doesn't steal but says the same thing the robber says. The issue is the person who hears "stealing isn't good" wether that person can distinguish the speaker from the point rather than not being able to seperate the two effectively.. (vice versa) and instead have their emotions take over and then throwing the baby out with the bath water (usually the point) and just go into an emotional unproductive fit
Genocide is simply never a good look, fam.
Every American Film: *You sure about that...*
@@limon9614 now you're over exaggerating
Eren Jaeger: *oh?*
Eren yeager begs to differ
I saw this movie as a kid. Granted i didnt understand english back then and i only saw some glimpse of random scenes from the movie, i thought the synopsis was “crew gets in jungle, encounter bad cannibal tribe and they gotta defend themselves” and was rooting for the crews and was disappointed when they all die at the end
The question posed by the film is "who are the real savages"?.
Thats the only good part of the movie i guess😌
I can’t look at a turtle without thinking of that scene and I hate it
I've never seen this movie and never heard of it until a few years ago. I wanted to watch it, but I don't like for animals to get hurt/killed. Turtles are one of my favorite animals. I don't know if I can watch it now knowing that the turtle is killed for real.
Laura Hutzel It’s not a very pleasant scene. It gets torn apart and you watch all of it. So yeah, you probably shouldn’t watch it, especially cause turtles are your favorites.
@@kingeon6988 Torn... Torn apart as in limb by limb?
Omega Synth yes, they start playing with it's intestines as well. Not recommend
@@finnezyyt That's is A BIT TOO MUCH-
You think this is bad? Check out Goodbye Uncle Tom. That film is probably an actual crime against humanity.
Troy Schulz What’s that movie about?
Troy Schulz ??
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Barron A
Cannibal Holocaust was just one in a long-line of "mondo" films that we're popular at the time. Mondo were the specific genre of exploitation films that Holocaust was responding to; pseudo-documentaries that often staged or manipulated events for dramatic effect. These films are considered the progenitor of the snuff film myth, since real on-screen death was often a major part of their advertising. Rarely were people actually killed, and as far as we're aware no one's death was specifically engineered for the film, but there were plenty of real corpses, and plenty of very real animal cruelty. Goodbye Uncle Tom was one such film, it was a mondo focusing on the 19th century Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, with a framed around a group of time travelers in the Antebellum South making a documentary. The film was shot in Haiti with the full co-operation and participation of the government, at the time led by the dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duavlier. Most of the extras were political dissidents and prisoners, and were held in the very real slave quarters and were effectively treated the same as, if not worse than, their real-world counterparts. It's undoubtedly one of the most appalling and distasteful things you'll ever see in your life, and knowing the full story behind its production only makes it infinitly worse.
Troy Schulz Interesting 👌
Troy Schulz what's is it About?
This movie reminds me of Cuties in a morality sense. The idea of the film was a really good one, but it was executed so poorly it comes off as something dirty because of twisted morals behind production.
I’d take this over Cuties any day.
The thing is that CH is executed extremely well executed, it's just that its own moral dimension is convoluted.
The music at the beginning of the film made me feel unsettled. The animal killings and what the crew did to that tribe woman made me almost throw up and leave the room, especially with that Turtle scene. And finally the ending just left me completely scarred and frozen inside. O_O :'(
it doesnt sound like a very good movie to see then!lol
No! You're right it's not! :'(
What happened in the end?
Sure as fuck won't watch it!
Bilveytoman I would disagree, when you mention the tribe women I guess you mean the rape scene ?
That is a great scene for example;
of course it is unsettling but that is the purpose, (it is totally understandeble to dislike the film)
The rape scene shows the men of the crew becoming monster-like while the girlfriend is right beside him trying to stop him,
I see that scene as a great critique of male behaviour, which is just now as relevant as ever
All together it's not a pleasent ride but an intense an moving one that is at least doing something with you,
I think :)
“A great critique of male behavior “ ? Really ?
Ok I'm not super happy about the animal cruelty but this is one of the most amazing, influential horror movies ever made. It pretty much invented found footage. It is totally horrific and hard to watch.
When Eli Roth made The Green Inferno, he showed Cannibal Holocaust to the native tribe who acted in the movie. Naturally, hidden from the world they assumed the film was a comedy and laughed the whole way through.
See Man say what you will about Eli, but at least he probably treats his crew with decency
I would laugh to if i ever saw myself acting in a movie.
"lol, i look so goffy eating that mans intestine"
I finally watched it. Jesus Christ this movie is the personification of everything vile people can do
Democracy: "Censorship in art is unacceptable."
Cannibal Holocaust: "Good to know."
Democracy: "Shut up!"
To be fair, the only pieces of this that cross moral boundaries are in the depictions of actual animal cruelty and in the poor treatment of the workforce that made the film.
I'm 14 and this is deep!
Democracy =/= Allowing animal cruelty. That alone shows a distasteful lack of decency in Deodato's personality. I'd be ashamed if I was related to him. As a human, I'm ashamed he didn't pay a steeper price.
@@jamesvalentine2103 Yeahyeahyeah. Go be ashamed of your local KFC.
@@ragrag5470 rigragrog, I'm glad you agree with me.
Thank you for the thoughtful explanation! A filmmaker's use of unethical tactics to satirize unethical filmmaking tactics is so . . . inadvertently meta! 😳
P.S. Here, may I ask you a follow-up question about your reviews of the _Scooby-Doo_ movies? (How strange to have both topics come up in the same post.)
7:50
Bro, you're gonna knock your coffee over all over your laptop.
This movie was just remade by Eli Roth. It's called "The Green Inferno" very graphic but it will resonate with you.
Yeah, I also realized that when Ryan was talking about it's plot and how Green Inferno is so alike with it with the Amazon tribe and killings and stuff. Though in the Green Inferno they made it where the Amazon tribe are the bad ones and that the crew didn't really do anything wrong.
Green Inferno isn't a remake, it's just heavily influenced by Cannibal Holocaust. The documentary the crew were making the Cannibal Holocaust was called "The Green Inferno" and Eli Roth named the movie after it.
Definitely not a remake and is widely considered an unofficial sequel about that tribe years later that have remained savage from the original incident.
Lmao the thing where the activist didn't even know a thing about the sht they're about to go in?
It had potential but it's Eli Roth, where potential goes to die.
this movie was innovative and brilliant,,,first found footage film, perspective shifts, moral ambiguity, tonal shifts, no bad guys except maybe the media...it's just very disgusting as well
Moral ambiguity? The film crew were the initial aggressors and pushed the villagers to violence. Not sure why they would rape anyone in a fit of rage outside of it being for shock value though.
Serious question, speaking as an animal lover, but why is the footage of animals being killed controversial in Cannibal Holocaust, whereas footage of horses falling over in literally any film made prior to (roughly) 1950 completely ignored? They used to deliberately trip horses when filming battle scenes, for example, which usually resulted in them breaking limbs and death. I enjoy classic cinema, despite a substantial chunk of it being overtly racist (especially anything directed by DW Griffiths), but I can view most of these films within their historic context. However, I find films like 1925's Ben-Hur difficult to watch because I know the cruelty you see on screen is very real.
There are plenty of examples of films post-1950 as well where animal cruelty/neglect is either present on screen or (more commonly) happening off-screen, including recent blockbusters like The Hobbit.
My point is here is people are fixated on the animal cruelty aspect of Cannibal Holocaust, which I'm in no way defending, but are more than happy to watch films both modern and historic without complaint. It's only because it's more obvious in Cannibal Holocaust (or perhaps because it's a low-budget B-horror movie) that people get up in arms.
I think it's also because not many people know the behind the scenes of most movies, and don't know that the violence was real. CH is well know for the real animal torturing and killing, so people are more likely to complaint about it that say, complain about The Hobbit animal cruelty(even I didn't know about that until now for example).
Or they're just hypocrites, there is also this option xD
yea it's mostly cognitive dissonance, in shows like game of thrones 30,000 + square feet of leather and fur was used, but people don't even care about that. no one seems to have consistent feelings about animal cruelty these days.
woogusaurus Wait a sec on that, because leather and fur is usually obtained from the meat industry(usually it's from cows for the leather and rabbits for the fur), so technically it's not animal abuse\cruelty unless it comes from a fur farm(from animals like foxes, weasels etc..) and it's not easy to determine which one is which, since also fake fur looks very similar to the real one.
Take also into account that complaining about real furs is not trendy anymore, now the hypocritical PETA assholes prefer to whine about killing rats in videogames.
LadyKraken I'm just saying that people aren't consistent with their status on animal cruelty. People will complain when a few animals are killed on screen, but they are perfectly fine with using thousands of dead animals for clothing and decoration in a big franchise like game of thrones. There is no connection made between the two 'films', and that is the issue. It's either all ok, or none of it is ok. There is no inbetween fallacy
And I'm agreeing on that, but I also think that most people percieve those things differently because the animals are killed or being abused for different reason. If an animal is killed primarly for its meat, then most people don't care about if its skin is then used for a jacket, but if the animal is killed for motivations considered "futile"(like for fur, sport, medicine, entertainment and what not)then its death doesn't serve any justifiable purpose and people are gonna complain about it. It's like with korean dogs, people kill pigs, chickens and cows in the million everyday to eat, but if korean people eat dogs then people are gonna whine about it like no tomorrow, because they percieve it as an useless death.
This movie can be seen as a fairly good cinematic version of "Heart of Darkness"
The horror the horror.
Travis Huey heart of darkness has nothing in common with cannibal holocaust other than a tropical setting. Apocalypse now is actual adaptation as it actually shares its themes structure and characters. Cannibal holocaust is just excess shock value for the sake of it.
@@antic2347 the core points of all three though are the same, that when people from the US & Europe go into developing countries & places they perceive as lawless, and have the opportunity to exploit people they see as weaker or more vulnerable than themselves, they are likely to stray so far from "civilised" behaviour as to become monsters. I'm not sure I agree with that point 100% but it's certainly borne out by the history of (e.g.) the Spanish Conquistadors, the Belgian Congo, the British in India, Kenya, Malaysia, the white colonists in Australia and so on. Basically some of us do become monsters.
Skiamakhos that’s not my point. I know they both explore exploitation. My point is that cannibal holocaust is not an adaptation of heart of darkness as the first comment suggests
@@antic2347 yes, but I don't think that's quite the point that they were hinting at. They're all coming from essentially the same place, even if they're not adapting Joseph Conrad's book. It's in the same tradition, as is Céline's "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit" to some extent.
Watched the movie. The animal cruelty disgusted me past the point of any appreciation of the rest of the story. There was no need to do that to real animals, with the human bodies it was obvious they could have easily made prop animals and got roughly the same cinematic effect.
Agreed! They could easily have faked the deaths. There is no justification at all for the killing of the animals. In an interview with one of the actors he said that they did have an effects for the monkey deaths, but the director wanted the real thing.
Plus it started the trend of animal cruelty in other cannibal movies. I saw one still of a monkey being tied up and eaten by a snake that will haunt me for life (I can't remember which movie I think it was Cannibal Ferox).
Plus he treated the extras badly, like with the hut burning scenes the extras were really put in danger.
0:31 that picture on the computer is me when he almost knocks his cup of coffee onto his laptop
Why would cannibalism be presented as anything other than negative?
Grim2 well, some communities in different areas of the world believe that eating their dead ancestors can help them get to the other side. Look into the Fore people. Though, they unfortunately contracted Kuru due to someone (who they ritualistically ate) contracting sporadic CJD. In other words, probably best to not eat human brains. Though some cultures are very different than our own. Idk. Not my place to judge, I suppose.
Exactly... eating each other is a terrible thing.
Cephalon_ Pestilence And other cultures would find putting dead people in the ground as terrible. Nobody is physically hurt if the persons is already dead and as a tribe member they would WANT their body to be eaten just like some of us want our bodies put in the ground. Unless you think eating meat in general is terrible... Which your response would then make sense.
Grim2 Different cultures have different perspectives and opinions. To the tribe eating a dead person isn't wrong and can be just as normal as how we bury our loved ones. It's no different to eating a dead pig.
Grim2 because not all cannibals went about the way this movie shows it
Gotta say, all it took for me to never want to see this movie is the fact that the animal deaths were real. Nope. Just nope.
We kill millions of animals daily, for fur, for meat for sport. Is it so horrible to kill a few for art? It is, but we still do it en masse.
Are you not intrigue what the turtle looks like without it's shell?
Carl's Brother not liking seeing death doesn’t make someone gay tf you smoking bro
@Carl's Brother ur a sad pussy
Some people are just very sensitive with animal deaths nothing gay about it
I’m a horror nerd, but I could only watch this film one time. It’s too f*cking real.
The only scene that truly was memorably disturbing for me to watch was the authentic "carving" of the turtle out of its shell.
At least the turtle died quickly. The poor muskrat was the only animal in that movie that died slowly and torturously.
OH, GOD! I CAN'T!
Even though you cut out the more graphic parts, I had the video scrolled down just to listen instead of watch ahaha... I have an image of the girl’s death still in my head and it makes me sick, so I just didn’t want to risk it. I agree that this film is uncomfortable to talk about, but I’m glad you gave the background and a well-made explanation about it. Thank you.
KeybladerStorm same
From my experience of graphic movies your imagination can be more graphic than what is presented although there are times were you see things you're probably better off not seeing
Softie
KeybladerStorm But you can kill heartless without a second thought? Absolutely disgusting...
madlee in love I guess you will find me absolutely disgusting also or even more so because I love this movie. It's a classic! :)
The animal death in this movie wounded me psychologically. Honestly, I wasn't ready for it.
I watched this as a child and I still have the image of the impaled woman burned in my brain.
European viewers: “graphic, you’ve been warned”
Americans: “oh I saw that in the 3rd grade.”
European films are a lot less prude than US ones?
Think you’re forgetting about European classics such as A Serbian Film my dude
Lol I totally did though
Bruh, wtf are you saying. Its not Europe who censors every fuck or swear word in music or nudity in films. Its exactly the other way around. Americans are the sensitive prudes here
It'sColdInMay XD nice joke
This movie s definitely hard to watch and is very gruesome. But from a cinematic standpoint, it's a masterpiece. (In my eyes anyway)
Jacob Gorman I agree. I really love the film.
I haven't seen it but I'm curious. Could you elaborate on that or why you feel that way?
Synpai it’s the direction. The acting. The cinematography. The way it’s paced and how well it’s executed. It all feels so genuine and is truly bone chilling. Because people want horror today to be all cheap jump scares and weak scares. But cannibal holocaust is so expertly executed by the whole crew. It’s a shame it gets overlooked.
Jacob Gorman Mhmm, alright. Thank you!
Pretty damn authentic.
The music on this film is awesome.
I once read someone say about "Cannibal Holocaust": "You'll watch this movie for the first time, and you'll want to watch it again...but you never will." I bought the DVD, watched the movie for the first time, wanted to see it again for its' sheer audacity and uncompromising nature, can't even stick it back in the DVD player. It's the Grand-daddy of all f'd up films. At least I still have The Shining to worship.