NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
bushape-29263
I watch a lot of movies each week and I find this movie to be the most disturbing of the hundreds I have watched this year alone.
There are several scenes that very unnecessary and very brutal. This movie should be banned because of the actual killing of six animals. They are not glancing shots either, close-up's of animals being killed just to make a movie.
It's a disgusting film.
The plot to the movie has been used several times before. Lost in the Amazon and someone comes to the rescue. What they find is a little different.
I imagine it has it's cult following of whack-o's, doesn't most of the controversial movies?
jantelo
So here we are making a movie about how the white devil impacted this tribe
Jacob R. Crosby-English
Blair Witch Project came out in 1999 as Paranormal Activity did in 2007 (originally 2005), Cannibal Holocaust was the beginning of found footage!More than just shaky cameras and a blessing of no digital effects, Cannibal Holocaust is controversial, practical and risqué as a found footage film should be. The journey of who the real Cannibals are, makes you consider the definition of Cannibal once more. Considering how Cannibals can be hungry enough even for another human being to be degraded and belittled of a stone-age culture. With those film cameras in grip like a pistol, it adds more the journey of these "lost Americans" and their intentions of recording footage as a trophy and eradication more than an observation of stone-age cultures.Clearly this was a big deal in 1980 for how realistic it looks and even makes CGI in today's technological standards look like a couple of steps behind! But once you've seen it again it is obvious with the practical effects and if you research the controversy that surrounded this film. They literally had to take this film to court! Blair Witch Project was good, but jittery and shaky if the lack of dialogue makes you impatient. Paranormal Activity set the digital standard of found footage, however was shattered in my belief over the 2007 ending over the 2005 ending.Cannibal Holocaust it's pacy, it's edgy and it makes you cringe and clinch no other found footage film's done. Especially when it comes to controversy, A Serbian Film counter-argued in 2011 and succeeded.
blackmamba99971
At the time most Hollywood movies allowed animals to die in a film. From horses, to dogs, which were strays plus the few nocturnal bats. Cannibal holocaust was also the first movie to introduce Found footage sequences to make it seem more real than it actually is. A story about a group of anthropologist thrill seekers who wanted to make a documentary about a hidden tribe not seen by any white man in history. Tales of past cannibalistic people started to surface in the mid to late seventies as borders in the amazon forest became public after much heated debates in the U.N.Soon countless documentaries were told about reclusive, and often remote tribal people on camera. Some that became violent resulted in either internal executions or from an outside source such as the military regimes who thwarted the indigenous people as punishment. Yet to give this film a broader scope the realistic viewpoints of the troupe landed them in deep trouble as their idealistic way through uses of unneeded violence such as gang raping one of the women or killing animals as a means to eat. The effects bordered both realism, and daunting horror as each trekker became victim to their own debauchery, and unconfined judgment to get that one perfect shot even in the face of death.After this film was shown in theatres most went to the humane society, and vetoed Cannibal Holocaust from the public eye because it was so honestly raw, and horrific to stomach. Censors from all over the US banned it from being shown because of the extremities, and wanton chaos that the story had displayed. In fact it was vaulted until an appeal was issued some twenty years later VIA the freedom of speech act was brought up in the shortest court case in history. Since then this film had been the pinnacle of later films such as the Blair Witch Project and countless other movies that uses found footage techniques.Except with this film, not all could still stomach some of the gratuitous gore, or unneeded sequences of killing animals such as the turtle, or boar, and even the Muskrat. The cruelty displayed in Cannibal Holocaust still lingers to those viewers who saw it the first time, and has never adapted well to other such films. Perhaps the desensitization dug deeper than it would allow but for newer audience members it has a cult following. For me I do not like this film. It uses too much grotesque misogynistic scenes that displays at how thoughtless, and ridiculous a human can be.Although it was supposed to be an anthropology study, it soon became a mindless crazed romp in the jungle with a group of students who only wanted to be famous no matter the cost. Yet in the end their only means of remembrance got burned in the cellar incinerator along with all of their notes, and collected archived footage. An ironic result that stated to the outside world that the amazon forest should remain a mystery, and for those who trespass onto sacred ground knowing or not knowing the rules could get them killed. Either way the people have been ongoing since the stone age, and does not need to be disturbed by any interference's. Not recommended to anyone under the age of eighteen. This a very volatile film and must not be watched alone.
