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I don't know if you guys have seen the CS main page recently, but they were plugging their current favorite movie soundtrack, which this week happens to be a "haunting and beautiful" set of music from a movie called Cannibal Holocaust.
Well, I'm not a fan of horror movies, and judging from the cover alone I was thinking this movie was one of those "shock horror" movies. You know, they take grotesque and see how far they can stretch it before they themselves can no longer film it. Exploitation, sexual overtones, enough blood to fill fifty bathtubs, that kind of thing. According to IDMb, the movie's been banned in about six countries including the U.K.
They say curiosity killed the cat, and I know this could be applied to me on so many levels. I would never see this movie, being the old, wise, and incurably boring person that I am. But I was curious, and looked for reviews. Along the way I found its web site, but I'm at work and can't look at it.
According to what I've read, the Italian director is a genius, and an insane one at that. Most of the reviewers agreed that Cannibal Holocaust was a thinking movie with a clear message, that being that being civilized doesn't mean that a human being can't be cruel and depraved. Since this movie's a shocker, it shows everything (one reason I know I'll never see it).
It revolves around this professor who goes to South America, deep into its jungles, searching for the film crew that went there a year before to film cannibal tribes and disappeared. He carefully befriends the aborigines and they give him the film, which shows what happened to the crew. It seems the crew had filmed for a while, found their subject boring, then employed various means to provoke the tribe into harshly responding in order to make their film more interesting. Apparently the film crew descended quite far into depravity, in the hopes of getting "good stuff", and went a bit insane while they were at it. The natives' response was swift and horrible, and thoroughly deserved, according to the reviewers.
You know what they say about "be careful what you wish for", right?
I don't know why, but the reviews alone are disturbing. Perhaps because through them I can imagine the film well, and such deplorable behaviour is so sadly true sometimes. Who is the real savage here?
As an added bonus to those who are REAL sadists, the animal butcherings in the film are REAL.
I won't be seeing this film now or ever.
I don't know why I chose to write about this, either. Except maybe as another example of how I avoid movies that upset me. But these days most movies upset me. I'm such a loser.
Well, I'm not a fan of horror movies, and judging from the cover alone I was thinking this movie was one of those "shock horror" movies. You know, they take grotesque and see how far they can stretch it before they themselves can no longer film it. Exploitation, sexual overtones, enough blood to fill fifty bathtubs, that kind of thing. According to IDMb, the movie's been banned in about six countries including the U.K.
They say curiosity killed the cat, and I know this could be applied to me on so many levels. I would never see this movie, being the old, wise, and incurably boring person that I am. But I was curious, and looked for reviews. Along the way I found its web site, but I'm at work and can't look at it.
According to what I've read, the Italian director is a genius, and an insane one at that. Most of the reviewers agreed that Cannibal Holocaust was a thinking movie with a clear message, that being that being civilized doesn't mean that a human being can't be cruel and depraved. Since this movie's a shocker, it shows everything (one reason I know I'll never see it).
It revolves around this professor who goes to South America, deep into its jungles, searching for the film crew that went there a year before to film cannibal tribes and disappeared. He carefully befriends the aborigines and they give him the film, which shows what happened to the crew. It seems the crew had filmed for a while, found their subject boring, then employed various means to provoke the tribe into harshly responding in order to make their film more interesting. Apparently the film crew descended quite far into depravity, in the hopes of getting "good stuff", and went a bit insane while they were at it. The natives' response was swift and horrible, and thoroughly deserved, according to the reviewers.
You know what they say about "be careful what you wish for", right?
I don't know why, but the reviews alone are disturbing. Perhaps because through them I can imagine the film well, and such deplorable behaviour is so sadly true sometimes. Who is the real savage here?
As an added bonus to those who are REAL sadists, the animal butcherings in the film are REAL.
I won't be seeing this film now or ever.
I don't know why I chose to write about this, either. Except maybe as another example of how I avoid movies that upset me. But these days most movies upset me. I'm such a loser.