Francesca Ciardi, Luca Barbareschi, Perry Pirkanen
DVD Release Date: December 20, 2005
Stats: 2,439 reviews
This film is terribly misunderstood. It's actually a culture piece focusing on contrasts within different societies. It also contradicts itself somewhat as we see the 'Sensationalists/Exploiters' being punished for their acts, albeit within a sensationalist/Exploitation film. It'...( read more)
A pretty good movie, both laugh and gore was there! For a 1979 movie, this was actually quite good, I did enjoy it, cult film, go rent it ;) unless you're in peta, then don't cause they kill animals... haha
A truly remarkable film that absolutely lives up to its reputation as one of the most shocking movies ever made. Of course, 'Cannibal Holocaust' suffers a few minor flaws in its acting and dialogue, but they're more than made up for by the film's overall boldness and intelligenc...( read more)
Cannibal holocaust is a truly charged viewing experience; in all its 20 years of existence no other non mondo film (until maybe Men behind the sun) had such a reputation to shock, even today it is believed by some at the UKs trading standards to be an actual snuff film. CH is not...( read more)
Completely original and horrible. This strikes you at the brain and makes you question a lot about society. Who is more evil: The savage who kills to eat or the civilized man who kills the savage? The music is what completely does it for me when watching the film. It is so breath...( read more)
holy shit this movie is too disgusting and disturbing, really a lot of the things in this movie were not necessary, in the movie and during the making.......
This movie could had been a classic masterpicre for me...with all the inside critic to our sick sansationalist media, its just great...I just wonder why did Ruggero Deodato wanted to use innocent animals in such a cruel way, i know its for more controversy but its just wrong...a...( read more)
Banned in more countries than you have fingers. This movie was extremely controversial. When released, the movie was believed to be real. In fact, Ruggero Deodato (director) was imprisoned for 10 days before he brought forth the actors who were thought to have been killed on film...( read more)
Sin duda una película que se ha convertido ya de culto por los fans del genero de horror, no solo por las crudas escenas que presenta, sino por el mensaje que lleva detrás, un punto de vista cruel sobre las aún mas crueles verdades de lo que el ser humano es capáz de hacer.
guys!!! this movie is horrible!! they actually kill the animals in real life for the movie!! look it up on wikipedia. some of the actors were actually killed for the movie too! it's disturbing and wrong!! im not kidding around!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust
amazing movie , intense and brutal , a great look at american society and the human psyche. shows you just what the average human is capable of doing for no reason other then to do it. im a trapper so the animal killings didnt bother me (iv had to do worse before, the turtle scene however was one of the saddest things i have ever seen.) as much as the rape scenes. i downloaded the uncut version without knowing it was the uncut version. the one thing i dont understand is why the cut version shows the snake killing, are snakes okay to kill but not monkeys or turtles? that was the thing that most pissed me off with this movie. the monkey killing was about as humane as a kill can get , as was the snake , but for some reason they think snakes dont deserve the respect other animals are afforded.
the animal killings (especially the turtle scene) and the rapes were sick-but overall, i liked every other part of the film
this movie is reli good. ive only seen the cut version but still a reli gd filmbut for a movie that was ment 2 be banned it could of been sicker and more goreyer than it is. yer its got rape and animal cruality on it but still. i dunno if eery thing is real or not on this movie but if it is or not could of been far more disterbing than it is. still a reli gd film and worth waching
unfortunetly ive got the cut version ive seen the uncut and it was disturbing the turtle scene was sick so was the monkey scene in the cut we still get to see a spider and a snake get killed but the uncut we see 4 more animals get killed this is my favourite film ever i luved it the cut heavily censors the rape scenes which is weird cause i spit on ur grave shows the full rape scenes on that film overall get cannibal holocaust its the best!
yeaaaah.. if saw, hostel and all other movies like them are sick, this movie is "crazy out of range sick"! wow. not ever gonna argue on that. the only time i would recomend anyone seeing this, is so that person know it would never ever see anything as sick again, caus this is the top, or bottom.. of sickness.
Cannibal Holocaust is indeed a very tough watch and contrary to what many people think the animal violence is completely unnecessary--at least showing it is.
I like animals more than about 93% of people and the animals killed were used for food. At least the movie's plot would have us believe. If I'm in the amazon and I need to eat I would kill an animal (quickly and humanely as possible) if I had no other alternative. I put off watching this movie for so long because of said violence, but there were so many other offensive things going on in Cannibal Holocaust that I forgot about them and fast forwarded through those animal scenes.
But those scenes really didn't add much to the tone or the plot of the movie and are therefore as unnecessary as they are repulsive. But if you want to watch the movie, the DVD gives you the option to watch an animal cruelty-free version.
The animal killings, however a lil disturbing, are what helped set the tone of this movie. Definately not a film for the feeble minded or those with a weak stomach, but
I was impressed and even bought it to add to my horror collection.
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