So after last week's post, a couple guys, I guess trying to flex how hardcore they are, pointed out to me that only a couple scenes in Faces of Death were real, which I thought I made clear in my review. Maybe they were disappointed because they only watch real snuff films. What's clear is they are nobody's fools and they don't mind picking an argument with a fictitious character to prove it.
To correct my oversight, I assure you that the movie I'm reviewing this week is 100 percent fake, except for all the butchering of live animals. Don't get too comfortable, though. Legend has it the director had to appear in court to prove no one was actually murdered.
This week's Thursday Thriller is Cannibal Holocaust.
The plot of this 1980 Ruggero Deodato film concerns Professor Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman), who is on a mission to find Alan Yates (Gabriel Yorke) and his friends, a group of young filmmakers who disappeared on a trip to make a documentary about the indigenous people of an Amazon region called the Green Inferno. Yes, Eli Roth made a cannibal movie in 2013 called The Green Inferno, and that is neither a coincidence nor especially important to know right now.
What is important to know is that Monroe only comes back to civilization with the film the kids shot, and boy did they bring back some brutal footage. There's rape, arson, impalement, turtle mutilation, and here's the twist, the natives aren't the perpetrators. It seems young Yates is into capturing the most extreme footage possible, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. In fact, the whole crew descends to committing the vilest atrocities to stage their footage of how the so-called "savages" live. Here's the even sicker part: some executives think there might be a market for such a thing.
Cannibal Holocaust is a provocative, puke-tastic experience that challenges viewers to think about how far they're willing to go for their own thrills and chills, as well as what it means to be civilized. Moreover, it demonstrates that low-budget filmmakers were doing "found footage" roughly two decades before The Blair Witch Project came out, and it was a lot more disturbing.
Cannibal Holocaust streams on Shudder and YouTube.
What is important to know is that Monroe only comes back to civilization with the film the kids shot, and boy did they bring back some brutal footage. There's rape, arson, impalement, turtle mutilation, and here's the twist, the natives aren't the perpetrators. It seems young Yates is into capturing the most extreme footage possible, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. In fact, the whole crew descends to committing the vilest atrocities to stage their footage of how the so-called "savages" live. Here's the even sicker part: some executives think there might be a market for such a thing.
Cannibal Holocaust is a provocative, puke-tastic experience that challenges viewers to think about how far they're willing to go for their own thrills and chills, as well as what it means to be civilized. Moreover, it demonstrates that low-budget filmmakers were doing "found footage" roughly two decades before The Blair Witch Project came out, and it was a lot more disturbing.
Cannibal Holocaust streams on Shudder and YouTube.
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