How did you come across this movie ?
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SlickySlixta — 12 years ago(December 11, 2013 02:57 PM)
Around 2006 I was becoming very interested in 70's cult/exploitation films. I stumbled across an article that detailed this movie and how graphic and shocking it was. Naturally, there was some elaboration on the animal killings which made me hesitant about ever seeing it. Anyway, In 2007 I saw that it was on sale at JB HI-FI and it reminded me about the article I read the previous year. I eventually bought it after mustering up the courage to take it up to the counter.
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icaptainchaos — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 09:24 AM)
Managed to "find" it on 'not totally legal' VHS at a car boot sale back in the day when my whole life as a late teenager revolved around getting anything that was frowned upon.
It was a crap copy & I didn't get it again until I found it released on DVD, so I bought it, along with "Last House on the Left" and "I Spit On Your Grave".
Ahhhh - those were the days!
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Kejabe — 11 years ago(September 15, 2014 06:48 AM)
I remember seeing the box at Jill's Laundromat back in the 80's when every store in town was stocking up on VHS. Laundromats, bait shops every store/shop that had room seemed like they were renting tapes. Jill's was the only place in town that carried more extreme stuff (always in a separate room) like Faces of Death, Caligula, etc. but they wouldn't rent it to us because "the sticker on the box says you must be 18 to rent" and we were like 13-14 years old.
I kind of forgot about until the internet came into existence. By then I had heard enough about it to not want to see it until, finally, last Saturday night I watched it. -
Countryboy2014 — 11 years ago(September 21, 2014 10:00 AM)
I was watching some youtube videos at school and This was a top 5 on gore deaths in cinema.
I forgot the name of the video so I wasn't able to find the name of the movie for a long time.
Later I was watching Hostel part II and in the bonus features Eli Roth mentioned the movie and then I looked it up and sure enough, it contained the clip I saw.
What made me watch it was to see how it was set up.
I bought the movie, but to this day I cannot watch the whole movie in one piece. -
DeadandBuried81 — 11 years ago(September 23, 2014 07:23 PM)
I remember back in the myspace days, people would argue about "most" disturbing. Someone uploaded it into 12 parts on youtube (back in 2006?) Which got taken down.
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curious_chaos — 10 years ago(October 01, 2015 06:31 PM)
I first heard about this movie when I was a kid; I was fully aware of the negative reputation it carries. I was an odd child; obsessed with reading about movies and dark, morbid content from an early age
I remember the imagery of the gal who was "impaled" and how the filmmakers were prosecuted for it. I didn't really think too much about it for the next few years, but I never forgot about it. I kind of had no desire to see it, thanks to the NEGATIVE CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA I had come across reading about it.
Many years went by, and I started watching True Cinema (not stuff from this techno superhero disasterous crap era of Film History we seem to have slumped into). My tastes matured, and my eyes were opened, if you will. A couple years ago I was shopping for DVDs at my favorite little movie store, and after chatting with an employee, he loaned me his personal copy of Cannibal Holocaust that he'd made a major effort to actually purchase (Is it still unavailable and difficult to get ahold of? Not sure)
Apprehensively, I watched the movie. WOW what an experience that was! To be shocked by how truly different and profound it was. Not anything like the cheap, exploitative and disgusting movie it had been made out to be. I really liked it. Gorgeous music! It's difficult to enjoy, especially with the animal cruelty
Some of the acting sucked too. But regardless. Shocking, masterful, meaningful, and made in an era where that type of freedom of film was still filmable. Sigh. It's been a few years now. I need to rewatch it again, definitely worthy of a 2nd view. -
ElectricWarlock — 10 years ago(November 22, 2015 07:30 AM)
I kept seeing it on lists of the most shocking/violent/controversial horror films of all time, so then I decided to read about it to see what all the fuss was about. I read about all the animal killings, how Ruggero Deodato was put on trial, how it was perhaps the first found footage movie, etc. Then I decided I absolutely must see the movie so a couple years later I asked for it on DVD as a birthday present, got it, and watched it. It became one of my favorites afterwards.
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robka — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 08:44 AM)
I knew about it in the 80's, but didn't see it until year 2000 before a Norwegian company released a remastered version on DVD. It was NTSC and not PAL, because it was banned here.
It didn't take long until almost any banned movie ever was unbanned in Norway. CB, Salo 100 days of sodom and loads of others was then sold at mainstream movies stores.
I bought it again on Blu-Ray today. -
fastdontlie — 9 years ago(July 12, 2016 11:24 PM)
I was in Elementary year 2001 my classmate told me a summary about it but didn't really watch the actual movie then forgot about until my highschool graduation year 2005 when I'm browsing pirated movies in some random market then saw the movie and watch it on Christmas while eating my favorite spaghetti.
Love the movie but didn't manage to finish my plate full of spaghetti. lol
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CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 08:31 AM)
A combination of it having a reputation of being a video nasty and I believe may have been banned in the UK at the time and being in film school where we could get hold of pretty much anything film related. I watched it because the found footage style of movie was not really around at the time and would not become popular until The Blair Witch was released.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script -Alfred Hitchcock