whats the controversy?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Cannibal Holocaust
onetwobomb69 — 11 years ago(October 07, 2014 03:38 PM)
i bought this online after hearing all the hype. the animal deaths are nothing you cant see on national geographic or animal planet, and the rape scenes were lame and hardly disturbing to watch. so whats the big deal about this movie?
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Illyngophobia — 11 years ago(October 17, 2014 11:53 AM)
It gained its controversy in a few things. The very real and raw animal cruelty aside; many people believed that the actors died making this and Deodato was trying to distribute a snuff film.
To make the film look more convincing, he had the actors sign a contract that they would disappear for a yearbut he would, in turn, have to bring them into court to prove that they were alive and well and the movie was, well a movie. To avoid jail time, he also had to prove that the impalement scene was fakewhich was pretty damn convincing to audiences.
I'm not sure if this contributed to the film's controversy at the time; but it was notorious for using real cadavers (something other films did too, but this was one of the firsts) and the execution footage we see in the film was real firing squad footage from Nigeria.
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Bobby Briggs Briganza — 11 years ago(October 18, 2014 03:37 AM)
Well, for one:
Many people believe there is a significant difference between animals killing each other in the wild and humans killing animals expressly for the purpose of a commercial film.
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theromanempire-1 — 11 years ago(November 13, 2014 07:02 AM)
LOL ?
34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NO NATEO WILD TO SHOW ANIMAL CRUELTY
34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NOT INTERNET
34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NO DVD
34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NOT EVEN A VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM
34 YEARS AGO IN MY COUNTRY THERE WERE ONLY 2 TV CHANELS BLACK AND WHITE WHICH NEVER SHOWED MOVIES LIKE THIS ONE AND AT 12 MIDNIGHT THEY ENDED THE BROADCAST.
34 YEARS AGO WE WERE LISTENING TO VINYL RECORDS AND HAMMER DRACULA FILMS WERE THE SCARRIEST MOVIES THE NATIONAL TELEVISION WAS SHOWING.
DID U EVEN BORN 34 YEARS AGO ?
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gfe-6 — 11 years ago(February 07, 2015 01:14 PM)
Animal deaths are not the same as animal killings. They don't kill animals purposely for documentary shows on national geographic or animal planet. This movie showed humans killing real animals for shock purposes including cutting a monkey's head in two and they shot that twice with two monkeys.
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PurpleLemonadeDinosaur — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 11:03 PM)
The title, animal cruelty, rape, and a woman being impaled on a pole through the mouth. And yeah, I find it funny you were expecting more from an exploitative film pretty much desensitizing violence and rape. I don't think we needed more or "better" rape scenes.
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Catman_Scrothers — 10 years ago(February 13, 2016 02:36 PM)
Yeah I agree with you, b/c if the OP said the road to hell footage looked fake, then he's in for some revelations, like you know that was real footage, and the fact that I've seen things on live leak and can't really differentiate the difference between those accidents and what happened in this movie, tells me this movie did a pretty damn good job with the effects, especially the fact that they were using real cadavers and pig intestines and other organs, yeah your not going to get anymore realistic than this. Disturbing, oh hell yeah this is a goofy ass movie, but realistic? No, no no no.
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Decemberklar — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 11:38 AM)
The biggest controversy, in my honest opinion, is how we were displayed more grotesque than the uncivilized tribe. I love this movie because I love when the "bad guys" don't even come off as bad guys, hell the first time I watched this movie I started actually cheering for the Tribes. It's one of those interesting documentations of watching "civilized" mankind acting like absolute primitives and getting exactly what they deserve.
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mr_marius — 9 years ago(January 12, 2017 06:07 AM)
dude the rape scenes are hard as beep, not stylized to be made cinematic or overly gory for the films sake, its just these men straight raping women. And btw you didn't find anything disturbing about the filmmakers beep in a hut while the crew is burning people alive?
Im 30 years old and didn't see this until last year, I've been a horror buff for 15 years but stayed away from this due to the dvd not being available everywhere and from what I heard it was a tough sit.
I was blown away by what they got away with in this movie, there is no way this can be remade, and green inferno kind of proved that.
Seriously man if not at least 2 scenes in this movie doesn't make you question why you are watching this for entertainment then there is something off about you.
For me the worst scenes was the rock rape that the real tribes women refused to do, the killing of the rat, turtle and pig and the beep while burning the villagers.
That said I absolutely adore the movie, the theme I listen to once a week, im watching it at work right now. But this is what true horror is, its in broad daylight naked for all to see, brutal, real effects, no jump scares or score to tell you when to be scared. Try putting yourself in these people shoes, or even the actors shoes and imagine being part of the crew filming this This is horror In its truest form.. movie wise