How did you come across this movie ?
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LaBlueEyes — 13 years ago(August 09, 2012 05:32 PM)
My mom rented it when I was about 7 or 8 and I walked in when she was watching it. I don't quite remember what I saw I just know it was horrible and my mom's insane reaction at me walking in really stuck with me. For years she wouldnt tell me the name if but eventually she did, and I was able to read about it and see bits on the internet. I just saw the entire movie for the first time a few weeks ago.
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WINKERLANd — 13 years ago(August 11, 2012 07:43 PM)
My story isn't that exciting. I had read about it on the web when i was doing a search of extreme horror films. Then i found it in a video store and bought it (the grindhouse releasing original deluxe edition print). And i watched it. It was amazing. Not many films moved me as much as that film. Top Ten.
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lmtopeka — 13 years ago(September 04, 2012 10:32 PM)
I first read about this movie in 1995 or so. I was a horror junkie and I wanted to see this movie so bad. Back then you couldn't just find a movie online and watch it and finally in about 1998 I found a dupe copy from a website on vhs and ordered it for 20 bucks. I loved it. I had never seen anything like it.
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NotAnUndercoverCop — 13 years ago(September 07, 2012 08:19 PM)
I was searching for zombie movies. I randomly came across this movie's plot synopsis on the web. It mentioned it featured a tribe of people who consume human flesh. So I downloaded it but never got around to watching it. Then about two weeks ago they talked about it on a podcast I like so I decided to watch it. I just finished watching it about 5 minutes ago, actually.
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putrescent_stench — 13 years ago(October 20, 2012 09:55 PM)
About six or seven years ago, I actually saw a presentation on this movie at a literature conference (Pennsylvania College English Association). The talk focused on the style of the movie, the simulated documentary feel. I don't remember much else other than wanting to see it because it looked more extreme than anything I had seen at that point. I asked the guy how to obtain a copy, and he was very evasive, but I persisted, and he referred me to Diabolik DVD. I don't know what he was afraid of, I was worried Diabolik was some sort of super underground black market thing.
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nathanschubach — 13 years ago(November 25, 2012 09:40 AM)
I did a Google Search for popular cult movies. After reading a lot of comedies and oddities in many of these lists, Cannibal Holocaust kept showing up as an alternative to other popular cult films, so I had to check it out.
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Tab132 — 13 years ago(November 28, 2012 03:29 PM)
I was about 11 years old, 2004ish lurking imdb forums for gory horror movies. i had already seen like the lucio fulci stuff and i wanted to see the lowest of the low. than i saw one post saying it was banned in 62 countries, and so i sought it out.
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Illyngophobia — 13 years ago(January 25, 2013 12:49 PM)
It's been so long that it's hard to really remember. I'm going to just assume I was lead to CH after spending time as a kid watching horror movies and finding clips from Faces of Death on a site someone who I shared a computer with torrented (or clips people just called Faces of Death, but had no real relation to the movies).
What made me watch it? I was a curious little one. I only got to about the 30 minute mark when I had to turn it off. It wasn't because I was shocked or upset, but I had younger cousins running around the house, so I couldn't risk having one of them run by and see an animal death. I forgot about finishing it until a few years later.
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TheLordofTheHarvest — 13 years ago(January 26, 2013 11:29 PM)
Growing up I was an always a horror fan from when I was 7 or 8 and just started watching the Universal films to when I was 11 or so when I got heavily into slashers. I heard about this film when I started High School, I heard it was really violent and controversial so I looked into it and got creeped out by the impaling scene, and I quit looking at it for a few years.
By my senior year I was over the hump of excessive gore and my interest in this re-grew. I watched the Cinema Snob's review and loved it, and finally decided to watch it. Then oddly enough, one of my best friends in high school that I played Football with shared an interest in this movie too. He never watched it but knew the name and seen some clips, so we gathered up our friends and all watched it after we graduated. It was hilarious, because all my tough guy football teammates got creeped out by this movie, except me. They all made it through the movie but some got sick over the animal killings and the gore (I got the uncut version thru Netflix.) They all despised me for an hour or so, then thanked me for getting this film as a few even liked it. This movie can still shock and awe after all this time, that's amazing.
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Illyngophobia — 13 years ago(January 27, 2013 06:40 AM)
I found the DVD at a FYE from my mall against all odds. I never expected to find it there (I have the deluxe version) or anywhere in my area for that matter. I remember going to the register to pay for it and the guy behind the counter made a comment on the movie, though I can't remember what he said verbatim. I think he said it's pretty messed up and that's about it.
It had been well over four or five years since I first saw some of it online to when I watched it Christmas Day of 2010(?). What a neat way to finish the holidays!
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ghostdog2041 — 12 years ago(May 26, 2013 09:48 PM)
Pantera documentary. The band is walking through the woods somewhere, and they hear crazy nature sounds, and Philip Anselmo says, "Cannibal Holocaust!" So, I looked it up.
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gage992112 — 12 years ago(May 29, 2013 12:02 PM)
I was watching a doc on John Wayne Gacy and it stated he went to "The Music Box" (an old movie house )in Chicago Ill. I went to their web site and a TWEET said"..often cited but harder to watch, Cannibal Holocaust". I cut and pasted and Googled and found it on Youtube. The serendipity John Wayne Gacy, The Music Box and "Cannibal Holocaust."
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IveBeenAMiner — 12 years ago(July 24, 2013 05:22 PM)
Thanks to my dad I've been a life long horror fan. I kinda feel like a hipster d-bag saying this, but in college I moved away from mainstream horror and discovered the world of exploitation and grindhouse. One I came across the title and the phrases "the most disturbing movie ever" and "banned in 67 countries." How was I to resist. I remember the first time I watched it I couldn't look away and was so frankly frozen in shock that I let the the credits roll and stared at a blank screen for a full 10 minutes. Then I spent a considerable amount of time on google trying to convince myself that it wasn't in fact real. No movie has shocked me as much since and I don't think any ever will. I even laughed at the Human Centipedes claim to be the most disturbing movie of all time. those who think that's disturbing are so naive haha I love this movie but am always very careful to recommend or even mention it. It's certainly not for your average person.
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Lilyette — 12 years ago(August 13, 2013 12:50 PM)
I first heard about this on an IMDB forum around 2004. I just watched the uncut version for free on the internet. Total waste of 90 minutes.