Jacob R. Crosby-English
Blair Witch Project came out in 1999 as Paranormal Activity did in 2007 (originally 2005), Cannibal Holocaust was the beginning of found footage!More than just shaky cameras and a blessing of no digital effects, Cannibal Holocaust is controversial, practical and risqué as a found footage film should be. The journey of who the real Cannibals are, makes you consider the definition of Cannibal once more. Considering how Cannibals can be hungry enough even for another human being to be degraded and belittled of a stone-age culture. With those film cameras in grip like a pistol, it adds more the journey of these "lost Americans" and their intentions of recording footage as a trophy and eradication more than an observation of stone-age cultures.Clearly this was a big deal in 1980 for how realistic it looks and even makes CGI in today's technological standards look like a couple of steps behind! But once you've seen it again it is obvious with the practical effects and if you research the controversy that surrounded this film. They literally had to take this film to court! Blair Witch Project was good, but jittery and shaky if the lack of dialogue makes you impatient. Paranormal Activity set the digital standard of found footage, however was shattered in my belief over the 2007 ending over the 2005 ending.Cannibal Holocaust it's pacy, it's edgy and it makes you cringe and clinch no other found footage film's done. Especially when it comes to controversy, A Serbian Film counter-argued in 2011 and succeeded.
Uatu the movie watcher
The message of this movie is suppose to be anti-imperialist, claiming that civilized western society is no better than cannibals. Whilst western civilization has done plenty of evil stuff in the name of science centuries ago, to claim that we are no better than cannibals is a ridiculous statement fuelled only by white guilt. There are numerous things wrong with this idea: First of all: The movie implies that 4 psychopathic film students are representative of the white western race and western science. If he had said that about any other race he would have been branded a racist.Secondly: The movie also implies that this is how anthropology and nature documentaries are done.....I assure you, it isn't.And Thirdly: The tribesmen were already practicing ritual sacrifices, rape and cannibalism before the documentary makers came along.The director's message also states that the west unethically exploits primitive cultures and nature for the sake of sensationalism. Yet ironically the only one who unethically exploited living beings for the sake of sensationalism was the director himself when he ordered the slaughter of numerous exotic animals on camera in gruesome ways. They: stabbed a baby Coati raccoon(which was wrongly identified as a muskrat in the movie)in the face, dissected a large river turtle, decapitated a Boa constrictor, chopped the face off a squirrel monkey, squashed a tarantula to death and kicked and shot a pig in the face at point blank range.I give this movie a 5/10. Whilst the realism is certainly astonishing. The message of this movie combined with the animal cruelty it displays are the work of a morally bankrupt mind and shouldn't be condoned. Ruggero Deodato set out to prove something about western civilization but all he ended up proving is that he himself is an uncivilized barbarian.
jacobjohntaylor1
This movie is awful. The acting is awful. The story line is awful. It is not scary it just really gross. I like a lot gross horror movie. I like The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974) And I think this is feat to gross do not see it. I do not know why this got 6. I give it a 2. I like to be scared to do not like to be grossed out. There most be people who like being grossed out. The Texas chain saw massacre was violent but it the original The Texas chain saw massacre was scary. This not scary. If you want to see something scary see The green inferno.
Smoreni Zmaj
For his work on the film, the director was arrested by Italian authorities on suspicion of murder charges and faced life in prison, following its 1980 Milan premiere. He endured a trial when Italian authorities were unconvinced that the footage was indeed staged. Deodato lost the original trial, and all prints were to be destroyed, but he managed to have the ruling overturned in the early '80s when the actors finally appeared on TV to prove otherwise.Some five years passed before the film saw release in Deodato's home country. This movie was banned for twenty years in many countries.Only for fans of disgusting footage...
AD
