Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Summary: New York anthropologist Harold Monroe heads an expedition into the area of the Brazilian jungle in search of a missing filmmaker and his crew who went to make a documentary about cannibal tribes. While in his search, he discovers the crew’s dead bodies and several canisters of film. Back in New York, he and the producers are shocked to see that it shows Yates and the crew torturing, raping and killing the tribe’s people, in order to get authentic ‘cannibal’ footage. This is their story.           Overall: I think the only thing that may diminish the “squeamish” factor for you would depend on how many of these films you have seen. Frankly the more you watch films such as “Hostel” and the like, the violence towards humans might not shock you that much in 2008 and forward. You’ve sorta seen this stuff before. Now, you can’t take away that you’re watching real human beings kill real animals, for the sole point of catching this on camera. Frankly, we all understand that animals are killed for our food and we accept that. But to take animals on camera for the sole point of making a film, that’s just wrong on all levels. And we’re not talking just like 1 animal, 1 quick scene,. There’s upwards of 5 instances of this and long drawn-out shots too.           Watching this movie is only for those looking to see history made so that they can quickly forget about what they witnessed. Think about it. This film features the following: male and female genital mutation, rape, forced abortion (in all its gory detail), amputations, bodies being cut up and then eaten, etc. It’s not a pretty movie but one designed to horrify you. And it will. N Take the rape scene for instance….guy raping a woman both physically and then with a giant stone instrument. And it’s all for the sake of the director trying to point out, in his own words, how disgusted he was at 1970’s news media focusing on negatives all the time. Oh yeah? Well you just killed animal and even proposed strangers on your movie set to have sex with each other, for the sole purpose of “realism.”           Anyway, I did find it fascinating that “Blair Witch” did same thing this film did...albeit 25+ years later…having someone “recover” the footage and then air it. But that at least was the better, more interesting film. Skip this!           Comparison: Cannibal Ferox meets Emmanuelle in Prison

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