Cannibal Holocaust

[feral cat]

I see what your saying, im not here to defend vipco, but I do prefer to pay £4.99 rather than 19.95 because of extras, plus you have to remember these are old movies and they would have to remaster them at a substantial cost to get the digital quality anamorphic versions you are thinking of!
Its like this I bought Iron Monkey(I like kung fu classics as well as horror classics) for 4.99, now because he corrographed the matrix a version is out with features etc £19.99! I dont mind features but there not worth quadroupling the price!!!

feral cat

[zwoti]

i can't complain over the price, yet somehow they did manage to get their hands on anchor bay's city of the living dead (including the extras). so why this one and not the others? personally i prefer a complete version of the film so if it means paying more then i will.

yuen woo ping is a genius, i hope you are talking about the donnie yen version as he is brilliant. i prefer heroic bloodshed but martial arts is close behind.

[feral cat]

yeah I love heroic blood shed too, to be hounest im just a b-movie/cult movie fan anything from any genre or country thats interesting! What im trying to point out is the bbfc makes cuts not video companys (with the exception of blockbuster video), these are obscure low budget movies and the full version is best! except with cannibal holocaust where they have no choice but to cuts and certain child abuse and rape in movies must be cut from movies although im not for censorship there can be times when a movie production has gone too far! vipco is liscensing versions like prism and medusa do, its not like there warner brothers!
I love £4.99 classics as thats how you discover the stuff that no one else has seen! also to replace my old vhs collection cost is an issue as its going to cost thousands of pounds even at budget prices!

Ps. also alot of the footage in cannibal holocust is like 8 or 16 millemeter theres only so much they can do to improve that anyway! Plus the film is not cut that badly considering all that footage of executions in the middle is real!!!!!

Feral cat

if your into your hong kong stuff I recomend tsui harks "the blade" if you have not yet seen it!

[zwoti]

Originally posted by feral cat
if your into your hong kong stuff I recomend tsui harks "the blade" if you have not yet seen it!

good film, chiu man chuk is a kick-ass fighter.

[bwind22]

I was out at Ameoba Records in L.A. last week and I was lucky enough to find Cannibal Holocaust completely uncut and uncensored on VHS. (Yes, it includes all of the live animal butchering scenes, which were, at times, almost too much to watch, especially the turtle, yuck!..) Which brings me to a question... Does anyone know exactly how really the footage actually is? I mean... that guy's dick getting cut off looked about as real as anything I've seen.


Today, my fellow horror buff buddy and I watched it for the first time. We were both in agreement that it is wihtout a doubt THE hardest core movie either one of us had ever seen and we watch tons of horror.

This movie is so disturbing that only a handful of diehard horror fans will find it 'entertaining'. The general public should never see this movie in its uncut version.

[zwoti]

Originally posted by bwind22
Does anyone know exactly how really the footage actually is? I mean... that guy's dick getting cut off looked about as real as anything I've seen.

the animal footage is real, the human footage isn't.

Originally posted by bwind22
Today, my fellow horror buff buddy and I watched it for the first time. We were both in agreement that it is wihtout a doubt THE hardest core movie either one of us had ever seen

try some japanese.

[settdid]

As a matter of fact I own this film of DVD and VHS. I actually also have interviews with Rggero Deodato, the director of the film. I would say that yes it is for sure one of the most graphicaly violent films I have ever seen. And i am posative my versions are totaly uncut. I love this movie...not for the gore...but for the creativity and effort that went into it. I also own Deodato's first cannibal film known as Jungle Holocaust. Similar story...not as violent...over all, not as good. But still a good cannibal film. Anyway. It is true that these films are difficult to come by. keep checking ebay, because I have two coppies of the film on DVD and i plan to put one up on ebay soon. I will put a reminder post on horror.com when I do this...just in case any of you are interested.

If anyone has any questions about this movie...ask me...I have seen it a few times now and consider myself to be a student of Deodato's work.

[Tumper]

I had a copy of this film in the late eighties...A true classic. It is without doubt one of the most violent western horrors ever made. The central idea of the plot, and the way it developed into the cannibals themselves fleeing from exploitation was genuis, as good as anything Romero or Argento could come up with.

I think it was issues of genuine animal cruelty, and child exploitation that led to the censors reaction to it in the UK. Films have included documentary footage of such things, and passed the uk censor, but never for purely entertainment value.

Although they are two entirely different films, I would rank Holocaust alongside The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue, as being well thought out, well developed, and well executed rollercoaster rides.

...and that bit when they took doggie bags...now that was just genuis.

[jay o2 waster]

I want this movie also

[feral cat]

The human execution newsreel footage in the middle is real!!!!

...but the film itself is just well done and so it ran into sensors who could not be sure if it was real!

... this is a powerfull movie!!!!