Has anybody actually watched this movie? I watched it last night and it is probably the most gruesome "fictional" movie I've ever seen. Apparently it is also being remade for a 2009 release. Not sure if they can really top the original since this thing goes places that would definitely get it into trouble in this day and age, and CGI just wouldn't cut it.
Lots of stuff to talk about if anybody wanted too. This thing is doing the whole Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Land of the Dead thing way back in 1980. Also, movie has an interesting take on itself and the very audience watching it that's close to ingenious. It pretty much is also making commentary on today's explosion of reality tv, before such a thing even existed.
Anyway - if you can stomach it, definitely a cult movie that will leave you thinking for a day or two.
I watched 'Spit/Grave' years ago and was not all that impressed. Pretty much a standard revenge film that goes way, way, way over the top.
This, on the other hand, really has an underlying commentary on culture - specifically western culture - even though most of the film actually takes place in the bush. As much as I want to abhor it for the obviously real animal brutality in it - the thing as a whole is really amazing for a zero-budget italian horror.
Everyone gives Romero credit for the themes underneath his gorefests, but I really think this one's got him beat. The very act of watching this movie makes the viewer not just a witness to the brutality, but a very active participant - the main character at one point pretty much tells the audience that, were it not for their act of sitting there and watching the film, it never would have been made.
Another interesting aspect is that whilst most filmmakers that dwell on violence, the Tarantinos, the Rob Zombie's, etc. Tend to think it's funny to make people squirm and will not hesitate to dismiss any of their imagined depravity as 'only a movie' - the underlying core of Cannibal Holocaust pretty much is saying - 'yeah, we filmmakers are a depraved bunch and are ashamed and probably going to hell - but you should be too for sitting here watching it because there's really nothing at all funny about any of this.'
I didn't like Requiem for a dream that much, it was kinda depressing for the sake of depressing. this may be a bit more guttural. here's to hoping fingers crossed
*****Possible spoilers even though there isn't much of a plot**********
Just watched it and the turtle, monkey and muskrat or whatever it was were pretty over the top. But the people killing I couldn't get into. Maybe it was the music or the fact that right when something crazy was gonna happen they would cut away but i dunno it just didn't do it for me. It seemed to me half the time they were just spreading red corn syrup around a person with rocks. But yeah the turtle, muskrat and monkey were pretty bad, especially the little extra snap the turtle's head does after it's no longer attached o and it's foot.
