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Dukefrukem
02-11-2008, 08:08 PM
I wanted to bring this up because I watched it last night.... (again) to see if I can get through it. Nope. This film is atrocious. It's a poor excuse for gratuitous violence and shock factor while providing a not even timid story.

I've seen this film described as a masterpiece? How can this word be in the same senten- paragra-.... review as this film??? Has anyone enjoyed watching this film??
Raiders
02-11-2008, 08:19 PM
No, it is indeed trash. The word "masterpiece" comes from those who see the film as a knowing attempt to thrive off of audience "distancing" and tolerance for inhuman behavior and violence on the other side of the screen. In essence, that there would exist a document of such depravity, and that people would watch it, thus makes the audience and cameramen just as evil and corrupt as the characters on screen. Kind of like a Haneke film, only it's not since the filmmakers revel so much in their own debase impulses that they don't even give the audience a chance.

Eric Henderson does a good piece on the film:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=1848
Dukefrukem
02-11-2008, 08:21 PM
I can always count on Raiders. :)
D_Davis
02-11-2008, 09:32 PM
It's also really poorly made, just on a technical level. I really don't like this film, or any of the subsequent rip-offs.
Spun Lepton
02-11-2008, 09:46 PM
Hypocritical garbage that gained noteriety through its gruesome on-screen animal torture and death. The on-screen animal deaths weren't even necessary to the story, they were just there to shock and to fill time.

Features one of the stupidest closing lines ever. I'll spoiler tag it, just in case somebody cares ... :P

"I wonder who the REAL cannibals are!"

Uh, yeah, that would be the PEOPLE WHO EAT OTHER PEOPLE, Prof. Hawking.

Grade: F
number8
02-12-2008, 01:00 AM
Jungle Holocaust is better.
megladon8
02-12-2008, 03:18 AM
Is this the one with the infamous turtle death?

I get confused because there are so many bad horrors titled Cannibal _________ and _________ Holocaust.
Skitch
02-12-2008, 11:07 AM
I think so Meg...or wait...is that Cannibal Ferox? Either way, both Holocaust and Ferox are explotation trash...
Scar
02-12-2008, 02:18 PM
I've never had a desire to see this movie.
Spun Lepton
02-12-2008, 09:46 PM
I've never had a desire to see this movie.

You're not missing anything.
Skitch
02-12-2008, 11:35 PM
Which one had the worst on screen forced abortion I've ever seen? Anyone?
Sycophant
02-12-2008, 11:41 PM
Which one had the worst on screen forced abortion I've ever seen? Anyone?Don't know. What's the best?
krazed
02-13-2008, 06:53 AM
This movie's boring.
Boner M
02-13-2008, 11:13 AM
I would like to express my feelings toward this film by combining all the aforementioned responses into an almighty super-response. What that super-response would read/look like, I'll leave for you to imagine.
Skitch
02-13-2008, 12:54 PM
Don't know. What's the best?

:)

Good point. I should have said it was one of the worst things I've ever seen.
Dukefrukem
02-13-2008, 02:26 PM
Is this the one with the infamous turtle death?

I get confused because there are so many bad horrors titled Cannibal _________ and _________ Holocaust.

Yes it is. They also kill some kind of lizzard too.
D_Davis
02-13-2008, 06:58 PM
I want to see a movie that after which I can say, "that had the best abortion I've ever seen."