The Cannibal Holocaust Thread!

[Paul L]

It is CUT by 15 seconds. The coatimundi is the ONLY animal cruelty bit is still CUT presumably due to cast (ie the natives) not eating said animal.

Thanks I'm aware of that. (I'm hanging on to my Grindhouse DVD for that very reason.)

[fatboyslim142]

I have the UHD. I need to rewatch this but I need to build up the courage (for the animal cruelty more than anything else) :D

It is CUT by 15 seconds. The coatimundi is the ONLY animal cruelty bit is still CUT presumably due to cast (ie the natives) not eating said animal.

[Paul L]

I believe the thing that gave away the gimmick to me was thinking no one could lose that much blood and still be alive.

There was a similar turning point for me when I finally plucked up the courage to watch the whole thing, but the whole set-up and the shot-on-video aesthetic (coupled with the fact that the dupe I watched was heavily degraded owing to being a nth generation copy) had me going for a while.

[Lorne Marshall]

I remember stumbling across Flower of Flesh and Blood for the first time, on the tail end of a videotape I acquired that contained a dupe of the Japanese LaserDisc of Argento's Tenebre, and I also thought it might be genuine "snuff."

I believe the thing that gave away the gimmick to me was thinking no one could lose that much blood and still be alive.

[Paul L]

Pretty tame by Hollywood elite standards, they probably do that stuff for real! Certainly tame compared to Charlie Sheen's collection if Denise Richards is to be believed (allegedly CP).

Speaking of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, there's a wacky interview with her by Stephen Baldwin on Baldwin's new podcast (ONE BAD MOVIE). Baldwin brings up the subject of Sheen's huge gun collection, which Sheen showed Baldwin once; Baldwin seems to be under the impression that Sheen owned the guns to lease them to film productions, for use on set. Richards shuts him down pretty quickly, suggesting they were for another purpose but cutting the conversation off. I'm not sure why. I know Sheen's guns were taken from him after his DV charge, and Sheen has gone on record as being anti-gun since, but the manner in which Richards sharply closes down the conversation makes me feel something else was "up" about those guns. (In all other respects in the podcast, Richards is quite open about her relationship with Sheen - so it's not simply the mention of her ex-husband that causes her to respond this way.)

[agent999]

I wonder what they'd think of Emannuelle in America or Goodbye Uncle Tom?

Pretty tame by Hollywood elite standards, they probably do that stuff for real! Certainly tame compared to Charlie Sheen's collection if Denise Richards is to be believed (allegedly CP).

Raimi used some spider stuff from The Beyond in Spiderman, but that may just have been Bob Murawski's doing. I see there was even a quick plug for his label in that awful Dr Strange sequel.

[Paul L]

I wonder what these guys, (Raimi, Hader, etc.) would think of Buio Omega, Salo, Don't Go in the House, etc. I guess this stuff is old hat to all of us so it's always funny to see cineaste reactions to these harsher genre films. I wonder what they'd think of Emannuelle in America or Goodbye Uncle Tom? Reminds me of Charlie Sheen calling the FBI after seeing Guinea Pig.

Encountering some of these films in the pre-Internet days - before it was possible to do a quick web search and assuage any concerns you might have about what you were watching - was pretty nerve-wracking sometimes, to be fair to Charlie Sheen :D I remember stumbling across Flower of Flesh and Blood for the first time, on the tail end of a videotape I acquired that contained a dupe of the Japanese LaserDisc of Argento's Tenebre, and I also thought it might be genuine "snuff." (This would be about the same time that Sheen watched it - early-90s, I think.) I also remember being pretty shocked by Buio Omega - but I also remember reading accounts in magazines at the time that claimed that real corpses had been mutilated during the production of the film.

[Scott]

I have the UHD. I need to rewatch this but I need to build up the courage (for the animal cruelty more than anything else) :D

I wonder what these guys, (Raimi, Hader, etc.) would think of Buio Omega, Salo, Don't Go in the House, etc. I guess this stuff is old hat to all of us so it's always funny to see cineaste reactions to these harsher genre films. I wonder what they'd think of Emannuelle in America or Goodbye Uncle Tom? Reminds me of Charlie Sheen calling the FBI after seeing Guinea Pig.

[Paul L]

I have the UHD. I need to rewatch this but I need to build up the courage (for the animal cruelty more than anything else) :D

[Scott]

[mjeon]

Ian: "Kinda makes you wonder who the real cannibals are!"

Excellent!

[Derrick King]

Grindhouse announced they are going to be releasing this on UHD.

[f.ramses]

Being the first to release Cannibal Holocaust cut on UHD should be a real feather in the cap of any label!

[Ian Jane]

Cover art.

[Randy G]

Anyone seen the Cursed Films episode on CH? Thought it was excellent, especially interesting to hear from the Italian cast members.