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  • #46
    Re-watched Cannibal Apocalypse and there's that something about it that makes it hard for me to get into it. I have no idea what it is too. Because it has gore, it has that Eurotrash quality I love, it has Giovanni Lombardo Radice, it has all the ingredients but it just doesn't work on me. I don't think age is a factor because I saw it when I was 17-18 as opposed to 12-14 when I got into Italo horror because when I was 20 I watched The Killer Is Still Among Us and loved the hell out of it. And around the same age I really loved Massacre in Dinosaur Valley.

    So I suppose it's one of those things where it just doesn't connect on some level and I can't accept it. Just like there's a celebrity you don't particularly like for any number of reasons but people love them.

    Right after watching Cannibal Apocalypse I popped in The Last Hunter and had a blast. My favorite Antonio Margheriti picture by far, and my favorite David Warbeck film aside from The Beyond and a supreme action guilty pleasure of mine.

    The one thing I really, really liked about Cannibal Apocalypse that doesn't get mentioned very much is the comic book framing. And it's very deliberately done from the shot of Radice checking himself out of the clinic and the scrolling text of the mental ward at the bottom of the screen, to where Radice holes up in that flea market and Saxon comes in to talk him down and there's a music box in the corner. That's some great framing that not a lot of pictures have used effectively even today.
    Alex K.
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    Last edited by Alex K.; 07-08-2012, 05:30 PM.
    "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

    Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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    • #47
      THE LAST HUNTER! Oh, boy. That movie's a corker. I love it :) I was hugely pleased to finally see it in 'scope via the Dark Sky DVD.
      'You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow'

      http://www.paul-a-j-lewis.com (my photography website)
      'All explaining in movies can be thrown out, I think': Elmore Leonard

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      • #48
        I too could never get into CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE as much as I would like to...so you are not alone ALEX...and also I cant understand why as I am a fan of both director and genre..something just didnt "click" with me on that one...and I have tried numerous times..

        That CH trivia on IMDB sounds bogus to me...I too used to be a bit of a euro horror fanboy and I never heard this story before...I heard the usual one about him being upset with too much violence on Italian daily news at the time....

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        • #49
          Re-watching one of Bruno Mattei's later day Cannibal flicks Cannibal World aka Cannibal Holocaust: The Beginning.

          This is the kind of flick that's perfect fodder for internet reviewers. It is wretched on every level. Shot on really low grade digital, and dubbed badly even by Bruno Mattei standards and just a mindfuck of badness. If you went out and got yourself the cheapest DV cam that could shoot 720P at Wal Mart and then got a bunch of confused locals in the Philippines to shoot a movie you'd probably equal or top this film.

          That bad.

          Makes Redneck Zombies look like Citizen Kane.

          I'm going to try to get through the rest of it later.
          Alex K.
          Senior Member
          Last edited by Alex K.; 07-10-2012, 01:33 AM.
          "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

          Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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          • #50
            Okay, finished watching it. On a technical level this is probably Mattei's worst film, a 13 year old could've achieved similar results.

            BUT it it still fun trash. Plenty of cheap gore and absurdity to make fun of. I haven't seen the other cannibal flick Mattei made, I believe it's more of a Predator rip off with the unfortunate return of animal snuff.
            "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

            Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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            • #51
              I thought it was a complete piece of shit, and yet, I'm happy to own it.

              I'm also going to change the title of this thread from 'eyetalian' to 'Italian' not out of political correctness but because it's a good thread and I don't want people not to find it because of the spelling.
              Rock! Shock! Pop!

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              • #52
                Originally posted by Alex K. View Post
                Okay, finished watching it. On a technical level this is probably Mattei's worst film, a 13 year old could've achieved similar results.

                BUT it it still fun trash. Plenty of cheap gore and absurdity to make fun of. I haven't seen the other cannibal flick Mattei made, I believe it's more of a Predator rip off with the unfortunate return of animal snuff.
                Good job you added in that last sentence ALEX....was just ready to reach for my guns and come looking for ya....You cant say anything bad about MATTEI and his movies...He is AMAZING...

                ALSO...not sure if it was this movie OR the other cannibal one he made around the same time...but if you freeze frame it on the stock helicopter footage you can see a famous person who 100% doesnt know he was in the movie I think!!!

                the best thing is MATTEI MUST have seen it...but just left it in anyway...how awesome s THAT???
                sukebanboy
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                Last edited by sukebanboy; 07-10-2012, 11:28 AM.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post

                  I'm also going to change the title of this thread from 'eyetalian' to 'Italian' not out of political correctness but because it's a good thread and I don't want people not to find it because of the spelling.
                  Sounds like more hipster liberal MSNBC Jesse Ventura-financed conspiracy to me.
                  "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

                  Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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                  • #54
                    Just came across this image on Facebook. Rad, and messed up.

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                    Rock! Shock! Pop!

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                    • #55
                      Those are models......but I think you got something very similar with the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST LIMITED EDITION TIN from a few years ago...

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by sukebanboy View Post
                        Those are models......but I think you got something very similar with the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST LIMITED EDITION TIN from a few years ago...
                        I want one! I'd put it right next to my Red Queen figurine from the old No Shame Miraglia release

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                        • #57
                          I see a new line of specialty birthday candles hitting the market soon...
                          I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by Andrew Monroe View Post
                            I see a new line of specialty birthday candles hitting the market soon...
                            Ha ha.....great idea...

                            I can see the faces of all the traumatized kids when the candles are lit and the cake is wheeled out.....:up:

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                            • #59
                              I am for the Cannibal Holocaust-themed birthday candles. It reminds me of when I was 6 or 7 and got Dracula on my birthday cake.

                              If only I was introduced to Italo Horror at a young age...
                              Alex K.
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                              Last edited by Alex K.; 07-11-2012, 08:28 PM.
                              "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

                              Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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                              • #60
                                a DRACULA cake VS a full-on graphic CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST cake....

                                We can all guess which one will lead to more years in therapy!!

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