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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.
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.
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