How did you come across this movie ?

Pantera documentary. The band is walking through the woods somewhere, and they hear crazy nature sounds, and Philip Anselmo says, "Cannibal Holocaust!" So, I looked it up.
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I was watching a doc on John Wayne Gacy and it stated he went to "The Music Box" (an old movie house )in Chicago Ill. I went to their web site and a TWEET said"..often cited but harder to watch, Cannibal Holocaust...". I cut and pasted and Googled and found it on Youtube. The serendipity... John Wayne Gacy, The Music Box and "Cannibal Holocaust."

I used to tape trade in the 90s and knew it was a banned video nasty

After having had copies seized by customs several times, i finally got one through

Thanks to my dad I've been a life long horror fan. I kinda feel like a hipster d-bag saying this, but in college I moved away from mainstream horror and discovered the world of exploitation and grindhouse. One I came across the title and the phrases "the most disturbing movie ever" and "banned in 67 countries." How was I to resist. I remember the first time I watched it I couldn't look away and was so frankly frozen in shock that I let the the credits roll and stared at a blank screen for a full 10 minutes. Then I spent a considerable amount of time on google trying to convince myself that it wasn't in fact real. No movie has shocked me as much since and I don't think any ever will. I even laughed at the Human Centipedes claim to be the most disturbing movie of all time. those who think that's disturbing are so naive haha I love this movie but am always very careful to recommend or even mention it. It's certainly not for your average person.

I first heard about this on an IMDB forum around 2004. I just watched the uncut version for free on the internet. Total waste of 90 minutes.

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Around 2006 I was becoming very interested in 70's cult/exploitation films. I stumbled across an article that detailed this movie and how graphic and shocking it was. Naturally, there was some elaboration on the animal killings which made me hesitant about ever seeing it. Anyway, In 2007 I saw that it was on sale at JB HI-FI and it reminded me about the article I read the previous year. I eventually bought it after mustering up the courage to take it up to the counter.

I think sheer curiosity made me want to watch it.

I remember seeing the box at Jill's Laundromat back in the 80's when every store in town was stocking up on VHS. Laundromats, bait shops every store/shop that had room seemed like they were renting tapes. Jill's was the only place in town that carried more extreme stuff (always in a separate room) like Faces of Death, Caligula, etc. but they wouldn't rent it to us because "the sticker on the box says you must be 18 to rent" and we were like 13-14 years old.

I kind of forgot about until the internet came into existence. By then I had heard enough about it to not want to see it until, finally, last Saturday night I watched it.

I was watching some youtube videos at school and This was a top 5 on gore deaths in cinema.
I forgot the name of the video so I wasn't able to find the name of the movie for a long time.
Later I was watching Hostel part II and in the bonus features Eli Roth mentioned the movie and then I looked it up and sure enough, it contained the clip I saw.
What made me watch it was to see how it was set up.
I bought the movie, but to this day I cannot watch the whole movie in one piece.