How did you come across this movie ?

I remember back in the myspace days, people would argue about "most" disturbing. Someone uploaded it into 12 parts on youtube (back in 2006?) Which got taken down.



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I watched it one Saturday morning as a kid. They showed it after an episode of "Hong Kong Phooey" and an episode of "H. R. Puffenstuf".

Cinema Snob and then a review of Italian horror.

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I first heard about this movie when I was a kid; I was fully aware of the negative reputation it carries. I was an odd child; obsessed with reading about movies and dark, morbid content from an early age :) I remember the imagery of the gal who was "impaled" and how the filmmakers were prosecuted for it. I didn't really think too much about it for the next few years, but I never forgot about it. I kind of had no desire to see it, thanks to the NEGATIVE CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA I had come across reading about it.

Many years went by, and I started watching True Cinema (not stuff from this techno superhero disasterous crap era of Film History we seem to have slumped into). My tastes matured, and my eyes were opened, if you will. A couple years ago I was shopping for DVDs at my favorite little movie store, and after chatting with an employee, he loaned me his personal copy of Cannibal Holocaust that he'd made a major effort to actually purchase (Is it still unavailable and difficult to get ahold of? Not sure)

Apprehensively, I watched the movie. WOW what an experience that was! To be shocked by how truly different and profound it was. Not anything like the cheap, exploitative and disgusting movie it had been made out to be. I really liked it. Gorgeous music! It's difficult to enjoy, especially with the animal cruelty :( Some of the acting sucked too. But regardless. Shocking, masterful, meaningful, and made in an era where that type of freedom of film was still filmable. Sigh. It's been a few years now. I need to rewatch it again, definitely worthy of a 2nd view.

I kept seeing it on lists of the most shocking/violent/controversial horror films of all time, so then I decided to read about it to see what all the fuss was about. I read about all the animal killings, how Ruggero Deodato was put on trial, how it was perhaps the first found footage movie, etc. Then I decided I absolutely must see the movie so a couple years later I asked for it on DVD as a birthday present, got it, and watched it. It became one of my favorites afterwards.

i was talking with a buddy of mine, and he said that this was one of the craziest films he had ever saw.


"Mother, tell your children not to walk my way..."

I knew about it in the 80's, but didn't see it until year 2000 before a Norwegian company released a remastered version on DVD. It was NTSC and not PAL, because it was banned here.

It didn't take long until almost any banned movie ever was unbanned in Norway. CB, Salo 100 days of sodom and loads of others was then sold at mainstream movies stores.

I bought it again on Blu-Ray today.

I was in Elementary year 2001 my classmate told me a summary about it but didn't really watch the actual movie then forgot about until my highschool graduation year 2005 when I'm browsing pirated movies in some random market then saw the movie and watch it on Christmas while eating my favorite spaghetti.

Love the movie but didn't manage to finish my plate full of spaghetti. lol

"Let them Hate as long as they Fear"