whats the controversy?

Yes, the animal killing and rape were part of it, but it's the fact that everything looked real for its time. It still kinda does look real. I figured I would sum it up.

It gained its controversy in a few things. The very real and raw animal cruelty aside; many people believed that the actors died making this and Deodato was trying to distribute a snuff film.

To make the film look more convincing, he had the actors sign a contract that they would disappear for a year--but he would, in turn, have to bring them into court to prove that they were alive and well and the movie was, well a movie. To avoid jail time, he also had to prove that the impalement scene was fake--which was pretty damn convincing to audiences.

I'm not sure if this contributed to the film's controversy at the time; but it was notorious for using real cadavers (something other films did too, but this was one of the firsts) and the execution footage we see in the film was real firing squad footage from Nigeria.


Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. -- Orson Welles

Well, for one:

Many people believe there is a significant difference between animals killing each other in the wild and humans killing animals expressly for the purpose of a commercial film.

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34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NO NATEO WILD TO SHOW ANIMAL CRUELTY

34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NOT INTERNET

34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NO DVD

34 YEARS AGO THERE WAS NOT EVEN A VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM

34 YEARS AGO IN MY COUNTRY THERE WERE ONLY 2 TV CHANELS BLACK AND WHITE WHICH NEVER SHOWED MOVIES LIKE THIS ONE AND AT 12 MIDNIGHT THEY ENDED THE BROADCAST.

34 YEARS AGO WE WERE LISTENING TO VINYL RECORDS AND HAMMER DRACULA FILMS WERE THE SCARRIEST MOVIES THE NATIONAL TELEVISION WAS SHOWING.

DID U EVEN BORN 34 YEARS AGO ?



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DON'T JUDGE A MOVIE BY...........TODAYS STANDARTS.

TODAY THIS MOVIE IS ALMOST A COMEDY // HORROR

BACK THEN IT WAS THE MOST SCARRIEST *beep* I EVER SAW TOGETHER WITH GEMS LIKE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, HALLOWEEN AND....FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Animal deaths are not the same as animal killings. They don't kill animals purposely for documentary shows on national geographic or animal planet. This movie showed humans killing real animals for shock purposes including cutting a monkey's head in two and they shot that twice with two monkeys.

The title, animal cruelty, rape, and a woman being impaled on a pole through the mouth. And yeah, I find it funny you were expecting more from an exploitative film pretty much desensitizing violence and rape. I don't think we needed more or "better" rape scenes.

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Have you ever seen real footage of people dying?

The biggest controversy, in my honest opinion, is how we were displayed more grotesque than the uncivilized tribe. I love this movie because I love when the "bad guys" don't even come off as bad guys, hell the first time I watched this movie I started actually cheering for the Tribes. It's one of those interesting documentations of watching "civilized" mankind acting like absolute primitives and getting exactly what they deserve.

The film writer knew exactly what the controversy would be just from the last line of the movie, "I wonder who the real cannibals are."