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Aurum Film Encyclopedia review mentions the piranha sequence

posted 10 years ago by white-zombie
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Has anyone here read the Aurum Film Encyclopedia?

The review of Cannibal Holocaust featured within clearly mentions the piranha scene which was apparently never actually filmed.

Has anyone else read this, and if so, what do you make of it? It makes me wonder whether the reviewer actually watched the film?
I remember reading another Horror Film book (this in fact ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eShSlWoBL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) by Nigel Andrews in which a scene from The Last House on the Left is mentioned, in which someone is laid on a table and has their arm chopped off and their innards plucked out, but this scene clearly never featured in the film.

I am somewhat dubious about the reviewer having actually seen the film, in these cases.

Mischief.Mayhem.Me.

[–] Countryboy2014 10 years ago

Parts were filmed, but since the underwater cameras weren't working, it was ultimately scrapped. But stills of the scene exist.

[–] jinx_malone 10 years ago

I love that book, it was my bible in high school. I carried it everywhere. It's pretty beat up now, but anyhow...a lot of the reviewers are talking out their ass in that book, which didn't stop me from seeing pretty much everything I could. I consider it an accomplishment to have seen about 80% of the films in there!

As for the piranha scene, the user who mentions that the camera malfunctioned is correct. There are stills floating around of (I think) Perry Pirkanen tied to a tree branch with piranha dangling from his body, but that's all I've ever seen.

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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch

[–] jinx_malone 10 years ago

The other book isn't talking about Last House on the Left, btw. The scene you're describing is from a film called Last House on Dead End Street, directed by Roger Watkins.

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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch

[–] white-zombie 10 years ago

The other book isn't talking about Last House on the Left, btw. The scene you're describing is from a film called Last House on Dead End Street, directed by Roger Watkins.

Outstanding, thank you very much for the reply :)

I read both of these books to death :)

I did watch The Last House on Dead End street, I don't remember that particular scene, just that the end is about 15 minutes worth of butchering a woman in a bed, if I am thinking of the right scene.

Given all of the bad press, I thought the end of The Last House on the Left was pretty take, given that there's a power tool and chasing involved!
Likewise Driller Killer.

Mischief.Mayhem.Me.