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Primitive savagery meets the brutality of the modern world in Ruggero Deodato s timeless slice of visceral horror - Cannibal Holocaust, a film so violent and depraved that the director was charged with killing his own cast! Anthropologist Harold Munroe is hellbound as he travels into the green inferno of South America s rainforest in an attempt to find a documentary crew lost months before.
Instead of survivors he discovers a world of cannibalistic excess beyond his wildest imaginings but when he returns home and screens the footage left behind by the eviscerated filmmakers, chaos erupts as the screen is filled with some of most disturbing images ever committed to celluloid. The ultimate video nasty is now presented as never experienced before -remastered in HD from original sources - and with the 1st ever Director s New Edit, it is still THE most controversial film ever made.
Special Features
- Original long version of the film (only 14 secs cut which has been seamless replaced by reaction shots)
- The director s own edit of the film reducing the on-screen violence to animals whilst preserving the jaw-dropping, gut-wrenching impact of the film
- Introduction to the film by director Ruggero Deodato - Ruggero Deodato on the Animal Edit
- Interview of Ruggero Deodato & Karl York & Francesca Cirdi
- Specially commissioned documentary by Cine Excess and critical analysis featuring critics such as Kim Newman, Pro Julian Petley etc.
- Easter Egg & Shameless Trailer Park
- 2.0 DTS HD Audio & Dolby 2.0 Original English Audio
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Format:Blu-ray
This is worth the hype in every way, a fantastic looking film for the 70's, very shocking and very controversial!! The violence towards the humans is all very realistic and its very hard to see what is not real, the animal cruelty is quite harsh and may offend people, the story is good, great surroundings and locations and the music score is awesome!! This is classic stuff, you must see the U.S uncut version as all U.K versions are very trimmed sorry!!
Format:Blu-ray
Firstly, hats off to Shameless for another great release. A lot of frustration has always surrounded distributors of this film - remember that ANY company would want to put this out in it's original UNCUT state, and whilst minor scene(s) have been tweaked this version is still cut. Why, in today's society do we have to have moral guardians at the BBFC who decide what we can and cannot watch is beyond me. Imagine the poor people who were prosecuted back in the 1980's for a version of this film that was cut by 6 minutes, only to find years later it's re-released with seconds cut!!! Quite amazing and ridiculous - probably that fact is more disturbing than the film itself. Absolute lunacy! Talk about nanny state!
Anyhow, enough of the moral highground. Cannibal Holocaust was and remains to this day one of the most distrubing films of all time. Period. It is a fascinating piece of cinema that touches emotions like no other film I've ever seen. From the haunting meoldies of Riz Ortalandi's musical score (which is fantastic throughout) to the final scenes of death, this film IS the mother of all movies. But what makes it so? Is it the violence? The animal creulty? The layered context of mixed messages about society? Well, maybe. The violence when it comes is pure exploitation on a upper class level. This is not glorified violence as in Umberto Lenzi's 'Cannibal Ferox', but more shocking, twisted and downright depraved.
There really is not much more to add, except watch it and prepare to be amazed. This is a film you will NOT forget.
Anyhow, enough of the moral highground. Cannibal Holocaust was and remains to this day one of the most distrubing films of all time. Period. It is a fascinating piece of cinema that touches emotions like no other film I've ever seen. From the haunting meoldies of Riz Ortalandi's musical score (which is fantastic throughout) to the final scenes of death, this film IS the mother of all movies. But what makes it so? Is it the violence? The animal creulty? The layered context of mixed messages about society? Well, maybe. The violence when it comes is pure exploitation on a upper class level. This is not glorified violence as in Umberto Lenzi's 'Cannibal Ferox', but more shocking, twisted and downright depraved.
There really is not much more to add, except watch it and prepare to be amazed. This is a film you will NOT forget.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Well I suppose any release of this will cause debate. To sum up the film, despite the very unfortunate animal cruelty (though in the real world far worse goes on with animals and no one bats an eyelid), this is an amazing, unique and genuinely horrifying film, which I highly recommend.
Regarding this release, as Arrow Video have done with their releases of cult films Shameless have really done this justice and presented it well. So far I have only seen the director-approved edited version. The restored quality is brilliant, it looks and sounds great, so much so that to make the found footage part which was supposed to look inferior they altered and messed up in the odd frame to make it look more convincing. Because they have done this the edits of the animal cruelty scenes look a lot less out of place and more natural than I feared they would. Though Ruggero's reason for doing this seems to be more 'it's just too much for the viewer' than 'it was wrong to do that to the animals', though it can't be undone I don't need to see the snuff footage so I am glad they managed to edit and obscure it convincingly...
Regarding the whole film that seems to be about all that was edited, so unless you are desperate enough to see the animal cruelty to complain about it still (in which case I am concerned for your health), I don't see what the big deal is...
The extras and interviews are really good too, some amusing comments from Ruggero (particularly regarding Robert Kerman).
So overall a version of this masterpiece I highly recommend others to buy
Regarding this release, as Arrow Video have done with their releases of cult films Shameless have really done this justice and presented it well. So far I have only seen the director-approved edited version. The restored quality is brilliant, it looks and sounds great, so much so that to make the found footage part which was supposed to look inferior they altered and messed up in the odd frame to make it look more convincing. Because they have done this the edits of the animal cruelty scenes look a lot less out of place and more natural than I feared they would. Though Ruggero's reason for doing this seems to be more 'it's just too much for the viewer' than 'it was wrong to do that to the animals', though it can't be undone I don't need to see the snuff footage so I am glad they managed to edit and obscure it convincingly...
Regarding the whole film that seems to be about all that was edited, so unless you are desperate enough to see the animal cruelty to complain about it still (in which case I am concerned for your health), I don't see what the big deal is...
The extras and interviews are really good too, some amusing comments from Ruggero (particularly regarding Robert Kerman).
So overall a version of this masterpiece I highly recommend others to buy
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Base entertainment for those with a taste for vomit..
Oh dear, what a mess.
Abjectly poor acting performances, stupefying dialogue, monotonous soundtrack and some really horrific rape/torture scenarios. Read more
Abjectly poor acting performances, stupefying dialogue, monotonous soundtrack and some really horrific rape/torture scenarios. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Speedicut
Disgusting and perverted, an insult, a crime
First of all this review was to me a personal need: Basically, I've made it my habit, to find out prior less as possible about a book or a movie to form my own impartial opinion. Read more
Published 2 months ago by B. Groß
just a terrible film!
ok for a start, i dont mind the gore, i dont mind the real anima deaths, (even though i dont approve of them)but what i do mind is that the film is terrible.... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Christopher
hmm
I spent twenty pound on this dvd,and to be honest i feel like breaking it in half.the film is ok,but the scenes with the REAL ANIMAL CRUELTY are jus not called for. Read more
Published 4 months ago by kate1989
BBFC dont release any more versions of this unless its uncut
This is still censored, even if the cuts are minor and just the animal violence, its still a cut version. Read more
Published 5 months ago by chaos_preacher
Shameless Edition (pros and cons)
Ok, now I think Shameless have done a very good job getting this film released in the UK in what is almost a fully uncut version, and with a pretty fantastic transfer. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Stoker
Excellent Blu ray on a horror classic
Well Cannibal Holocaust is the best of the genre and actually has something to say beyond the gore and nudity.
Anyways the cut version is still good and watchable. Read more
Anyways the cut version is still good and watchable. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Terence Tan Co
sadly, once seen never forgotten..
i remember watching this many years ago in it's fully uncut state, viewed purely out of curiosity / notoriety i sat through the entire film & by the end i tried convincing myself... Read more
Published 6 months ago by A. Chapman
Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece reassessed
The most satisfying aspect of this Shameless release is that it demonstrates how Cannibal Holocaust has finally been understood for what it is - after 30 years! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Christopher Nash
wow!!
Well where to start, this film truely shocked me fantastic. I am a fan of contraversial films and this is amazing a warning though you need a strong stomach and no moral compass to... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. M. Rutland
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