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With Francesca Ciardi, Luca Barbareschi, Robert Kerman Directed by Ruggero Deodato To shock is one thing, to commit deliberate acts of animal cruelty & slaughter, and promote (by not condemning) abuse, rape and murder of women is another. I've always heard about this 1970's movie and its extremities (always coming from a horror / gore perspective) - when in fact it is a poorly made sensationalist exercise in sadism and brutality that neither thrills, nor excites. Nothing makes me queasy, not even the gratuitous on screen decapitation of turtles, monkeys and muskrats. The moral sense behind it is what appalls me. Sure, we ignore the abattoirs and butchers where our meat comes from, but to tell a story of a bunch of radical documentary filmmakers who venture into the Amazon and create the horrors they capture on film has very little motivation when it comes to onscreen animal killings outweighing the cannibalism of the title. Movies like The Blair Witch Project no doubt borrowed from this so-called "classic's" format of the missing crew's film discovered and viewed. When it comes to the fantasy element of horror's gross-out, freak-out or scary moments, we know it is fake, but movies like these can justify its methods, but it's all just bullshit covering up the blatant sensationalizing of abuse, perhaps breeding more sadistic people out there than creating activists capturing concealed camera footage in a slaughterhouse. This irresponsibility also flows into the extreme misogyny, which has very little motivation except for cheap thrills (for those who get off on that sort of shit) and to no doubt profess the depiction of the narrative's malicious moviemakers' lack of morals - something which is inadvertently an analogy for the actual makers of this piece of trash. While the film will freak out many sensitive viewers, the most shocking aspect to me is the fact that many horror fans list this as one of their top 10 favourites - the horror (translation: "cruelty") being mere outrageous acts of violence and brutality almost entirely directed at animals and women. To  add
this
to
the
Horror
category
is
an
insult
to
horror
films
as
a
whole,
and
should
rather
be
lumped
into
a
category
of
its
own,
like
Irresponsible
Filmmaking
or
Unregulated
Sensationalism.
I'm
sure
(or
at
least
I
hope)
that
fans
of
the
movie
only
advertise
their
love
for
the
flick
as
a
macho
angle
because
of
the
film's
controversy,
and
not
for
its
depictions
of
gang
rape,
sexually
driven
murder
and
animal
killings…
I
love
horror
films
and
watched
movies
like
Maniac
and
Dawn
Of
The
Dead
when
it
was
banned
in
South
Africa
before
I
was
16.
I
turned
out
fine
-
not
a
killer,
wife
beater
or
animal
abuser
-
knowing
that
the
images
were
not
real
and
merely
a
story.
I
oppose
censorship,
but
do
support
regulation
to
prevent
the
exposure
of
extreme
material
to
those
not
ready
for
it
-
unfortunately
some
minors
can
handle
such
material
better
than
some
adults...
What
sits
badly
with
a
film
such
as
this
is
the
fact
that
it
tries
to
camouflage
real
cruelty
as
art
along
the
lines
of
a
fake
documentary,
but
ultimately
fails
not
just
for
its
bad
acting,
but
because
it
has
no
conscience
(even
when
lame
attempts
are
made
at
it).0 / C - PB Flamedrop feels that even the worst film still deserves a rating of 1 for actually getting it made, but in very few cases exceptions are made... 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 A - B - C |
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