Anyone seen Cannibal Holocost? (sp)

If she is who I am thinking she is , I enjoyed watching her getting shagged in House on The Edge of the Park.

The UK disc has 15 minutes missing thanks to the censors from that although the scene I mention should not be missing
 
Saw holocaust years ago and thought it was alright,nothing special,the impaled girl looked pretty real even though its actually a bike seat shes sitting on lol ,holocaust has more of a story but Ferox has the stronger violence,supposedly its banned in over 50 countries.
 
I would disagree that Ferox has the stronger violence.

With the exception of the "hooks through the tits" scene (cut from the UK disc entirely) every other example of violence is pretty much a repeat of things seen in films like Jungle Holocaust and other "Cannibal" movies.

CH has definitely the most gross animal slaughter scene with the turtle and while there's not as much close up and obvious fake gore (like the scooping the eye out) there is far more nasty sequences like the scene where the girl is raped with a stone ,the pregnant girl is given a forced abortion and of course all the death scenes near the end.
 
Seen it and not by choice, I pride myself on being a horror fan but had never heard of this film until I watched it a couple of years ago by mistake because some idiot online renamed it to something that my other half wanted to watch.

Made me sick to my stomach and I could not eat meats for the better part of two weeks, I know some are going to say "Well it did its job then" but it was not the film itself that made me sick, it was the animal killings and the execution footage taken from nigerian news or whatever it was that made me sick.

In short a truly offensive and disgusting peice of crap, that should have got the writer and director shot not paid millions because of people's curiosity.
 
Grindhouse Releasing stated many times online before the release (5 years in the making at the time) that the Last Road To Hell would be shorter due to them using the original negatives........they werent just using any old print. This was stated many times by employees from the company and it is not cut in any way at all, it is the original version of the film.
 
Yes and so does pretty much every other cannibal movie - and all look obviously very fake.


DVD commentaries from the director appear to show he does regret the animal cruelty but it was a regular ingredient of cannibal movies at the time although the practice is now banned even in Italy.



Its been a while since I last watched CH but I dont recall execution footage in it.

I very much doubt the director or cast made millions from it although the studio that made it must have done well because the year it was released in Japan it was the top grosser even making more than E.T.
 
So where did the 10 seconRAB of footage come from?

Maybe the damage was on the negative so thats why it was removed.

If its on my 2 disc Grindhouse why did they not put it in the film?

Print damage was also the excuse for several shots missing on the original US dvd of Tenebrae
 
Exactly. They were using the original negatives which had the print damage. At the bottom of the dvdcompare page, under cuts, it specifically goes through all the versions with 10 seconRAB cut and mentions it was due to print damage.
 
I can't remember, but does the title Cannibal Holocaust come up on the screen during the film?

If so, I would have thought you would have stopped watching it right there hurrikane? Or do you mean this person somehow edited in a new title for some strange reason?
 
Dammit klaeresource stop being such a cynic :D

I can't remember any execution footage either. And Ferox has a fabulous theme tune, just thought I'd throw that into the ring :p
 
Of course it is the original version and if you watch the Grindhouse version you will see the extended Last Road To Hell under special features and guess what? It's not just extended scenes there are also alternate shots including alternate title carRAB and alternate credit listings so what does that tell you? There were quite a few versions of The Last Road To Hell and the Grindhouse DVD shows you on split screen the differences between them......
So the version you on the Grindhouse DVD is the original version from the negatives, even though there are other versions which are longer, more gorier and have alternate title carRAB and due to them being from a different source could not be included in the restoration. The difference in picture quality would have been noticable and like any true movie restorers out there.....why would they insert footage just because it exists?
If its not on the original negatives then it wasn't in the original film is it? Thats like taking an extended scene from any movie and just inserting it in...just because you can. Any extended or deleted sequences should be included as a special feature only...which is exactly what Grindhouse did.
 
According to dvdcompare the Ultrabit is also using the original, 35mm Italian negatives...
Now, they can't both be right, either EC Entertainment is lying, or Grindhouse is. And besides which, on dvdcompare there is no mention of alternate titles carRAB and the like, only 10 seconRAB of footage which is missing...seriously think about it, why would they sequence that footage and then create the cuts they did, all of which sound like things that should be there:

"There are 3 cuts, about 10 seconRAB in total, all from the "Last Road To Hell" sequence (around 40-45 mins into the movie):
-Scene showing an execution is missing.
-Scene showing an executed, hooded prisoner is missing.
-Scene showing executed prisoners being loaded on a truck (this scene is included, but shortened a few seconRAB in the end)."

The alternate version on the special features disc is just that, alternate. It is not the same as the Ultrabit version. The Ultrabit is exactly the same, but it includes the above missing footage.

Personally I think Grindhouse were using a damaged print, they knew it, and had to make something up to justify it. To be honest, the point is moot anyway, Grindhouse created a deeply inferior feature disc. The picture is interlaced, which is ridiculous, plus it has a washed-out colour grading, compared to the Ultrabit. And then of course with all the other stuff on disc 1, it isn't using the full bitrate available.

That's the reason XL Video always choose the Ultrabit copy for their special editions, and the extras disc from Grindhouse.
 
Not keen on it. Apart from the unnecassary killing of animals, there wasn't really much that shocked me about it. I found it boring.
 
Again I have to disagree - sorry.:)

The Ferox music is a rather dated almost disco soundtrack in places which I thought was naff when I first saw it in the early 80's.

The soundtrack on CH is a rather popular one from Riz Ortolani (or something like that) in that the music is a quite pleasant melodic one that contrasts completely with what happens onscreen some of the time.
 
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