Dylan@Metalreviews wrote:
Misha wrote:
I watched Cannibal Holocaust a while ago, it was quite disturbing...
I suppose there is more disturbing Mundo going around...
What the hell is up with that movie? It always gets mentioned as one of the goriest, most terrifying movies ever. Is it really that bad? Is it actually a movie, or a series of gruesome image after grusome image?
Cannibal Holocaust is a protest on the mundo genre, while actually being a mundo film. In case you didn't know, a mundo film is a film shot in conflict areas by which the footage of real people dying is used to make a movie. Mundo is said only to portray the truth, yet mundo film makes weren't too scared to pay people to execute others, or to do things themselves to make the footage some more interesting. These movies often use disgusting animal torture as a method to add realism. Cannibal Holocaust portays the story of Mundo film makers, who were lost in the jungle when making a film about cannibals. Their rescuers came too late, but their footage has been found. The movie begins with the rescue crew and their journey, thereafter comes the prime character's attempt to convince the company that wants to make some money on the tapes not to sell them, by showing the uncut tapes. The tapes show that the mundo film makers are actually the monsters, and not the cannibals. Although no bushmen were hurt in this film (they are all actors), it is quite ironic that a handful of animals has come to a very unpleasant end in Cannibal Holocaust. There is also some footage from "other" mundo films used in the movie, that shows real people dying. The Cannibal Holocaust moviemakers stain their own hands in their protest towards mundo filmmakers.
I never saw any other mundo film by the way, maybe someone else knows more about the the genre...
If you've seen The Blair Witch Project, the footage from the mundo filmmakers that went into the jungle in Cannibal Holocaust is shot in the same way, but in contradiction to The Blair Witch Project, which is inspired by Cannibal Holocaust, A LOT of gruesome stuff happens.
Normally remakes of classic horror films make me explode with rage, but at this one my reaction is more "wtf why would anyone think it was a good idea to remake Cannibal Holocaust"
). But yeah I liked this movie a lot even though I liked alex most so i was hoping everyone would end up unhappy 
