I Finally Watched One Of The Most Controversial Films Of All Time (Cannibal Holocaust) 

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One thing is I heard that when Robert Kerman (the anthropologist) realized that the animal they were killing in front of him was real, he got angry and tackled the director to the ground! At least one of the creatures was avenged.

The grindhouse blu ray has an animal cruelty free version on it!

Dude, the song once again goes far harder than it ought to.

Disturbing AF. Didn't have an appetite for a day or 2. This movie haunted me. You know when I realized they were reeaally killing animals, was the Turtle or Tortoise scene. Ya, this movie was too old to have special effects that good.

The animals they killed were actually given to the tribes they filmed with to use as food, the tribe ate them, not the cast and crew.

The director also verbally abused the cast and crew constantly, so bad guy. The irony of the director making this huge point about exploitation while also being one of the worst cases of exploitation in media is just insane.

That 'you won't kill a native on their own land'bit made me laugh way to hard

I once went on a date with a guy, and during it I made an offhand reference to CH during a conversation. He looked at me and asked "have you seen that movie?" I tell him not in its entirety but I've seen scenes from it and know a lot about it just out of morbid curiosity. Turns out his dad is Perry Pirkanen, who was in the movie. He had been studying film in university and was casted by the director. It was his big film in acting and it traumatized him so much he gave up on acting entirely. He'd wanted to quit, but at the same time he was just a young student (I think only 19 or 20 when this was made?) and didn't want to look bad at his first ever acting gig. Weirdest coincidence in my life.

Gotta give the director props for one thing, It's really bold to make a movie asking "Who are the real monsters" when you are, in fact, the real monsters

"I though it was a prop" My dude, Michael Cimino blew up at least two horses while filming Heaven's Gate, and both explosions are on the final cut, thanks to that now we have "no animals were harm" on the credits

The “I forgot my line” part referencing the animal killing outtake had me rolling 😂

Fun fact. The tribe congratulated the actor for that sex scene. Not knowing what a take was, they assumed that he was having sex with her for three hours straight and were impressed by his stamina.

"He was just minding his turtle ass business." Idk why but that really had me laughing 😂

If I remember correctly, the girl that was r*ped before being put on the stake wasn’t clear on what was going to happen to her in that scene. She had a vague idea of what was to take place. Her reactions are real. Her screams, crying, and her struggle…all real. To make it even worse, she was 14.

"... minding his turtle-ass business..." How does GG manage to get a laugh even when describing something so horrific?? Mad skills.

I like that he reviews disturbing content bcuz I don’t want to watch it but I am so curious about it. It’s a happy middle ground. Great video once again!

It’s crazy to me how a director can get so up in their heads about their art they’re do all these awful things in the name of their movie

While making The Green Inferno, Eli Roth asked a bunch of local villagers deep in the Amazon to be the extras. But because they have never seen a movie before, Eli Roth showed this film to them. The local people loved it so much and thought it was a comedy.

When a movie uses any excuse to show a woman being viscously SA'd I know that director is full psycho

So I'd love to see you talk about Ghostwatch from 1992. It isn't a disturbing movie, the thing that made me think of it in relation to Cannibal Holocaust is that it is one of the few movies that people thought were real. Whereas people thought CH had actual human deaths in it, Ghostwatch managed to fool people because it was filmed and presented as a real ghost hunting documentary taking place live on air. Many people missed the text-only disclaimer that briefly played, that told them it was a pre-recorded movie. It was so immersive, and they did such a poor job of telling people it was fake, that many people (mostly kids, but also adults) freaked the fuck out thinking it was real, and the BBC hasn't aired it ever since because of the controversy. I love the movie reviews, and Ghostwatch is both a legitimately good scary movie, and has one of the craziest stories attached to its broadcast. I'd love it if you checked it out, the movie reviews are some of my favorite content on your channel!

You should watch The House that Jack Built, because it's disturbing, but also a pitch black dark comedy and a genuinely interesting movie

I feel like they had a chance to convey a message of who the “bad guys” really are and even take it deeper and show how exploitative our society is of other cultures and things we don’t understand as well as our disregard for animals and how we almost look at them as disposable. However, it sounds like a shit show and just proves everything I stated rather than portraying it in an artistic fashion. Idk that all made sense in my head.

I work at cons and the Director was a star guest at one of these. He made one of our PAs cry BEFORE the Con started and another swap to another actor because he was extremly sexist and had a lot anger issues. Also one of the actresses in this film was there too and the whole weekend these two were fighting. She said that he abused her on set and that he is one of the worst people on the world. Do what you want with that information, I just have personal experience with the Director and I have nothing nice to say about him, that he made this kind of movie totally tracks

The animal kills in this reminded me of one in Friday the 13th (yep, the original!). For some reason, they kill a snake that was minding it's own business on screen in the film, and I do not understand why!! Nothing to do with the plot, just killed the poor thing for shock value. Still makes me made thinking about it! Great vid, GG, thanks for covering this movie!

Here's a good indication: If that one annoying douchy guy who identifies with the joker or rick from rick and morty recommends me a "thought provoking" movie - it's a bad movie. Probably a needless gore fest.

honestly i got morbidly curious and decided to watch alongside the reactions i find it really funny yet terribly sad (as a snake enthusiast (not an expert)) that when Felipe died in the movie, he was screaming to the crew to cut his leg off - yet the snake that bit him was clearly a young python, not a venemous snake an animal died to make that shitty little scene happen overhyped trash fire of a movie, to be frank

I remember watching a few of these infamous old horrors, and Cannibal Holocaust is like the flip side of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. TCM manages to conjure a visceral creepy disgust while not actually showing you all that much thats hugely gory or for the most part even all that horrific out of context. Its a far smarter film than it first seems. CH is the opposite showing you in graphic detail 'shock' gore and animal suffering, but the world of the film itself was completely unconvincing, what disgust I felt was only with the films creators and their needless cruelty. I know some have defended it because of its message... apparently. I mean, really? 'Who were the real monsters?' cliched schlock that manages to be completely lacking in self awareness? Thats what made this trash worth it? Nah, I dont buy it, this is the kind of garbage Id have said I liked when I was an edgy teenager who watched too much live leak.

I see everyone talking about the turtle that got immediately decapitated but no one talks about the little rodent that had a knife wiggling in its neck while it screams out in pain.

Thank you for mentioning the animal abuse. This movie is shocking just for shocking sake. A truely terrible way for those animals to die.

Mista GG's ads are literally the only ones on RU-vid i don't skip because they are so entertainingly and the songs are killer.

they shouldve just called the movie "animal cruelty holocaust". i remember watching this movie in like 2006 and as an animal lover myself,found it hard to sit through those scenes knowing that they were real animals being murdered for no reason essentially.

Fun fact: The last road to hell scene, the “fake” footage the people supposedly shot, is stock footage of actual murders. I found that out recently and was genuinely surprised I went so long without knowing that.

Jesus you hit me hard with the nostalgia with that “you wouldn’t steal a car would you”

Eli Roth’s Green Inferno is definitely a movie that wanted to capture what Cannibal Holocaust did but make it more horror centric and had enough crazy moments to make it more funny than unsettling. Still can be a hard movie to watch if you aren’t aware of his style or this movie’s existence.

I watched this movie, antichrist, and a Serbian film back to back because I convinced myself people were just over reacting....I have so many regrets...

Watching Cannibal holocaust left a thin-greasy film on my soul.

The worst part was the animal killings for me too. Being a big reptile owner and breeder, the turtle scene was really hard to watch, but none of the animals went to waste. They went to the local tribe for food. So while hard to watch, at least the animals didn't die for no reason. That still sounds bad, but you know what I mean.

ty for the animal cruelty warning, a lot of people just launch into it and it makes me really uncomfortable

The thing that always got me about this movie was how the “moral” is that it was f-ed up for the original film crew to do all that shit, but the people actually filming the movie are doing some of the same shit.

You sir deserve a medal and a therapist!

I highly recommend The Poughkeepsie Tapes! It's a mockumentary type horror movie, some parts are trying a little too hard to be scary and end up a little goofy, but it's a good watch

Dude, this was the theme of most scifi/horror movies in the 70s. Soylent Green? We are eating each other! Planet Of The Apes? We nuked the planet. Omega Man? A virus we created to cure all disease turns us into killers. As you can tell...I watched a shit ton of Cinemax at 3am as a kid.

As a girl who owns a small turtle and loves turtles in general, I was not ready to hear the description of that scene and am appalled

Like I can't understand people who can k*ll animals just like that. I don't care if it's acting because they were k*lled for real. Thanks Mista GG for this video!

It’s not as disturbing or bloody as some of the other films you’ve talked about, but I’d recommend checking out “Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees”. It’s a wild ride of a surreal film about a beekeeper who’s been infected by television because of his bees. It’s worth a watch. I think some people say it was the first film on the internet. Love the videos man, keep up the good work!

Even more respect for GG after his total devastation about the animal cruelty. 🙅‍♀️

I remember watching this film with a friend cuz a local theater was showing it for a day in October. After the film, we just stayed silent and walked all the way to Chinatown to grab a little something to eat and get our minds off of it. Pretty sure we were even in either the second to last or last year of high school.

That "you wouldn't shoot a native on his own land" joke fucking killed me 🤣

You should review the Green Inferno next. It isn’t a great movie but it would be interesting to see your comparison of the two

I watched CH years ago and I didn't realise it at the time, but the version I watched had all the animal cruelty scenes removed. I'm super glad I never got to see those :' )))))

This is a completely unrelated video but I'm trying to become literate in Italian as quickly as possible and you speak with such clarity that RU-vid almost perfectly auto translates your English into Italian for every word. Thx again Mista

The main soundtrack from this gets stuck in my head every now and then, it's a beautiful score. And I guess you have seen Shudder's Cursed Movies episode about this, but I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn't seen it. The way the actors describe the effects of working on this movie in that has really stuck with me.

NO WAY REAL ANIMALS WERE KILLED.....WTFFFF WHY BRUH

I'm 30 seconds in GG and can already tell thus content is revolutionary on a whole new level.

gotta love catching a vid before it gets age restricted, also in the case of animals getting murdered in movies: the snake that gets shovelled in Friday the 13th was a real snake, and also an actor trained specifically for movie usage, and the owner didn't even know that it was gonna get killed and he freaked the hell out when he saw it get the chop

Movie was definitely disturbing. I remember waaaay back in high school I had a friend that was barely getting into heavily watching horror movies and wanted to show it to me because she thought I’d be scared of it. Revved it up to being the most scariest movie she’d ever seen. I don’t know if that was true or just wanted to scare me about it but…when it was over to told her the only scene that genuinely freaked me out was…yup…the turtle scene.

Movies with the "ohh maybe they're not the savages, we are!" message make me roll my eyes so hard. Not because it's a bad message, but because I can only imagine being a member of whatever tribe they're talking about and seeing them act like this is some huge revelation. Like, wow, shocking, demonizing humans because of their race / culture is bad. and I say all of that as a white American. honestly movies from the perspective of a person of color and depicting THEIR struggle or their side of these stories would probably be way better. one of the many reasons I hate to kill a mockingbird and how it's storyline is told through the eyes of some southern white girl who's learning that racism? is real.

The moment he said "Oh the legs are still moving?!? You monsters." Was the best reaction I've ever seen to that scene

I wished Deodato would've pick up a map before writing this movie 😂 I'm from Paraguay and I think it doesn't make any sense the road they take to get to the Amazon. But it could be I missed something?

Classic! Totally get your take on it. I've had a "weird relationship" with this movie for many years, in that I never really knew how to feel about it, or more specifically, how to say how to feel about it, but now I usually just say that it's one of my favorite (horror) movies, mostly because it makes me feel things not a lot of other movies have been able to. It's obviously super controversial, but I also feel like it's sincerely a pretty well made movie. Watching (or not watching) it now doesn't change anything about the production some 40+ years ago, which may be a super bad/toxic/problematic take, but I still revisit this movie every few years to remind me that disturbing movies can still have an effect on me! R.I.P. Ruggero Deodato. And, but this goes without saying, awesome and hilarious video!

At one point the whole movie was posted to RU-vid and I watched the full thing until 2am with my friends and we felt awful after.

Imagine being a turtle surviving for a hundred years just to get killed for a shitty movie. Unbelievable

If you want a wierd one to watch with Dee Snider Strangeland I haven't seen it since I was 13 or something but yeah definitely remember it being pretty messed up

The crazy thing is, cannibal holocaust was commenting on worse films! Particularly the 'mondo' craze. Shock-umentaries that filmed destitute people and the horrors of the situation, all being sensational-ized and often staged, for shock value alone. The sad thing is that cannibal holocaust does most of the same things it criticized

So glad I'm not the only person who still references that "you wouldn't steal a __" commercial, this is very validating 😂

Your editing is getting so good my brother. 🙏🏼 blesses to you

It's been said before but Cannibal Holocaust should've just been a book.. Could've spared us a lot of pointless animal slaughter and worker exploitation. It wants to be a film with an anti-exploitation message while being made with legendary amounts of it.

This is why I watch this channel, between the commentary and editing MistaGG manages to make truly despicable stuff actively hilarious. “Schmutilation” had me ROLLING.

I saw this movie 16 years ago and the turtle scene is still haunting me, it's so sad 😔

I like how people who went to a movie called CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and saw exactly that and were suprised.

Dude. Your flow is everything. Thank you for your amazing efforts to rap your ads 😊

I think you should watch the movie MEN (2022). It’s an attempt at artsy social commentary horror that starts out decent and then just gets bat-shit crazy at the end. I considered it disturbing for the sake of shock value, but I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

I know i'd be turning the film off at that point, but seeing GG's reaction at 10:39 has me creasing

This was freaking hilarious, great reaction! This movie was pretty crazy and is definitely exploitation!

I have a strong stomach for horror and gore in general but Cannibal Holocaust just sucks to sit through. All the animal scenes are just terrible. Everyone talks about the turtle, but the little muskrat thing getting killed with the knife fucked me up for a week. I can still clearly remember it 5 years later. I'm just glad I was watching with a buddy to break the shitty tension and make fun of the movie. That theme music is fucking good tho tbh

I was lucky enough to meet a few cast members and Ruggero Deodato at a con back in 2012. For a film coated in controversy, they were absolute pleasures to be around. Alan Yates gave me his event guide when he realized I didn't have one (still got it) and Ruggero photobombed me which is still one of my favorites celeb selfies ever. Just really classy, cool people.

here before demonetized 🫡

Glad you had the same reaction as me. I was just like "this...this just isn't entertaining..."

Definitely one of those movies that is way more interesting for the history it has and the influence its made in the industry than for the actual plot itself

I think my favorite scene in the movie is when the anthropologist decides to win the trust of the tribe by going nude in the river, and the women playfully approach him. It's strangely wholesome compared to the rest of the film. R.I.P. Ruggero Deodato!

I hate the fact that they put these animals there for the shot only to kill the animals. I really hope the producers get what they deserve in hell

This man has seen countless disturbing movies that I wouldn’t last 0.2 seconds sitting through and he’s already getting folded by the most infamous one, you’d have to pay me 9.1 mil to sit through a movie like this.

You balk at the ending line but its 2023. When this movie was made that would have been quite a startling thing to say to a lot of people.

I dunno bout y'all but i was more disgusting by the rape and excessive nudity.

I don’t often lose my appetite over even the grossest things but the whole turtle kill thing made me nauseous.

You should watch Bones and All and Raw - two more recent cannibalism films that really make you feel horrible afterwards lol (really well made though)

I could never really get myself to watch this movie bc of the animal cruelty, no way I could do it knowing it’s real. But I’ve also always wanted to know what the hype was about so I’m glad to be exposed to it this way 😅

Its a jaguar not a leopard! There arent any leopards in the Americas

You really set the mood with the movie's background info at the beginning xD

Big thanks for not only giving a heads up when talking about some of the animal killings but also putting in a countdown. Made it super easy to skip it on phone, really appreciated cause that's a topic I cannot stomach at all ❤️

Never seen this movie but the quick switch up from confusion to disappointment at 9:30 killed me

Honestly, killing animals for zero reason is just unnecessary to me. I love to hunt and do eat wild game meat but killing an animal and not using anything? Just killing it to kill it? That's stupid.

Having watched this movie I can safely say it's hard to recommend to anyone. Even Cannibal Ferox is easier to recommend and I would think twice before doing that. On the upside, the soundtrack is amazing. Riz Ortolani is an absolute legend. Check out his body of work. Quite expansive. Edit: Fun fact, he did music for Mondo Cane in '65.

The real cannibalism is actually mister GG creating this video and us watching it

Just discovered your channel, love your presenting style. I subscribed after I saw the insane way you promote the sponsored products haha. Keep it up.

“They’re bad people, cut off the shmeat sure” 😂 had me dyin.

Dude this doesn’t even look like found footage. How did anyone think this was real?

I guess people who the turtle scene freaks out haven't heard of hunting. They decapitated it first, that's pretty humanely. Then they eat it, classic catch, clean, and cook.

If you want a better disturbing movie, The Last Horror Movie is an interesting one as it analyzes the perpetuation of violence by the media that films it and uses it as content and how much they’re complicit in it etc. Also Funny Games, the original or the remake, is a good disturbing movie that comments on the nature of violence in media. A lot of Haneke’s movies are good disturbing movies actually. Martyrs is great too but can’t remember if you’ve watched it yet.