Cannibal Holocaust. Ruggero Deodato, 1980.
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Edition screened: Grindhouse DVD, released 2005. English language. Runtime approximately 96 minutes.
Summary: Real and brutal murder of non-threatening animals.
Details:
1) A coatimundi screams in agony while held in a man’s hands and killed by knife, 19:40-20:00.
2) A sea turtle is brought up from the water at 53:55. Through 57:35 it is beheaded and hacked to pieces while still alive and struggling.
3) A tarantula is chopped up with a machete, 58:40-58:42.
4) A snake is beheaded and hacked up, 59:30-59:37.
5) A squirrel monkey is decapitated at 1:03:35, the head further mutilated and the brain eaten raw through 1:04:25.
6) A small pig, tethered to a stake, is repeatedly kicked then shot point blank, 1:06:35-1:06:55.
It is the responsibility of this project to index cruelty in films; To expose these techniques as the unnecessary, artless, and low-end panderings that they are; To alert viewers not only that they might not want to watch, but also that they share a world with people who accept such things.
Yet I regret indexing the horrendous killings documented in this film. I regret providing a roadmap for cruel viewing, and passing out this map to the stupidest and most insecure among us who want to watch, pretend to laugh, and make light of normal people who realize the atrocity.
Some of you are reading this right now. You who are telling your idiotic friend some idiotic idea to gross-out your girlfriend. You who are eager to launch into a speech about the real world, the laws of nature, survival of the fittest; yourselves unfit in every way yet protected by laws you mock as “politically correct.” You who seem to think your own life is somehow slightly valuable. I assure you, it is not. I celebrate your lifetime of closeted psychological misery, perceived persecution, and an inability to spend time quietly alone, culminating in some laughable death mourned only by your closest peers who are false in every action.