I think it was made in 1980. The animal killings were real, fortunately the cannibalism is fake One particularly brutal animal killing scene is the most disturbing part of the movie. Other than that, it is watchable to some extent. You may safely skip it. I watched it for the sake of watching the most controversial movies. It looks like no one wants to make these type of movies anymore. All the unimaginable movies were made in 70s-80s in europe. I deleted my review of Maladolescenza(features explicit child/teen nudity, but has an excellent subject/theme) here minutes after I posted it, not being sure of the reaction. I am planning to watch more of these cult/controversial movies in the future

Check out Gaspar Noé's Irréversible, if you haven't already. It's safely in my Top Ten Ever.

Where may I ask did you find a copy of this? I haven't been able to and it's been on my 'watch' list.

Irish, I downloaded it because I wanted to watch it un-cut. I am not sure what the DVD version is, but you can get it in amazon.
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Also, watch Pasolini's Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom.

Yeah but I didn't want to have to spend $18 on a movie I've never seen. Did it cost anything to download it? Also, where did you download it from?

Well, it would have costed if it was a legal download
Bit torrents are the only source for all these cult movies. i.e. if you want to watch them un-cut.
Capo, I will watch your recommendations, plus 2-3 more movies are in queue.

capo, salo looks good

Apparently (based on my search of controversial movies), USA is more liberal in terms of allowing/banning films compared to european countries. But the irony is that most of these movies are european and USA hardly produces such movies. Artistic courage vs fascism - interesting thought, or so I think

Is this the site you got it from?

bittorrent.com usually has nothing useful. I usually download from isohunt.com, torrentspy.com, mininova.com etc. I just google(movie name torrent) and find the first site that offers it. None of these sites store the movie, it is always peer-to-peer. So these websites act as a tracker. And in most cases all these different websites I mentioned point to the same tracker. So in effect it doesn't matter which website I download it from. I check for number of seeds before downloading. Irish, if you are new (sorry for presuming) to torrents, then I would suggest downloading a software like Azeureus. Then it is a simple matter of googling. In case you know all this, just ignore all the suggestions

I don't know any of this so thank you for the suggestions, espcially the one listed above. If this is peer-to-peer, how do you protect against viruses? I used to download music all the time a couple of years ago and after getting so many viruses from it, I felt it wasn't worth it. Have you had similar experience?

I haven't experienced it yet on torrent sites I listed above, but it is always a possibility. I had a nasty virus attack recently from some other website ( I guess one of the filesharing ones like rapidshare/megaupload, not sure). It took me almost a week to get rid of them, inspite of having mcafee. It took me a combination of mcafee, avg, hijackthis, windows defender and vundofix to get rid of it. Mcafee is the only one I bought, all the rest are freeware. I found avg pretty good. But that is off-topic.
I can't imagine getting hold of any of the rare movies from a mainstream rental like blockbuster. The worst part is blockbuster (as you know better than anyone) will not even stock nc-17 movies If I go to a local blockbuster and ask for cannibal holocaust, they may dial 911

No unfortunately, they'll probably just give you a blank stare. I've found in some stores the employees aren't very knowledgeable with movies made prior to 1983. I'm not saying I'm Mr. Movie Encyclopedia myself, but I'd like to think I'm fairly knowledgeable in terms of movie titles, actors, directors, etc. (although I'm sure a select few will vehemently disagree with me on that notion).

PRIMEVAL
(First Viewing)

A news team is sent to South Africa to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.

This film started out pretty interesting but turned pretty disastrous about 30-45 minutes into it. First of all, I'm not a fan of the 'killer croc' genre or any gigantic killer animal genres. They seem pretty cheesy and unrealistic. Secondly, the CGI was pretty bad in some shots which took away from the suspense because I wasn't afraid when the croc came on screen, but rather I was laughing. Finally, films that take place in Africa are depressing. I hope that doesn't sound wrong/bad but they are. After I watch a movie that takes place in Africa I feel like hanging myself with an extension cord.

Best line of the movie though was from Orlando Jones: "I'm never gonna say this in front of a bunch of white people. Slavery was a good thing. Anything to get the f*ck out of Africa is a good thing."

I wouldn't disagree. As far as Blockbuster and its clientele goes, I think you'd be a pretty valuable employee.

If you're serious in that comment Capo, then I deeply thank you! And if not, you're a ballbusting pr*ck And if worse came to worse, you could be both

Just about everything you said here actually made me want to watch this movie. I love these cheesy, bad cgi, killer animal movies. SciFi channel has become the home of these types of movies and you can watch one just about any time of the day. I find them worth the same as a good comedy.

To each his own. I didn't enjoy this film but if you like these, then I would advise you to see it. But I do understand where you're coming from. That's why I enjoy some of the Grind House and Japanese movies I've been watching. Some of them are just so silly and tongue-in-cheek, I find myself asking, "where they serious when they made this!?"

Any one seen the Meglodon movies about the massive prehistoric shark.Now those movies are good for a laugh.

I am a prick, but I was serious just for a second there. Make a note in your diary.

I will. I think that's the first compliment I've ever received from you Capo, so yes, I will savor it

It's not the first, actually. But I've gone far enough today. Next I'll be sucking your cock.

We don't need to go there. I don't remember the first compliment but again, it was much appreciated. We might not always agree on movies, movie reviews, etc. but I've gotta tell you Capo, I do respect you. So your words do carry weight with me.

Crikey, what's going on around here?

Can you feel the love

Speaking of crocs, has anyone seen a croc movie with Michael Gazzo (Frankie Pentangeli) as some kind of cop? I saw a small bit of it on TV long back, but that was when I had watched GF2 recently. It was kind of weird to see him in that role

The boards are a more peaceful place now I guess. Why ruin a good thing?

SEPPUKU (aka HARAKIRI)
(First Viewing)

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-law, and how he was forced to sell his real sword to support his sick wife and child. Tsugumo thus sets in motion a tense showdown of revenge against the house.

What a Japanese masterpiece. Excellent camera movement in this film! This and RASHOMON are probably my all-time favorite Japanese movies. The only real problems I had with this film were the pacing (I saw a couple of places I felt could have been sped up or cut out) and the sword fighting scenes weren't well done. It seemed as if Tatsuya Nakadai had never held a sword before in his life. I'm not expecting this guy to be a full blown master in the "exquisite art of the samurai sword" (as Beatrix Kiddo likes to refer to it), but at least let me try to believe you're a samurai. That's one thing I always respected about actors such as Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu (from the ZATOICHI series), and Tomisaburo Wakayama (from the LONE WOLF AND CUB series), they may not have much practice or experience with the sword, but they at least come off on screen as being master's with the blade. However, other than those 2 complaints, I thought the film was fantastic.

Have you checked out the 2003 version of Zatoichi, yet? I recommended it a while back. It's directed by one of my favourite directors, Takeshi Kitano, whose style of ultra-violence and comedy may well sit well with you - it certainly does me.