Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Posted : 8 months ago at Mar 25 20:33

This incredibly graphic movie shows people that there are two sides to humanity, the "savages" and the "civilized". The movie highlights the same contrasts as the book Heart of Darkness, which was later adapted into the movie Apocalypse Now. I recommend this film because we should know about the past, in order not to repeat it.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Jul 9 20:41

Yes, a revenge flick, my most favorite meta-genre, but good enough to be better than most. What I like best about this movie is the format in which it's told. Here's the high level overview, copied and pasted directly from Wikipedia.org... "...the movie tells the story of four documentarians who journey deep into the jungle to film indigenous tribes. Two months later, after they fail to return, famous anthropologist Harold Monroe travels on a rescue mission to find the group. Eventually, he recovers and views their lost cans of film, which reveal the missing filmmakers' fate." (Their fate is pretty obvious, btw.) In any case, the format gave it a true sense of reality as all you know about the four filmmakers is what you see as you watch the films with Mr. Monroe, the anthropologist....Read more

Rating : 8/10