SHAM031/SHAM201 - Cannibal Holocaust: The BBFC Advice & Decision

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Is it better than Turkey Twizzlers? How about the correct preparation and cooking techniques for a monkey's brain?

'Fraid not mate.

When it comes to 'brains' you need this man.

Island of Death fan extraordinaire!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Ramsey by name, Ram-sey by nature, eh?

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

As Sean Connery would say-Gordon Ram-shee....

[Sarah@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gummysubstance

im sure somebody has asked this but can find an answer through all the posts. Is this going to have a cut with no animal cruelty; it all taken out? and on blu?

As Daemonia said, the disc will contain the as-uncut-as-poss version and the new edit. The new edit will remove all sight of the animal cruelty, although the fact that it's happened will remain rather than just jumping over the whole scene.

Hope this clears it up!

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[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Disc two contains.....

Jamie's turtle soup for schools campaign!

How to;
Catch skin and cook in 30 minutes!

Round yours for beers and turtle soup tomorrow night, Reaps?

[Calum]

Originally Posted by bigandya

Political correctness has done all this...

Political correctness???

What on earth are you talking about?

Caring about animals = political correctness???

This aside: the making of doc on the Grindhouse disc is one of my favourite extra features ever. Utterly essential viewing.

And don't forget that Ruggero will be at Cine Excess this year!

[darthelvis]

Originally Posted by Calum

Political correctness???

What on earth are you talking about?

Caring about animals = political correctness???

This aside: the making of doc on the Grindhouse disc is one of my favourite extra features ever. Utterly essential viewing.

And don't forget that Ruggero will be at Cine Excess this year!

Wish I could make it along to that, damn living so far North and being skint 24/7!

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by darthelvis

Wish I could make it along to that, damn living so far North and being skint 24/7!

Use the force, darth.

[bigandya]

Originally Posted by Calum

Political correctness???

What on earth are you talking about?

Caring about animals = political correctness???

People really need to understand that there is a massive, massive difference between "caring for animals" (as you put it) and watching scenes transcribed to film 30 years ago. Of course nobody would condone the killing, torture or mutilation of animals in "real life" and its good to see that these days film-makers treat animals with a much greater respect than they did in the past. That is "caring for animals".

The removal of scenes of animal cruelty from films shot prior to our more "caring" society is exerting modern censorship on past works. Past works that were deemed acceptable at that time (as evidenced by the lack of protest at the animal cruelty in both Holocaust and Ferox during the video nasties debacle).

That is what I mean by "political correctness". Not only must we ensure these events never happen again, we must erase them from films where they happened in the past! How ridiculous. It reminds me of the US censors who are removing the words "nigger" and "Injun" from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to make them more "politically correct" for classroom reading.

You cannot hide the fact that these animals were killed just by censoring the scenes from the film! Deodato presented his vision to the world in 1980 and, whether or not he agrees with it now, in these "politically correct" times, its the 1980 version of Cannibal Holocaust that earned its reputation, not a lacklustre 21st century censored print to cater for those who can't stomach what Deodato created.

Incidentally, there was a lot of human suffering during the making of the film too due to adverse filming conditions... but people tend to ignore that....

[Bringer Of Funerals]

I have the EC edition of the film, I do like the film and to be honest I came away stunned at the cruelty. What got to me the most was the monkey killing and the way it was pulling away.

Even though the turtle scene was horrible to watch I knew it was killed humane.

I can't remember the muskrat scene, I must watch it again, overall it was a very good film that is hard to watch

I even hate kids in the street chasing pidgeons when they have landed