SHAM031 / SHAM201 - Cannibal Holocaust: The Screenshots
 

As per requested by member Anth, here's a few screenshots from the upcoming Shameless Screen Entertainment release of Cannibal Holocaust...


More to follow...

Looking mighty fine. :nod:

Can't wait for this one!

And 6 more for you horror fiends.

Nom nom turtle brain.

I'll just repeat what Bizarre said. :cool:

looking good :)

So glad a pre-ordered both formats, this looks amazing!


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I've seen this so many times that I wasn't going to bother but the screen shots have sold it to me.

If this is a good seller how about Shameless doing a nice Ferox follow up.


Would make one hell of a HD double bill

I was thinking that this afternoon too but I doubt they would be able to get away with saying Umberto Lenzi and the cast ate those animals they killed to get that allowed almost uncut by the BBFC like Holocaust.

Of the two I always preferred Ferox. I appreciate Holocaust is a superb film but I always preferred the camp schlock of Ferox than the depressing Holocaust.

Wow! Those shots look superb, what fantastic quality. Much better than I expected and considering screenshots don't tend to do films justice it looks like we're in for a right treat.

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looking good enough to eat, ahem. Man, it looks great and look at the small file size, on a hd telly either on Blu or upscaled this could be Shameless's finest hour. Just don't expect the gutter press to agree. Bravo.

I'm still not convinced the impaled woman effect was faked by her sitting on a bicycle seat holding a piece of balsa wood in her mouth. :eek: :lol:

Me too even moreso now i've seen the relevant screenshots. CH's PQ does indeed look impressive and roll on this release!:)

I might be wrong but they have pictures and maybe a video of that effect in the Grindhouse DVD.

You mean it's not real, have I been conned all these years!


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:lol:
I mean the guy said he dnt think it was achieved by the woman sitting on a stool with a stick in her mouth.

That's the only explanation for it I've ever read, can't think how else they could've done it


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yup I agree

I guess the sarcasm was lost on you! ;) haha

:lol:
sarcasm on the message board dont come across very well :doh:

Looking good, but are these shots from the dvd or the Blu-Ray?

As far as I know they are from the Blu-ray.

Both BD and DVD use the same HD master so even the DVD will have gorgeous PQ. :)

Well, it certainly looks lovely......can i really go for a 3rd one though??:rolleyes:

considering the Daily Mirror headline today, the press are still V E R Y keen on scapegoating, so the furore may still occur....
...all publicity being good of course....;)

What can the Daily Mirror do? It's not like it's back in the early '80s when it was released without a certificate. These days it wears it's BBFC badge (and I must say, a big thank you to the BBFC for this one) and it even has a VPRC one too. I hope that times have changed.

What was the Daily Mirror headline then?

Typical rubbish
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I did a GTA massacre, it was tremendous fun - got five wanted stars and still manged to get away!:happy:

And I cut Pete's pet turtle up with my machete!

****ing Daily Mirror......best used for wiping your ass.:nod:

Oh,and Kyle-those screenshots are looking GOOD!:clap:

ha ha that can be rock stars new downloadable content.

ah the mirror and the mail both rags of paper I cant believe people actually read

put this here because it’s about Cannibal Holocaust, but didn’t know which particular thread to put in it tho,

It’s about a long lost / discovered piranha scene in the film.


https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/39...TfkbWHUudzCTYE

Exclusive: Proof CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST Piranha-Torture Was Filmed
Film historian Calum Waddell has some exciting news about a supposedly "unfinished" scene from the controversial CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST!

Only one still picture of this sick scene has survived.

On a trip to the Amazon before Covid-19 hit, Waddell confirmed the filmmakers rehearsed the scene. And he a witness insisted the crew actually filmed it.

“I reached out to a gentleman called Ronaldo Blanca, who still lives in Leticia, Colombia,” Waddell tells Dread Central exclusively. “Fans of Cannibal Holocaust will remember Ronaldo as the young man with the leash around him in the film. He’s the guy Professor Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman) uses to find the legendary Tree People.



“Now Ronaldo has only fond memories of starring in the movie and I was honestly thrilled to touch base with him and find him alive, I mean what are the odds?” Waddell continues. “Anyway, he finally watched Cannibal Holocaust for me, over 40 years later, and he tells me about who some of the native actors are.”

Here comes the revelation: “Then Ronaldo says, ‘There is one problem with this film. Where is the piranha scene?’ Now, as fans will know, one shot exists of that scene. Ruggero Deodato, the director, always said it was shot for publicity. That they couldn’t make it work so it was never filmed. But Ronaldo says to me, ‘No, no, I was there for that scene – he definitely shot it. He called ‘Action!’ and he called ‘Cut!’ and some of us had gathered around to watch it and we all applauded… it was a brilliant effect’.

If you think this story couldn’t get any more bizarre, you’d be mistaken.

Cannibal Holocaust celebrated its 41st anniversary recently. But the infamous exploitation flick remains as controversial today as it was when it was first released in 1980. Despite a cult fan base, the film has been dismissed as racist. Activists have condemned the film for its very real scenes of animal cruelty. Most tragically, a monkey is decapitated and an endangered river turtle is slaughtered.

Some of the human deaths were so convincing, many suspected that director Ruggero Deodato had actually created a snuff film. Even if Cannibal Holocaust is a work of fiction, its rape, mastication, and savagery are still hard to stomach.

Even for the most black-hearted of horror fans. Deodato shot the film deep in the Amazonian rainforest (dubbed “The Green Inferno”). The production itself is a Heart of Darkness story. One with many details that wait for discoverey.

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew. Their goal was to study the region’s cannibalistic tribes.

One film historian doing his best to separate fact from fiction in regards to Cannibal Holocaust is Calum Waddell. He’s been researching the film for years. He wrote a book about it (Cannibal Holocaust (Devil’s Advocates)) and a documentary (Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film). I was lucky enough to sit down with Waddell, and he shared an exciting, recent discovery.

“I’ve had a real interest in the Italian cannibal film cycle for a while now. Because watching some of these movies today you do sort of wonder, ‘Wow, how the heck did this ever get made?’ And the stories behind-the-scenes just have to be exciting. Because [the filmmakers produced] Cannibal Holocaust in thick in the Amazon jungle back in 1979. Which is a tale unto itself.”

Indeed, Cannibal Holocaust comes with its own mythology and mysteries. And one of the most compelling is the “lost” (or “unfinished”, depending on who you ask) piranha-torture scene. It consisted of tribesmen tying one of their own to a log and then dipping him into the piranha-infested river. When he emerges, the meat-eating fish have almost completely eaten his leg; some still hang off the man’s stump.

He told me how they used a local guy who had lost his leg. It’s worth remembering this was a time of war in the area. So it could have been because of this. They literally stitched live piranhas to a prosthesis. And pulled him out of the water after his leg was being eaten away. He says it was all set up, took a day to film, and he’s absolutely insisting on it. So, I guess we have yet another puzzle in the Cannibal Holocaust legend. Will we ever find this scene in a dusty archive somewhere? I hope someone out there knows!”

So do we! Hopefully, anyone with ties to Cannibal Holocaust will be inspired by this article. And they will search their dusty attics and/or storage lockers for this infamous footage. Many will maintain that Cannibal Holocaust is a film that shouldn’t exist in the first place. But others will be excited to find a missing piece of this extremely bloody puzzle!

We’ll be keeping in touch with Waddell. We’ll see when his further findings on the making of Cannibal Holocaust lead him. Hopefully, he’ll uncover even more unsavory and tantalizing details about one of the most infamous horror movies ever made!