I’m in the big-time bad movie zone now.
Right after this, I’m gonna watch Apocalypse Now.
Hey there, my name is Seojin.
I watched Cannibal Holocaust.
It was bad. And bad movies deserve their own
video format.
Just for the quick info, it’s a horror movie
from 1980,
known for being the first movie ever to use
found footage as a horror element,
creating a sub-genre called “found footage horror,”
which later became popular with The Blair
Witch Project in 1999.
A found footage horror movie often tells a story
about how the main characters died.
Cannibal Holocaust was directed by Italian
director named Ruggero Deodato,
and the movie is most famous for its gory
visuals and controversy.
Apparently some people thought this movie
was real.
But why?
It’s not that scary.
It’s so bad it’s funny.
The most disturbing part is the fact that the movie is bad.
So bad that they couldn’t do any horror convincingly enough that they had to kill real animals on camera.
Weird, isn’t it? It’s like, “see this
movie, it’s called Cannibal Holocaust”-
and what the director does is killing real
animals.
This video is going to have two parts,
how the movie failed to be scary
and why you shouldn’t watch it.
Also, for the past two videos, I watched the
movies in the dark,
but I’ve been using a separate light for
you guys to see my face
but it goes out too quickly and Energizer
batteries ain’t cheap.
So my reaction footage is going to be shot
in the light, during the day from now on.
Hope you don't mind.
Reason one. They basically have only two pieces
of music with variations that are used over
and over.
God, the same music. Over and over.
[imitating the film score]
I hated the opening credits.
Opening credits!
The music just doesn’t match the expected
cannibalism horror,
and they use the same music over and over.
And it hurt my ears.
Oh God- music!
Reason two, the acting is so bad it’s funny.
English is my second language.
I spent most of my adolescence taking English
proficiency tests.
And why do these actors sound like those in
the listening tests.
And will be spoken only one time.
The whole movie is shot and performed like
Samurai Cop or the classic,
“call an ambulance! But not for me!”
How is that going to help me feel scared. Come on.
God, bad acting!
Reason three, the horror is so unconvincing.
The cannibalism does not look real or scary.
I’m not kidding, they just rub a stone axe
against the prosthetics.
It just does not look real at all.
The script is really bad.
Part 2. Why you shouldn’t watch this movie.
With all seriousness, why should every single female character
who dies in the movie be raped before being murdered?
Is that a horror rule, or...
What’s up with that?
And why would you…
Why…
Why would you kill so many animals for real?
Haven’t you heard of the phrase, “movies are not real?”
I saw a coati getting a knife through the
head,
a turtle getting beheaded,
We’re not gonna kill the turtle.
Ah, God.
a baby monkey getting his face cut off,
Tarantular-
a tarantula getting cut in half,
a pig getting shot in the head.
God, my God!
And none of that was fake.
DVD commentary says they did it.
No transitions, no jump cuts, or no prosthetics.
Animal cruelty is not entertaining, neither
are rape scenes.
I don’t know how many times I got angry,
but I’m really angry.
The movie was supposed to criticize Italian
journalism at the time.
The director thought the Italian media at
the time focused on portraying staged violence
to get more sensational footage for the news.
But that’s very hypocritical, isn’t it?
He became what he was criticizing.
According to Wikipedia, “Deodato was charged
with multiple counts of murder due to rumors
that claimed several actors were killed on
camera.”
It’s because they had never seen fictional
found footage in a movie before.
This is the main reason why this movie is
even considered as a good horror,
imagine that, the director going, “my horror
movie is so good that I was charged with murder.”
No.
I do not recommend this movie.
And dear director of Cannibal Holocaust,
or anyone who loves this movie, thinking of
becoming a director,
if you’re bad at making movies, don’t
sacrifice others for your incapability.
People think this is real.
These actors are so terrible anyway.
Cut my leg! It’s bitten by a snake.
Cut my leg! And definitely I’m not going to die.
That’s it for the video.
Thank you so much for watching.
If you had already watched this movie, drop
a comment down below about what you think about it.
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