Boombats wrote:Cannibal Holocaust is fucked up. I'm not into watching people kill random animals. However what was awesome was the incidental music. Every time something horrible happened there was this synth sound, "Doow deew doow deew" that totally trivialized the extreme violence in a truly captivating way. Fucking Germans.
I have to see all of the films mentioned above. Video nasties, gore galore!
Senor Boombats,
I'm not into watching animals get killed for the sake of film either. The director was against all the animal killing, however, the producer insisted the scenes be shot. It would be much more truthful of you to say "Fucking Italians", since the film is Italian made. The "Doow Deew Doow Deew" is part of Riz Ortolani's score for the film (which is actually really great). Animal killings are not. All the synthesizer "Peew" noises with the delay on them did get kind of annoying when people were being killed. Anyway, I love Italian horror films...
rayj mentioned Men Behind The Sun. This is also a profoundly disturbing film.
I would also reccomend Beyond The Darkness (found in a big puff box at Mom + Pop video stores as Buried Alive... not the one released by Universal, it'll have a blue girl on the cover who looks like shes in a coffin, if any of you try looking for it.)
What about Tetsuo? Tetsuo is a fucked up (yet, very well made) film...
I saw "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" recently, and I don't reccomend anyone else does unless you're REALLY curious. Its a strange japanese short film which borderlines on child porn and is very disturbing in a very avant-garde way.
The Cannibal Xerox stuff made me laugh alot.