I knew I had to eventually change that, but I wasn't thrilled about it. I can easily devote an entire post to my moral opinion on the movie, but suffice it to say that I had a serious problem with the notion of killing animals on film, for one thing. Yes, I know I like to eat meat; yes, I know this stuff happens all the time without cameras rolling. But that's far different from cruelly murdering living things in order to make a movie. There are reasons things like this are prohibited, and I don't care what the "artistic purpose" was, to be quite frank. I mean, if you're gonna off six exotic jungle beasts, it should at least be for a movie that's better than Cannibal Holocaust.
Finally, I could stall no longer. The time had come to face the film I had long dreaded. But I wasn't going on the ride alone. Oh, no--thanks to the wonderful Twitter phenomenon, I was given the opportunity to invite others to join me on an odyssey of growing disgust and revulsion. And so, the Cannibal Holocaust live-tweet was born. For those not familiar with the practice, what I basically did was tweet my live reactions to the movie as I was watching it. Followers could choose to watch along with me, or simply read bemusedly as I streamed my train of thought online.
All in all, it was a pretty fun experience, which is ironic considering the movie I was watching was about as far from fun as it is possible for a movie to be. Lots of people responded, and I even gained some new followers in the process. Now, for those of you who actually had better things to do Monday night, I present the full transcript of the live-tweet--keep it handy for the next time you sit down to enjoy Ruggero Deodato's light-hearted South American romp!
There you have it. Might have to do something like this again sometime. If you're not yet on board the B-Sol Twitter train, feel free to follow me here.#CHlivetweet Yo Adrian, I DID IT!! .....*whew*#CHlivetweet 1:35:01 Is that the World Trade Center in the final shot? If so... yeesh.#CHlivetweet 1:34:19 "I want this material burned. All of it." Agreed.#CHlivetweet 1:32:41 Apparently these were real natives?? I wonder what the hell they thought of all this....#CHlivetweet 1:20:06 Wow. This is some full-on cannibal nastiness. Feel bad for the girl, though. She wanted no part of it.Cannibal Holocaust has been placed in the player. Let the live-tweet begin... #CHlivetweet#CHlivetweet 1:26:38 O_O
#CHlivetweet 00:25 Thomas Jefferson and Santayana have been quoted. Let the phony self-righteousness begin!
#CHlivetweet 1:49 Riz Ortolani's haunting theme....so astoundingly inappropriate, yet so beautiful
#CHlivetweet 3:34 "Today we are on the verge of conquering our galaxy...." ????
#CHlivetweet 6:55 First glimpse of cannibalistic hyjinks..... Yummy.
#CHlivetweet 10:42 I'll say this is already about 20 times more ambitious than House by the Edge of Park, the other Deodato flick I've seen
#CHlivetweet 14:22 These cannibals have lovely bob hairdos. Very Clara Bow...
#CHlivetweet 16:28 Leeches! I've been freaked out by them ever since The African Queen....
#CHlivetweet 18:33 Worm filled skull! I like where this is going.....
#CHlivetweet 19:49 OK the dude just cut the throat of that weird little rodent
thing......Reprehensible. Yet couldn't stop watching. Mouth aghast.
#CHlivetweet 21:44 Aaaaaand mudrape. How pleasant.
#CHlivetweet 23:03 My first "why am I watching this again?" moment.....
#CHlivetweet 28:59 I think this particular cannibal went to the Lee Strasberg school....
#CHlivetweet 31:32 God I haven't seen an Ellesse track suit since my days growing up in Bensonhurst...
#CHlivetweet 34:23 More wanton rapiness and mutilation. I'm guessing there is no musical number imminent.
#CHlivetweet 37:04 This is just SO bizarre. Naked ppl in the river...Ortolani's sweeping theme.... What the holy hell....
#CHlivetweet 38:36 Bodies of the filmmakers discovered. I will say, this quasi-documentary style was pretty ahead of its time.
#CHlivetweet 41:22 "They just invited us to dinner." Lovely.
#CHlivetweet 43:31 This TV newscaster's cardigan is disturbing me more than almost anything I've seen thus far
#CHlivetweet 45:05 And the faux documentary film begins....
#CHlivetweet 48:47 '70s bush sighting
#CHlivetweet 51:32 Brooklyn! Wow, didn't expect this. Ah, the accents of my homeland....
#CHlivetweet 54:17 Oh no. Turtle.........
#CHlivetweet 55:03 Jesus H. Christ.
#CHlivetweet 55:53 How the hell much did they pay these actors to get them to do this shit? Good god in heaven.
speechless
#CHlivetweet 1:00:00 I have to finish this, right?
#CHlivetweet 1:04:04 Monkey's head chopped off. That leaves only the pig-shooting to get through..... lalalalalala
#CHlivetweet OK, pig shenanigans coming up 1:05:47
#CHlivetweet 1:06:55 The little pig is screaming and quivering. Delightful. These people should've been incarcerated.
#CHlivetweet 1:08:44 Tribal massacre. I can totally understand now how people might've thought this scene was real.
#CHlivetweet 1:10:39 And now, a sex scene. Yeah, cause nothing puts one in the mood like animal slaughter and the immolation of natives.
#CHlivetweet 1:14:10 Ah, heavy-handed moralizing. Look dude, you're making an exploitation movie. Own up to it.
#CHlivetweet 1:16:01 I am angry at this movie.
#CHlivetweet 1:20:52 Again with the rape.
#CHlivetweet 1:22:51 CHICK ON A STICK! CHICK ON A STICK!
#CHlivetweet 1:25:23 Looks like the cannibals are about to get some payback....
Thanks 2 all who diligently followed my Cannibal Holocaust live-tweet! I made it. OK, who's got some shrimp w/ lobster sauce, I'm hungry!