Naked and mangled

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Movie
German title Naked and mangled
Original title Cannibal Holocaust
Country of production Italy
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked and confiscated
Rod
Director Ruggero Deodato
script Gianfranco Clerici
production Franco Di Nunzio ,
Frabrisio Palaggi
music Riz Ortolani
camera Sergio D'Offizi
cut Vincenzo Tomassi
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Mondo Cannibale, Part 2 - The Bird Man

Successor  →
Cut and run

Naked and mangled (original title: Cannibal Holocaust ) is a cannibal film by Ruggero Deodato from 1980, which is close to the exploitation genre .

action

New York University anthropologist Harold Monroe travels to the Amazon to find a missing group of documentary filmmakers. Alan Yates, Tina "Faye" Daniels, Jack and Mark wanted to film a documentary about cannibals there . Monroe discovers the camera of the film team at the Yanomami and next to it the remains and bones of the people. Back at home in New York, he watches the film and discovers a gruesome story. In order to get particularly exciting and authentic scenes, the film team did not shy away from burning an entire village and accepting the death of many natives in the process. The team also filmed the rape of a native by the three men on the crew. The raped native is later struck upon a thin tree trunk; according to the film crew, the natives killed her because of her lost virginity. Despite protests on the part of Monroe, the producing television broadcaster wants to use the recordings in a documentary, which will only be disregarded after those responsible are shown the cruel final scenes in which the members of the film crew are caught and literally torn to pieces by the angry natives. The director Alan doesn't even care that they rape his wife and then disembowel them. He is holding his camera on this event. In the end, all four are dead and the projectionist is given the task of destroying all of the material. With the words: “I wonder who the real cannibals are?” ( Eng. “I wonder who the real cannibals are.”) The professor leaves the building and then goes into hiding in the urban jungle .

General

Naked and mangled is often considered the climax of the cannibal or mondo film. Deodato staged his work in part in a seemingly realistic documentary style, and it even has a coherent plot compared to other films in the genre. Deodato also addresses a - albeit paradox - political concern: Despite its own lurid bloodthirstiness, the film soars to moral criticism of the mass media's lust for sensation . Furthermore, the atrocities committed by the film team should be a reference to how easily the dam breaks between culture and civilization. The professor’s final remark in particular is therefore extremely important for the self-justification of the film, as the implied reference to the brutality of modern, civilized people gives the film a (albeit superficial) socially critical paint.

backgrounds

The Italian coverage of the Red Brigades

Deodato drew parallels between the coverage of the Red Brigades by the Italian media, which he believed lacked journalistic integrity and ethics, and the behavior of the camera team in his film; in particular, certain scenes were posted in the news.

Jacopetti and Prosperi - Mondo

After Deodato, as an allusion to the work of Mondo director Gualtiero Jacopetti, the fictional film "The Last Road to Hell", which contains video material from real executions , was added as an alleged predecessor documentary by the film team from Cannibal Holocaust. According to Riz Ortolani , who composed the music for Cannibal Holocaust and was hired by Deodato for his work on Jacopetti's Mondo Cane , the film pays homage in a way to the films by the directors Jacopetti and Prosperi.

controversy

In many countries, the film, which was extremely brutal in places, was met with censorship , indexing or confiscation, including in Germany . Even within the horror film fan base there was criticism of the real animal killings common in the cannibal genre. According to Deodato, however, these were subsequently eaten by the film crew or the natives.

Deodato was also accused of using real human corpses for his film and of impaling a woman especially for a scene , which earned him a court hearing. The impaling scene, however, was realized using a tree trunk with a bicycle saddle at the end. A branch made of "softwood" was then placed in the actress' mouth symmetrically to the "lower trunk".

All versions of the film have been confiscated or indexed in Germany due to § 131 StGB by judicial orders.

Director

Naked and mangled is not Ruggero Deodato's first foray into the world of cannibal films. In 1977 he shot the sequel to Umberto Lenzi's Mondo Cannibale from 1972, the film Mondo Cannibale, Part 2 - The Bird Man . According to Deodato, several producers offered him a lot of money for a second part of Cannibal Holocaust , which he never shot.

Sequels and remakes

  • In 1985 a cannibal film by Mario Gariazzo was released , which was also released under the name Cannibal Holocaust 2 , but has nothing to do with the original and acts as an independent cannibal film, which many horror fans see as a brand fraud.
  • In 1988, Green Inferno (originally: Natura contro ), directed by Antonio Climati, was another representative of the genre. The film was renamed Cannibal Holocaust II for DVD evaluation .
  • The company Relevant Entertainment bought the rights to the film and announced that a remake of the rotated in 1980 original was planned. Filming should begin in summer 2007.
  • 2007 appeared with Cannibals - Welcome to the Jungle by Jonathan Hensleigh more a tribute to the 1980 cannibal film than a true remake of Cannibal Holocaust.

See also

literature

  • Estein, Axel 1991: Cannibals. Meat is meat . In: Splatting Image, No. 8, pp. 5-14
  • Jauregui, Carolina Gabriela 2004: "Eat it alive and swallow it whole!" Resavoring Cannibal Holocaust as a Mockumentary . In: Invisible Culture 7, pp. 1–11 full text (PDF; 96 kB)
  • Petley, Julian: Cannibal Holocaust and the Pornography of Death. In: King, Geoff (ed.) 2005: Spectacle of the real. From Hollywood to reality TV and beyond. Pp. 173-186, Portland: Intellect Books, ISBN 1-84150-120-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ruggero Deodato: Interview with Sage Stallone ; Bob Murawski . Cult-Con 2000. Cannibal Holocaust DVD Commentary. Tarrytown, New York. November 12, 2000.
  2. ↑ Ortolani, Riz (interviewee). (2003). In the Jungle: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust (Documentary). Italy: Alan Young Pictures.
  3. ↑ schnittberichte.com with reference to the confiscation decision of the AG Karlsruhe of October 17, 2002. Accessed on January 3, 2013
  4. ↑ schnittberichte.com Retrieved January 3, 2013