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Eli Roth Goes to the Jungle

Written by Aaron Mitchell | Friday, 26 October 2012 22:44

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Eli Roth, best known as torture porn autere and director of Hostel, went to the jungle and held a screening of Cannibal Holocaust for an isolated tribe of Amazon's because of course he did.

We're talking about the same Cannibal Holocaust about a group nature documentarians who run afoul of a group of amazon natives who slaughter and eat them. The film is largely garbage but has a greater reputation for the insane rumours that have surrounded the film, like an Italian court arresting and charging the director of the film with murder when authorities refused to believe the film wasn't footage of actual killing, lead actor Robert Kerman being a porn star having a stab at mainstream acting, the fact all the animals in the film were actually killed, including two monkeys as the monkey killing seen had to be reshot, and the main reason you probably haven't seen it, the film was completely banned in Australia until a few years ago with customs officers seizing and destroying any copies posted into the country.

So while scouting locations for his new movie (also about cannibals in the Amazon jungle) Eli and co met a remote tribe who would be perfect extras. To convince them to be in the movie they agreed to buy them a boat and a bunch of medical supplies, and to show them what a movie actually was, as the tribe had never seen one before, they screened Cannibal Holocaust for them. Although Eli doesn't credit the idea as being his own he was pleasently surprised to find the villagers though Cannibal Holocaust was hilarious. Personally that would be cause for concern.

Soure: Movieline.com