Alot of the scenes are decent recreations. The bear, the shootout, the execution all fake. When I saw this back in the day I thought it was real. I was in my early teens.
shareI remember watching it and my dad would catch on to things that didn't make sense. Later confirmed that it was indeed fake.
shareThe movie is real cringey if you watch it today. Not only for the fake scenes but also the stupid music (such as the Old Macdonald theme that plays during the chicken beheading).
shareIt's been about thirty years, but I remember watching this and agreeing that some of the segments were obvious fakes, arguing over others.
shareThe scene where restaurant guests at the table knock open the head of the living monkey and spoon his brain is real. He's so afraid! 💔​
No, I'm not a veggie.
But when you slaughter animals, you should do it with utmost respect.
And it's possible to do so without their fear of death.
Nope, not even a little.
In a February 2012 interview with the National Public Radio program "On the Media," the movie's creator, John Alan Schwartz, said that the scene that purports to show real tourists in Egypt killing a monkey and eating its brains was really filmed in a Moroccan restaurant in the US using Schwartz's friends as actors, foam mallets, a model monkey with a prosthetic breakaway head, a trick table, and cauliflower covered in theater blood for the brains.
That’s definitely one of the scenes that I thought was real all these years.