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Should be renamed to "Animal Holocaust"


The movie was just one massive genocide of all creatures great and small and nothing more than that.

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Agreed. The killing of animals for entertainment purposes is deplorable.

"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." Eeyore

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I totally agree, that was the most disturbing thing of the movie

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What actual scenes of cannibalism did you see ? There aren't any ! Otherwise Lenzi would be doing life !!!

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Yup, pretty much. Faces of Death was like that too.
I don't enjoy watching animals suffer, but sadists love this crap.

"It's never over!"
- The Tall Man

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Yeah, you're obviously for human rights of people of color who are slaughtered like that everyday. Funny how the "worst" part of a horror film is the slaying of animals. I'm not for animal cruelty either, but you people are something else with how you value animals over human life.

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I know the difference. My point still stands that the message of the movie was clearly lost by the animal killings and I don't feel comfortable about people complaining more about the slaughter of animals real or not and the message of women and children being terrorized. I did find it ironic the message was how awful white "missionaries" can be when it comes to slaughtering indigenous and brown people for profit and entertainment purposes, but it seems like the real directors of this film killed animals just for that. Can't say I liked the muskrat death.

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At least all the animals were eaten they were actually killed for food and they decided to film it in a way it helped with the realism documentary style at least for me, I mean really if you were in the jungle like that you'd have to eat something. The muskrat is definitely the hardest to watch because of the screaming,

Also I agree with you I get so sick of people whining about the animal deaths but have no issues with people dying. Ntm most releases of this do come with a animal friendly version along with the uncut version.


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Eat

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I like animals. I don't like humans. Besides, the humans weren't actually killed so no problem there. Fake the animal deaths and actually kill the humans, then maybe you could make a point.

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So the killing and torture of people is OK, but not of animals? Hitler thought the same way.

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I get so sick of people whining about the animal deaths but have no issues with people dying.


People whined, so much that the film's director was charged for murder and he was facing life in prison, until he proved that he did NOT kill a human being during the making of this film.

So the killing and torture of people is OK, but not of animals?


No, they are both wrong.

Hitler thought the same way.


And he had people actually tortured and killed.

These comparisons are idiotic, the film is NOT killing or torturing people, but it DOES kills and tortures animals.

One is a staged situation, whereas the other one is a REAL situation. You people seriously can't comprehend the difference? People comparing them and putting them on the same level have created an entirely new level when it comes to stupidity.



Good gurls are just bad gurls that haven't been caught.

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I saw this film several years ago. To this day, I cannot look at a photo of a spider monkey (or read about one) without thinking about the scene from this film where they killed the spider monkey.

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