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CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
United Artists, 1980
    PRODUCERS Franco Di Nunzio and Franco Palaggi
    WRITER Gianfranco Clerici
    DIRECTOR Ruggero Deodato
    STARS Robert Kerman ( Harold Monroe ), Francesca Ciardi ( Faye Daniels ), Carl Gabriel Yorke ( Alan Yates ), Perry Pirkanen ( Jack Anders ), and Luca Giorgio Barbareschi ( Mark Tomaso )
    Professor Harold Monroe (Kerman) agrees to lead a search-and-rescue party into the Amazon jungle to determine the fate of a missing documentary crew. When he recovers their footage what he discovers is beyond imagination.
    Why It Sucks
    This sort of thing makes “torture porn” films like Saw seem like Cannes Film Festival winners. This film about vicious European/ American explorers being massacred in hideous ways is probably the best of the worst, but that still means it's damn disgusting — more so by the filmmakers' attempts at realism.
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    The Crappies
    The “I Didn't Mean That” Award goes to … Writer Gianfranco Clerici and director Ruggero Deodato for accidentially creating a fillm that can be interpreted as a condemnation of Mondo documentarians and their habit of staging events to make their films more interesting.
    And the Worst Director Award goes to … Ruggero Deodato for actually having live animals tortured to death on camera, just to make a crappy horror movie.
    They Really Said It!
    Harold Monroe : I've seen the rest of the material. You haven't. You haven't seen the stuff that even your own editors didn't have the stomach to put together, and if you had, you wouldn't hesitate but to agree with me.
    Betcha Didn't Know
    The film is so realistic that Italian authorities arrested director Ruggero Deodato shortly after its release and put him on trial for murder.
    The film was rated X for violence when it was first released, and it remains banned in several countries.
    Trivia Quiz
    What recent gore-fest movie did Ruggero Deodato have a cameo appearance in?
    A: Final Destination (2000)
    B: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake)
    C: Saw III (2006)
    D: Hostel: Part II (2007)
    Answer: D. Hostel: Part II . Ruggero Deodato plays a patron of the cannibal hostel and is seen chewing on a leg.
CEMETERY MAN (AKA “DEMONS '95” )
Audiofilm, 1994
    PRODUCERS Conchita Airoldi (executive producer), Heinz Bibo, Tilde Corsi, Giovanni Romoli, and Michele Soavi (producers)
    WRITERS Gianni Romoli (script), Tiziano Sclavi (original novel)
    DIRECTOR Michele Soavi
    STARS Rupert Everett ( Francesco Dellamorte ), Anna Falchi ( She ), François Hadji-Lazaro ( Gnahgi ), Mickey Knox ( Marshall Straniero ), Fabiana Formica ( Valentina Scanarotti ), and Katja Anton ( Claudio's girlfriend )
    Francesco Dellamorte (Everett), caretaker of a small-town cemetery, spends the days burying the deceased, and his nights fighting them when they rise as flesh-eating zombies. But when he and his assistant (Hadji-Lazaro) meet the loves of their lives (Falchi and Formica, respectively), only to see them turned into undead residents of the cemetery, things really start to get bad.
    Why It Sucks
    Cemetery Man could have been a nice little surreal horror comedy. (What says comedy like flesh-eating zombies?) But it far too often draaaaaaags , as the director plays with interesting visuals and struggles to capture the feel of the Tiziano Sclavi story on which it's based. For all the great imagery, gore, violence, nudity, and bizarre sex, the film turns out to be … boring.
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    The Crappies
    The Worst Writer Award goes to … Screen writer Gianni Romoli and novelist Tiziano Sclavi in a shared effort for coming up with an ending so nonsensical that even the most generous-minded viewer will be left feeling cheated.
    And the Worst Director Award goes to … Michele Soavi for getting so wrapped up playing with the camera that he forgot to keep the story moving. We're torn between wondering if there ever will be another crazy zombie attack and looking at Anna Falchi's naked body.
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