Last night I saw the new directors edit of Cannibal Holocuast introduced by Ruggero Deodato himself.
The only differences I noticed to the film were in the acts of animal cruelty. The first big major change was to the muskrat scene, this was handled very well cutting to the jungle canopy, with the screeching of the creature laid over the top.
The other cuts to the animals seemed a bit more obvious, for some reason Deodate has chosen to put some scratched and damaged blue film it to link editied sections, these looked a little of out place to me.
Having only seen the film a two or three times previously to this, I am not sure if there are other sections that have been changed that I have not picked up on. Nothing was obviously missing and all of the cannibal (and doumentary team) violence seemed to be 100% in tact.
Over all, in my opinion this version is not significantly different to the versions I have seen before (I'm sure others will have a lot more to say on this subject than me), and it certainly retains it gut punching impact.
Great work by Deodato and Shamless!
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