Mikey Moore for Supper, or, Some Cannibals Ain’t All That Bad...

Me | 15 AUG 04 | Long Cut

[TheBigB]

If she's got white skin, a pierced nose, black hair, and is dressed in leather and spikes, a horror movie is perfect.

Izzat true, Bella? :^)

[asgardshill]

she's got white skin, a pierced nose, black hair, and is dressed in leather and spikes

Yeah, but would you want YOUR sister to marry one?

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Nah. I didn't.

It was a pretty wild couple of dates, though!

[TheBigB]

Be forewarned, though.

Eeysh. I'm gonna have to go throw in a Disney flick to get those images out of my head.

What was the "twist ending", though?

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I'll tell ya, the thing about CH that was frightening was the jungle itself. It's actually almost a character in the film, closing in around the filmmakers towards the end, and around the professor in the beginning. It's depicted as as dangerous and unfriendly as you can imagine, with the characters appearing very much as you'd expect a person to look after a few days' deep in what the film calls "the green inferno". Filthy, muddy, with slithering reptiles and insects all over the place, and little suggestions that they are always being watched by someone. No well-coiffed and buffed-out actors and actresses here, in fine LL Bean gear, they are presented as tired, dirty, and becoming consumed slowly by it. We know, but they apparently due to their ignorant arrogance do not, that they are surrounded by forces which want them dead.

[TheBigB]

Substitute "woods" for "jungle" and you've got Blair Witch.

[asgardshill]

I will get a copy of CH as soon as I can arrange it. Commercial movies that have shown the scenario you describe invariably do not come off as believable - the actor's makeup isn't even smeared in most cases, and they "act" scared but you never really believe they ARE scared.

[asgardshill]

Blair Witch blew me away when I first saw it. No legs though, and they should have saved their money on the sequel and just thrown it down a rathole to start with.

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"Witch" was heavily influenced by CH. The whole "found footage" bit, the jerky, shaky camera work...it was all straight out of CH.

I'll tell you what though...I've flown over those same jungles in SA as in the movie. They are forbidding even from 10,000 feet. Green, split by muddy rivers for as far as you can see, with NO signs of human life whatsoever. You just KNOW that if the plane goes down in that stuff, you're not walking out even if you survive the crash.

In "Blair Witch", c'mon...it was a forest in Maryland. You walk to a stream and follow it. You can't be more than a few hours from a field, road, telephone line, etc...That jungle is way worse looking, with far meaner critters in it.

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As I understand it from the interview with the director, they filmed the movie up the Orinoco River about a day's canoe ride from any civilization. Due to the low budget, they camped there on-site, with no hotels, or hair stylists, or showers. The natives in the movie were local tribesmen in their normal clothing.

Needless to say, after a few days, the cast looked the part well. Watching it, you could almost smell them.

[asgardshill]

Watching it, you could almost smell them.

Cool - they finally did a remake of "Scent of Mystery" !

[TheBigB]

In "Blair Witch", c'mon...it was a forest in Maryland. You walk to a stream and follow it.

LOL...Dave Barry ripped BW online. He wrote, "You get the feeling that if these idiots would put the camera down and just WALK, in about a half-hour they'd come to a Wal-Mart."

[koolaidsmile]

Mmmmmmmm, pass me the tasty liberals! Them are gooood!!

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hehe. I watched that with my wife and after it was over we looked at each other in a "HUH? What's the big deal?" manner.

After about 45 minutes of them whining, we were HOPING somebody'd kill them.

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What kind of wine is good with roast Leftist? I guess a good vintage red...they are RED meat, after all.

[asgardshill]

What kind of wine is good with roast Leftist?

A nice Chianti, silly. And fava beans as a side dish :)

[TheBigB]

I always enjoy going through the CULT section at my local small video store. Just to see what exactly they consider to be "cultish." Just today I saw FLASH GORDON, and several SOUTH PARK/MST3K episodes.

Tower Video always has a Cult/Midnight Video section with some of the freakiest films imaginable. My own tastes don't usually get any more outlandish than the Misty Mundae/Andy Sidaris genre. :^)

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Ah, Hannibal! Another guy who'd have fit right in in the Amazon.

The tribesmen would have treated him like Emeril Lagasse.

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Bart&Greg's has a whole shelf, about six feet high, of "Midnight Movies". In addition to Ch, they have such gems as "Haggard" (a feature-length film directed by none other than Bam Margera, late of Jackass), John Waters movies, Blaxploitation, Jungle Cannibal flicks, Giallos, you name it.

[asgardshill]

The tribesmen would have treated him like Emeril Lagasse.

A land where the childish insult "eat me" takes on a whole new meaning! :)

I've always wanted to start my own "cargo cult" - maybe drop a picture of Helen Thomas over an isolated South Pacific island. In 50 years, the islanders would invade and take over the US out of a sense of outrage - and no vote for a Democrat would ever be cast again.