Two not-yet-covered exploitation films about people getting massacred in the jungle. Double Feature tries a new approach to pairing difficult films. Cannibal exploitation in Cannibal Holocaust. Animal cruelty. The trial of director Ruggero Deodato for the murder of his actors. Distributors’ moral stance. Do you keep the footage? The influence of Cannibal Holocaust on the decades to follow. Eli Roth. Cannibal Holocaust sequel! Finally, there’s BAG CAT. The good time to be had with Roger Corman and The Big Bird Cage. Some people actually don’t care for breasts. Women in prison films. Conventions of the genre. Sid Haig. Pam Grier. What sets The Big Bird Cage apart.
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Cannibal Holocaust: 4:16 | The Big Bird Cage: 32:20
Also referenced: Little Nemo, Coraline, Amelie, Mean Girls, Debbie Does Dallas, Fucking Machines, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Mondo Cane, Mountain of the Cannibal God, Rocky, Cannibal Ferox, Stuck, The Prestige, Blade Runner, Grizzly Man, Martyrs, Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast), The Blair Witch Project, Platoon, Cloverfield, REC, Hostel, Requiem for a Dream, Leprechaun, The Big Dollhouse, Women in Cages, Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown), Abby, Hellraiser, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, Nosferatu, Ed Wood, Shadow of the Vampire
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Cannibal Holocaust
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Director: Ruggero Deodato
Writer: Gianfranco Clerici
Starring: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
An anthropologist heads a rescue party into the South American jungle to find a missing film team making a documentary on cannibal tribes but can only return with their footage, which reveals their crueler intentions.
The Big Bird Cage
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Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Starring: Sid Haig, Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
