What Would Ingmar Think? - The Canary Visits The Last House on the Left

Well, I decided to tackle the other big video nasty from the pile whilst I was at it.  Tackling Cannibal Holocaust actually did generate a bunch of donations (is that what it takes to make you give, MY SUFFERING?!?), so might as well see if I can go for a double.  It's the film that I think more than any other personified the sheer brutality of US exploitation cinema at the time, really got the ball rolling on quite a few other horror projects later in the decade, and had one of the best movie taglines of all time, which you can see in that trailer below... pity then it's such utter shite (oh, Spoiler for the review I guess).  It's 1972's The Last House on the Left.

Canary vs. The Ultimate Nasty - Cannibal Holocaust

Well, I was going to watch this one when the fundraising hit a certain level, but I decided to go ahead with this before then because I figured that I didn't want to have it lurking in the corner of the bedroom until next year.  So I decided to face it, a real challenge for me to sit through the whole thing.  As promised, I'm going to give my full thoughts on this one, mainly so I can properly purge the memory, and have something constructive from putting myself through it.  It's the poster child for the whole Video Nasties moral panic (somewhat literally, its poster was the main image used in a lot of news stories at the time), it's 1979's Cannibal Holocaust.

I'm not going to embed the real trailer, as even that is shockingly explicit, you can see it here if you like.  So I'll pepper this article with some trailers and clips for other cannibalism movies that I actually like.