How to Survive: Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Do you want the good news or the bad news? The bad news is this week is a re-broadcast. The good news is it's Cannibal Holocaust. I suppose that's actually bad news too on balance, but that's life. Can't win them all. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) tells the story of Harold Monroe, a sociologist sent into the Amazonian rainforest to find out what happened to a missing documentary crew. Cannibal Holocaust is honestly a terrible film. Don't bother watching it. I'm not even sure why we watched it. I think someone asked us to cover it once in an email or a tweet but I can't remember. In many ways I can't remember anything before I watched Cannibal Holocaust, but I can remember feeling happiness and joy and a lust for life in general that is now sadly absent from my hollow shell of an existence. Cannibal Holocaust has, in a very real sense, sapped the lifeforce from me in a manner that I'm not sure will ever be reversed. Maybe I wouldn't even want it to be reversed. Maybe this feeling of cosmic emptiness is a kind of punishment for watching it. If it is then I welcome it. I am forever scarred. I am forever a lesser person for having seen Cannibal Holocaust. Don't watch it - it's not worth it. Just listen to the podcast instead. Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: Things like this happen all the time in the jungle; it's survival of the fittest!