“Cannibal Holocaust” quotes

(1980)
Movie Cannibal Holocaust
Title Cannibal Holocaust
Year 1980
Director Ruggero Deodato
Genre Adventure, Horror
Plot – Four young researchers visit the most unknown Amazon areas, but they never come back and professor Munro looks for them. Together with some locals, the man reaches a wild tribe finding the traces of the group and, once back in the USA, Munro discovers the four guys' horrible fate.
All actors – Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile, Ricardo Fuentes, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Paolo Paoloni, Lionello Pio Di Savoia, Luigina Rocchi, Geoffrey Gerald Copleston, Lucia Costantini
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  • “We weren't able to get anything out of the Yanomamo except for the wristwatch they gave us as a token of their gratitude to an ally, an ally they continue to fear and mistrust, so I've decided to try an experiment in psychology: to strip myself completely, clothes, weapons, dog tags, rings, everything, to become like them, naked and unfettered...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
    [Tag:ancestry, nudity]
  • “In there, the more you carry, the quicker you get tired, the sooner you die.”
    Salvatore Basile - Chaco Losojos
    [Tag:death, weariness]
  • “- Chaco Losojos: They just want to show us they are brave warriors. And they want us to follow them to the village.
    - Professor Harold Monroe: Follow them?
    - Chaco Losojos: To return the prisoner, and to talk.
    - Professor Harold Monroe: I don't know about this. I think they want us for dinner tonight.”

    Salvatore Basile - Chaco Losojos
    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
    [Tag:cannibalism, fear]
  • “The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Larry Dolgin - PABS Reporter
  • “Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today.”
    Larry Dolgin - PABS Reporter
  • “- Chaco Losojos: Professor! I recognize these teeth. This is Felipe Ocanya. He knew the jungle as well as I do.
    - Professor Harold Monroe: That makes me feel terrific.”

    Salvatore Basile - Chaco Losojos
    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
    [Tag:death, knowledge]
  • Here we are at the edge of the world of human history. Things like this happen all the time in the jungle; it's survival of the fittest! In the jungle, it's the daily violence of the strong overcoming the weak!”
    Carl Gabriel Yorke - Alan Yates
  • “- Professor Harold Monroe: All I want to know, Mr. Chaco, is... do we have a chance of finding them alive?
    - Chaco Losojos: Who's to say? The only thing I know is we're gonna risk our lives to save those fuckers. Let's go see the Yacumo.”

    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
    Salvatore Basile - Chaco Losojos
  • - Faye Daniels: Jack, what do you want to use this for, a porno film? Stupid men!
    - Alan Yates: That's not a bad idea! How about "Jungle Jollies"?

    Francesca Ciardi - Faye Daniels
    Carl Gabriel Yorke - Alan Yates
    [Tag:pornography, rape]
  • “I can't understand the reason for such cruelty. It must have something to do with some obscure sexual rite or with the almost profound respect these primitives have for virginity.”

    Carl Gabriel Yorke - Alan Yates
  • “- Professor Harold Monroe: What's exceptional about a primitive tribe like the Yacumo being... terrorized and forced into doing something they don't... they don't normally do?
    - 3rd Executive: Come on, Professor! Let's be realistic. Who knows anything about the Yacumo civilization? Today, people want sensationalism. The more you rape their...” (continue)
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    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
    Susan Spafford - 3rd Executive
  • “Would you like people to make money off your misery?”

    Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
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