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Post by dem on Sept 25, 2024 7:15:23 GMT
Adam Cesare - Tribesmen (Black T-shirt, 2019, originally Ravenous Shadows, 2012) Blurb: DON'T MESS WITH THE NATIVES! Thirty years ago, cynical sleazeball director Tito Bronze took a tiny cast and crew to a desolate island. His goal: to exploit the local tribes, spray some guts around, cash in on the 80s Italian cannibal craze. But the vengeful spirits of the island had other ideas. And before long, guts were squirting behind the scenes, as well. While the camera kept rolling ... TRIBESMEN is Adam Cesare's blistering tribute to Cannibal Holocaust and Lucio Fulci: a no-bullshit glimpse into grindhouse filmmaking, stuffed inside a rocket of tropical non-stop mayhem. I'd recommend the novella Tribesmen by Adam Cesare. It's his loving tribute to Eurohorror splatter epics like Cannibal Holocaust. If Guy N. Smith were starting out today, this is what he would be writing, only better and with more crabs. Euro perve porno-horror veteran Tito Bronze flies a six-strong cast and crew to a remote Caribbean island to improvise a rip-off of notorious censor-baiting Italian gore movie, Cannibal Fury Atrocity over three days. Bronze had been counting on a welcoming committee of curious tribesmen, but the village is eerily deserted. The indigenous folk have been butchered and their dismembered corpses discarded in a slimy meat heap. Their ghosts, led by a witchy old woman, stalk the film-makers, luring the executive producer to his doom (can't remember, but I think somebody steps in what's left of him a few chapters on) before enticing Umberto Luigi, the pill-popping, sex-crazed male lead to clothe himself in dead pig and hack apart Daria, the make-up girl with a machete. Bronze orders Denis Roth to keep filming. The junkie cinematographer, caught up in the excitement, needs little encouragement to join Luigi in a cannibal feast, all lovingly captured on film. "Cinéma vérité! The world's first Neo-realist splatter movie," enthuses Bronze. Now to slaughter nominal heroine, Cynthia and her lily-livered screenwriter boyfriend. "Get one thing straight: Tito wasn't condoning murder. He wasn't prepared to perpetrate murder. He was only trying to secure his cinematic legacy." At around the 130-page mark, Tribesmen moves like a bloat-free 'seventies NEL horror throwback. I tore through Cesare's novella in one sitting, enjoyed it so much I'm determined to sample another of his slasher's shortly. File under sweaty, sticky and horrible. #FilmCrewinPeril
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