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Like how I worked another castration in there? ) 34 THE BOOK OF LISTS 4. Cannibal Holocaust—The Stone Dildo Director Ruggero Deodato spent many years as Italian neorealist master Roberto Rosselini’s assistant director, and took what he learned and applied it to the cannibal genre. With a camera, a skeleton crew, and a jungle full of savages who had never before even seen a movie camera, Deodato made a film that today still holds up as probably the most disturbing film of all time. I cast Deodato as the cannibal in Hostel: Part II not only as a nod to Cannibal Holocaust, but also so I could ask him questions about how he filmed this stuff.
In this case, it’s the lovely Malisa Longo, who’s forced to watch the boss’s henchman hold down her lover, Manuel Zarzo, as they chop off his manly bits and shove them down his throat, before tossing the poor eunuch into a vat of acid. This scene caused great outrage in 1973, when the film was released, and the scene was cut, so to speak, for many years. The level of violence in this scene is fairly disproportionate to the rest of the film, which plays like a fairly tame seventies Italian gangster revenge film.
Yee haw! 2. I Drink Your Blood (1970) Directed by David Durston Though it was no doubt hard to laugh through the turbulent and tragic tail end of the sixties, this delirious grindhouse classic, produced by the aptly named Jerry Gross, offers drug-induced splatstick as a shocking antidote to the real-life horrors of the likes of Charlie Manson. For doubters and haters, you might want to take the advice of the film’s villain, the one and only Horace Bones: “Satan was an acid-head. Drink from his cup.