The Bloody Pit

The Bloody Pit #34 - CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE (1980)


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John Hudson returns to the Bloody Pit to help me discuss

this amazing cannibal gore film from director Antonio Margheriti. Shot in Atlanta, Georgia
during the cooler months of the year lends some fascinating texture to the film
and gives the plot about deranged Vietnam Vets a little gravity. And when your
story revolves around a virus that somehow transfers cannibalism between people
like the flu you need all the seriousness you can muster! Luckily this is one
of the very few Margheriti films that has been released to DVD in the US with extras!
Among those extras is a very nice 54 minute long documentary about CANNIBAL
APOCALYPSE that includes interviews with the director as well as actors John
Saxon and Giovanni Lambardo Radice a.k.a. John Morghen. This gives us a little
more insight into the film than we usually have and allows for some examination
of the ideas presented, which I like!

Before we dive into the film Hudson and I catch up a bit

with discussion of our upcoming Alice Cooper encounter; John's history with
Tarantino theatrical screenings; his rewatch of The Sopranos; my journey
through the Hannibal TV series and a general concern for the winter weather. Once
we attack our main topic I start with some information on the legendary Italian
screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti who is responsible for so many of the classic
Euro-Cult films of the 1970's and 80's that entire books should be written
about him! As the podcast continues we complain about the often inappropriate
score along with an audio example of the sound of blood dripping from meat -
high strangeness. There is some talk about flamethrowers and exploding dogs as
well as the real animal cruelty in the sewer scenes. We touch on the use of
wood as a metaphor (I'm not kidding) and end up wondering what words rhyme with
Saxon. Yeah, we're all over the place in this one.

Thank you for downloading and listening to the show. We can

be contacted at [email protected] for any comments or complaints. At the
end of this episode we lay out the plans for future Bloody Pit shows about
Antonio Margheriti as well as the other movies that will be covered in the next
few months. We hope you enjoy what we're doing and please stay safe and warm. 

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