"Sick and sardonic and just plain brilliant." -Duane Swierczynski, author of CANARY and EXPIRATION DATE"Sometimes everything goes wrong, in the best possible way. Think Snuff and Cannibal Holocaust meeting at a midnight movie. And then give one of them a camera, the other a knife." - Stephen Graham Jones, author of MONGRELS and THE LAST FINAL GIRLThirty 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 cinema 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 Eurohorror, Ruggero Deodato, and Lucio Fulci: an irreverent glimpse into grindhouse filmmaking, stuffed inside a rocket of non-stop tropical mayhem.
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Tribesmen: A Novella of Supernatural Cannibal Horror
By Adam Cesare
"Sick and sardonic and just plain brilliant." -Duane Swierczynski, author of CANARY and EXPIRATION DATE"Sometimes everything goes wrong, in the best possible way. Think Snuff and Cannibal Holocaust meeting at a midnight movie. And then give one of them a camera, the other a knife." - Stephen Graham Jones, author of MONGRELS and THE LAST FINAL GIRLThirty 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 cinema 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 Eurohorror, Ruggero Deodato, and Lucio Fulci: an irreverent glimpse into grindhouse filmmaking, stuffed inside a rocket of non-stop tropical mayhem.
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Reviewed by valentino‘Tribesmen’ is a fine book. It’s a solid read, but it didn’t even remotely reach my expectations. As someone who loves film so much more than books, the premise caught me immediately. I love these italian cannibal films from the late-70s and 80s and I guess I’ve seen over a dozen of them. So this being about the making of one of these sleazy low-budget exploitation flicks made me buy it immediately. It was pitched to me as a kind of behind-the-scenes takedown of the genre with a look behind the curtain and the film crew getting closer to the horror than they wanted to. All that’s in there. In fact, that’s it. Cesare just makes a couple of decisions that I found almost baffling. The small crew didn’t even bother me as it’s a short book, although that’s not super realistic. What bothered me the most was the fact that the horror in this is basically supernatural. I didn’t like that. I don’t want my cannibal horror supernatural. That just doesn’t really work. Obviously, I didn’t think the book would go and portray the cannibals as ‘uncivilized’ or ‘savages’ as these old films do, but I thought it’d be an almost satirical take on that in a way that has the film crew being the bad guys they are. I think that would’ve worked better. No supernatural stuff, but real people and a deconstruction of the genre. The book isn’t kind to the filmmakers, but the supernatural stuff kept me from really liking this. And I honestly didn’t love either the characters or the writing. All of that’s just fine and it’s a very quick read. 3/3