It’s Real? Man Being Eaten By Lions
November 23, 2006 07:02 
102 Comments » This guy gets out of their car to take photos of a pride of lions!! Anyway, He did, He got attacked by lions and then got eaten.
This video footage is real. Don’t watch it, if you cannot withstand it.
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The reason it was edited so heavily is because it was actually 2 videos spliced together. It was originally in a movie and later appeared in Traces of Death in 1993, but it is widely believd to be real, although there are those that disagree with the footage
who are you to say what entertainment is cyn? some people may find stuff like this entertainment and some may find it sick just to watch. you may think those who think this is entertainment is sick but in that case everybody in the middle ages where sick.. i like waching stuff you dont see everyday and stuff that feels unreal can also be healthy because it can blunt you
For the people hoping this video is real, I’m sorry to disappoint you as this is a very very clever fake. Unfortunately one of the biggest give aways of this video is the lack of blood seen in the scene especially on the body and lion’s.
Those Faces of Death are actually 90% fake, death’s made and staged to make people believe what they are seeing are real.
You have to ask why is a guy filming a guy getting out of a car to the lions? It’s a fake don’t worry folks.
That is why they call it the ‘Wild’. Not like the Movie “Madagascar” These are ‘Wild’ Animals in the ‘Wild Bush”. This is also why were are in our motorcars and the animals are outside. Look and Learn. Currently in the Kruger National Park. Best Wishes.
P.S This is REAL.
lol you guys are all wrong,this is not from”faces of death”or “traces of death”(although it was in there).Its from a 70s Italian movie called”savage man savage beast”.It was an anti hunting and poaching film made to scare people basically
This is a movie scene. Convincing, yes, but a forerunner of the Blair Witch approach. Faces of Death is largely faked (dramatised), but like any old footage (the walking Yeti) it attracts those who want to believe. There are also so many technical problems with it, listed above, such as the number plates, it just doesn’t stack up anyway. Believe in UFOs instead. Or God.
Mondo film savage man savage beast, along with court clips, three cameramen were there to take this footage, and those who deny it’s real gave the most stupid reasons like how the lion is not attacking with savagery, are you kidding me? the lioness basically tore off his arms, and then some idiots question the part where the lioness took a bite, the man’s head cocks up in pain, but says it’s a fake rubber doll, wtf, the man was in tremendous pain, that’s a reflex action, and yes, apparently one of the cameramen were on hand to capture his family horrified expression, i would too if i was there and heard his wife and kids screaming in horror, i would switch my camera to them, those huys filming are not his friends obviously, they proberbly even found abit of amusement at his stupidity, hey it’s a cruel world, but we all gotta take it as a lesson not to fuck with nature.
Haven’t seen anybody complaining about videos showing people hunting and killing thousands of animals daily. How come that the slaughter of so many innocent animals goes unnoticed while the death of one person (which could have been avoided if the victim followed common sense and the Park’s instructions) creates so much outrage?
And the definition of double standards is ???
Feel really sorry for the man and his family but in the grand scheme of things can’t understand the objections
Thats why we violate stupid ass laws that say no guns allowed.If anything attacks,you get eaten,but hey,at least the asswipes won`t lock you up for violating some preppy gun law,….hey–lock me up. its better than getting eaten alive!
guys this is just fake. the man is PLAYING WITH THE LIONS! first of all. if a lion attacks you, you ll be dead in 2 seconds. a lion bites in your neck.
second thing, ok if this would be real, why isnt there any blood? and the lions dont seem to be aggresiv.
fake fake fake
but its would be still horrible if a man get eaten by a lion
If you would listen to the audio as well as watch the video, you would hear the narrator say that the terrain prohibited the cars from driving forward and scaring off the lions.
It also looks like urine has stained the man’s pants, which is a natural physical reaction to trauma or death.
I vote that it’s real.
Firstly, why is there always some kid or two bit loser pretending to be a ‘lion expert’, ‘professor’, ‘camera man’ or generally a ‘professional’ who has some insight which supersedes everyone else’s? No-one believes you, and if you are a worthy intellectual then at least tidy up your spelling and grammar, and present your thoughts in an educated fashion. I’m not saying that I am waxing prose here, but I am not proclaiming to be anything more than a man with an opinion.
Secondly, how the hell can anyone be so sure of what someone else might do in a situation like that? It’s easy to say you would run them over with a car, it’s quite something else to do it. I’m not saying this is real, just that big words on a forum is hardly convincing or impressive reasoning.
Thirdly, to those saying the lions are playing. I’m not an expert by any means, but I’m a modern man, and I have animal planet! I recently saw a keeper why fed lions thinking they were penned in, but was surprised to find one of them all over him seconds later. He survived, and yes, it/they were playing but if he had not behaved in the submissive manner which he did, they would have killed him. Now, this is his opinion of course, but I did see him getting thrown about the place by seemingly docile lions which playing or not were doing him some injury and might have easily killed him should they have felt like it.
Fourthly, IMDB is as unreliable as Wikipedia for having information on things which have no discernible evidence one way or another.
I don’t know if it’s real or not. But then neither do you.
Hello people. I’m a contract photographer going on 35 years now and I can assure those who believe this to be a fake that it is not. This film has been cut for drama’s sake as it was shown on a Wild Kingdom show in 1976, although filmed two years earlier. It has been cut up because seeing the actual film would be very difficult for most people. The film in its entirety is owned by Sony Pictures as over time this is the company that has eventually come into ownership. I know this because I’ve done “board work” for Sony pictures and have seen many titles in their archives. What you’re seeing here is what someone recorded on their VHS back in the seventies from the show Wild Kingdom, it was part of a series of docudrama’s they showed regarding safety with animals. The reason it’s filmed in the manner it is, is because it is 1974, game wardens didn’t carry firearms, people were still somewhat naive and didn’t realize their vehicles would deter the animals and you’re also missing a lot of the video…..42 minutes of it to be exact. And by the way, I’d stop relying on Wiki for anything, insofar as my research entails they’re wrong 50% of the time.
Compaltely agree with Wolfgang. Eather these people were dumb to ralize it or they were so panic that they didn’t figure out scaring them with the vehicles. However, it so sad ;(
What did I say about so called professionals? Wolfgang, you are not in any better position to know than anyone else just because you’ve seen an archive with it in! You said you are a photographer, what’s that got to do with film editing anyway?! Furthermore, intellectual or otherwise, ownership is not acquired ‘over time’. It is more likely that Sony distributed an edited copy to the TV stations as part of a consortium for the purpose of the show in question. The original footage however belonged to ‘World AudioVisual Corporation’ and can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyrvB5nPW0
I do agree that Wikipedia often has unsubstantiated information, but to come to the conclusion 50% of the information is wrong leads me to think you are making assumptions.
What I’m trying to say, is don’t bring your boasts to the table without facts you can prove. Even if Sony do own the recording rights, and it was shown on ‘Wild Kingdom’, does it answer the question at hand ‘is it real’? If not, no-one is interested in vague information about being a photographer, or having exclusive access to Sony’s video vault. I’ve been a photographer for 15 years, been editing video, writing music, and having full penetrative intercourse for just as long, but it doesn’t let me know whether this man was eaten by a lion.
Anyone else? Maybe someone out there has been going on safari for 50 years, and been a paper boy for 20, so clearly knows both everything about lions and then the most efficient was to distribute the video evidence?
Rant over…until the next moron.
this would be horrible if it was real.so, im just going to try to convince myself it is, for comfort. :S first of all, the way the cut to the family, what video camera does that with out editing? and again, if it WAS real, dont you think this would’v been on the news. sure, it was the seventies, but it would still be referred to in today’s media. i dont know though.. there isn’t enough sufficient information to make this real
…or fake. :/
I suppose that I can understand how so many people would be convinced that the attack depicted in the footage is real, as most people have no experience with big cats, but I can assure you that at least those portions of the film depicting the attack are almost certainly staged. I have worked with big cats for 31 years, and can promise you that a lion attack is an explosive, ferocious thing that always proceeds in the same manner – at least for the initial attack – I’ve seen inexperienced hunters do some oddball things after the takedown. The body language of the attacking lions is 100% wrong. Further, the damage depicted in no way reflects the actual damage that I have witnessed in two separate big cat attacks on humans (mountain lion and tiger). Neither attack was deadly, but the victims in both attacks were terribly clawed and bitten and reduced to bloody pulp in seconds. It was shocking even for me, as their usual prey animals have much tougher hides – human flesh gives way like butter by comparison.
Anyhow, the footage is almost certainly false – at least with respect to the attack. However, I am in no way discounting the fact that such attacks do happen. I am sure that such footage exists – I am aware of some footage of the bloody aftermath of an attack by a small caged lion that is very real and very terrible.
To the morons who thought this was real.
Do you really think the person holding the camera would take a shot of the guys 2 year old kid crying their eyes out while their Dad is being savaged to death.
Use your fucking brains.
Actually, this is a little tricky. The video at youtube is taken from Faces of Death part 1, for which already a documentary exists, about which scenes were faked, which were real, and which real scenes were too short so they added additional and staged scenes. This scene is such a combination scene, which explains the apparently strange “camera work”. The scene from the beginning (the guy sneaking out of his car), some shots of his “relatives” and maybe some fighting scequences are added. Unfortunately, Pit Dernitz got really mauled by lions, and the differences to other movies (FoD1 is not the first one) demonstrate this. Check IMDB for Pit Dernitz death location
lol educational..
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