Alan Yates

"Here we are at the end of the world in human history. Things like this happen all the time in the jungle. It's survival of the fittest. In the jungle, it's the daily violence of the strong overcoming the weak!"

- Alan Yates

Alan Yates is the main antagonist as well as the main protagonist villain of the 1980 extremely controversial Italian exploitation film Cannibal Holocaust.

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History
Alan Yates was a documentary filmmaker who would travel around the world with his crew (Jack, Mark, and Faye), orchestrating atrocities and filming them, passing them off as “documentaries”.

In 1979, Alan and his crew traveled to a remote rainforest. Once they arrived there, they first decapitated and mutilated a turtle. They then proceeded to force an entire native tribe into huts and set the huts on fire, burning the natives to death. When they located the “Tree People”, they kidnapped one of the native women and gang raped her. Once they were done, they “discovered” that she had been killed by the other natives as punishment for losing her virginity. Alan callously laughed at her corpse, one of several signs strongly implying that he was the one who killed her and framed the natives for the deed.

When the natives finally had enough of Alan and his crew, they decided to end the crew once and for all. They first threw a spear at Jack. Alan simply responded by shooting him, allowing the natives to butcher and kill him. Next, they captured Faye. Alan initially tried to save her, but Mark convinced him to do otherwise. The two remaining members of the crew filmed the natives raping, beating, and decapitating her. Finally, the natives confronted and killed Alan and Mark, presumably from beating and stabbing them. The remains of the crew and their camera were held in a shrine to contain their evil.

A while later, Professor Harold Monroe and his search crew discovered the remains of Alan and his crew, along with all the footage that they filmed. After viewing the footage, Monroe realized just how much of a monster Alan truly was. He showed the footage to executives in New York, to which the executives responded by having the footage burned. Monroe questioned himself who the real savages were.

What Makes Him Pathetic?

 * He and his film crew:
 * Filmed "The Last Road to Hell", which depicts actual executions in Uganda and Vietnam.
 * Burned down an entire village full of cannibals, children included.
 * Gangraped a native girl, leading to her getting shishkebabed by her tribe as punishment for having premarital sex. It's also possible that the film crew killed her themselves to frame said tribe, as Alan can barely conceal his own laughter at the gruesome sight.
 * He shot his friend Jack and then abandoned his girlfriend Faye to the surrounding cannibals to save his own skin, thus subverting his only redeeming quality.

What Makes Him a Pinhead?

 * Provoking a cannibal tribe with low firepower results in Alan and his friends all dying horribly.
 * He stupidly decides to film Jack and Faye getting slaughtered by the cannibals instead of running away.