Cannibal Corpse: How Jim Carrey & Ace Ventura Helped Propel The Band's Career

Cannibal Corpse: The story of how the band ended up in Ace Ventura to perform their song Hammer Smashed Face.

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Despite being panned by critics the 1994 film Ace Ventura Pet Detective was instrumental in launching comedian Jim Carrey’s movie career. Apart from helping Jim Carrey’s career the film was also important in increasing the popularity of Death Metal legands Cannibal Corpse who also appeared in the film at the request of the comedian. Today lets talk about how the band ended up in the film, what happened afterwards and is jim carrey a metal head?

The film Ace Ventura Pet Detective saw Jim Carrey’s character trying to find out who stole the football team the Miami Dolphin’s mascot. In addition to Carrey the film would star real life Miami Dolphin’s quarterback Dan Marino and Friends actress Courtney Cox. The film would be director Tom Shaydac’s directorial debut and he was given a pretty small budget of under $20M. There were a lot of gambles during the filming. Actor jim carrey was mostly known from standup and his appearance on the show in living colour. How would he translate to the big screen, especially considering he improvised a lot of the scenes. It was a sentiment that carry shared with the LA Times in 1994 while promoting the film revealing

“"I knew this movie was going to either be something that people really went for, or it was going to ruin me completely,"”

Carrey would admit to Arsenio Hall in an interview a few years before the film came out that he found himself fascinated by metal as you can see here.

According to Barney Greenway of napalm death carrey reportedly asked for napalm death to be in the film, but it wasn’t clear what happened to the request so cannibal corpse was next in line. By 1994 Cannibal Corpse was still up and coming at the time, even though they had already recorded 3 albums and they wouldn’t have an album on the US charts until 1996’s Vile.

The band has always been controversial amongst politicians and even entire countries. Former U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman both called them out in his campaign speech. Dole claimed the band and i quote “undermines the national character of the United States” “mindless violence and loveless sex,”Dole’s aide later confirmed that he’s actually never listened to any of their music.

CC wasn’t allowed to play any songs off their first 3 albums [1990’s Eaten Back to Life, 1991 Butchered at Birth and 1992’s Tomb of the Mutilated] in Germany until 2006. Their albums were banned from sale in Australia until that same year and according to vice the band was kicked out of russia several times for inciting religious division

The band has also faced heat from the russian government and had numerous shows canceled within the countries bordersfor and i quote “inciting religious division.” [source: vice]

Getting back to the movie and the band. Carrey had made a special request for the film to include the band and while the band was honored to get the offer they didn’t want to be made fun of or put in a comedic light. Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz telling Vice in 2015 “We got a call from our record label, Metal Blade, saying that they’d got a call from Jim Carrey’s people saying that he wanted us to be in this movie he was making," "Of course, that’s not a call you’re expecting to get. It just didn’t compute, you know? But it was a phone call, simple as that." The drummer would admit that he was a fan of carrey from his in living colour days going on to say
"We’re a brutal death metal band, and we’re serious about what we do. This seemed like it would be a cool opportunity, but we didn’t want to be made to look like fools or to be laughed at," t "But they assured us that we were going to be portrayed as Cannibal Corpse - they weren’t gonna make fun of us."
Originally the band turned down the offer b