Jack Anders

who he is and what he looks like

Age: 37 Height: 6'2" Weight: 185 Hair: blond and blonde mustache Eyes: blue Marital Status: married (one child) D.O.B.: 8-29-42 Birthplace: Mercer, Tennessee, U.S.A. Residence: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. Occupation: Camera Operator/Director of Photography Education: B.A. NYU Film school & Mercer County Community College Hobbies: Hunting, fishing, drinking beer, plays drums for a local Newark punk band "The Monsters", pursuing the opposite sex NOTE: best friends with Mark Tomaso and Alan Yates

background

Jack Anders had worked very closely with Alan Yates for many years as a cinematographer and camera operator. Together with Mark Tomaso, the three had become very close working companions. Although Alan Yates was known for being very exacting in his quest for the right footage, and practically demanding blood from his film crew, Jack Anders followed him across the world like a happy lap dog. He would have done anything to get the shot. Jack Anders was born and raised in rural Tennessee in the area where they shot the film "Walking Tall." He later moved to the east coast, specifically downtown Manhattan, where he met and married a college sweetheart, Elizabeth Meyer. Together they moved across the bridge to nearby Newark, New Jersey. Married for two years, they have one son, Geoff, who is three years old.

crimes

Mass murder Snuff filming Arson Torture Rape Animal cruelty Abuse Poaching Terrorism Incrimination

goals

help film and help Alan yates become famous so he can leave his wife and son and have a house and be rich

hobbies

Helping Alan Yates stage atrocities in order to make his documentaries more "exciting". Burning things and people alive. Dehumanizing the Ya̧nomamö Tribe. Raping others. Murdering others. Hunting. Fishing. Drinking beer. Drumming.

in the film

Jack is a cameraman working with Alan Yates, who also has a job as a drummer for the punk band "The Monsters". He has a wife and son, but his wife notes that he was often absent and emotionally distant, spending most of his time with Alan and the rest of the crew. In 1979, Jack, alongside Alan, Mark, and Faye Daniels disappear while traveling through the Amazon Rainforest in order to shoot a documentary about the natives living there. Anthropologist Harold Monroe leads an expedition to find them, only to find their remains, along with the film they shot, being kept among the Ya̧nomamö Tribe. Monroe manages to negotiate with the tribe and get the film back. The footage reveals that while going through the forest, the crew’s guide, Felipe, was bitten by a snake. The crew then proceeded to amputate his leg and leave him for dead. After a while, they capture, kill, and mutilate a turtle for food. Eventually, they come across the Yacumo Tribe, and Jack shoots one of them in the leg so they can easily follow him to their village. There, Jack, alongside the rest of the crew, proceed to terrorize the natives and force them into a hut, which they set on fire in order to stage a massacre, with Jack filming the whole time. Afterward, the crew come across a Ya̧nomamö girl, and Jack, Alan, and Mark gang-rape her, while Faye tries to intervene. Jack and Alan insist on filming the rape taking place. The crew then find the same Ya̧nomamö girl impaled on a pole by a riverbank, saying the natives must’ve killed her as part of a ritual (although it’s implied that they were the ones who killed her). The natives, in retaliation, attack the crew.

personality

Jack has a very perverted personality, displayed early on in the film when he records Faye while she’s nude, ignoring her objections. This is amplified later on when he, Alan, and Mark rape the native girl, and he and Alan insist on filming it despite Faye's objections, claiming that they shouldn't waste any film as they only have three cans left, and calls the three of them "stupid men" after thinking Jack want's to film the rape for a porn film. He also shares the same sadistic and psychopathic tendencies as Alan and Mark, shown when he helps them murder the Yacumo tribe, and films it all. Despite this, he isn't as evil as them if only because he didn't do much to stand out beyond partaking in most of their crimes.