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Cannibal Holocaust

  • 1980
  • Unrated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Primitive savagery meets the brutality of the modern world in Ruggero DeodatoÂ’s timeless slice of visceral horror - Cannibal Holocaust, a film so violent and depraved that the director was charged with killing his own cast!

Anthropologist Harold Munroe is hellbound as he travels into the green inferno of South AmericaÂ’s rainforest in an attempt to find a documentary crew lost months before. Instead of survivors he discovers a world of cannibalistic excess beyond his wildest imaginings but when he returns home and screens the footage left behind by the eviscerated filmmakers, chaos erupts as the screen is filled with some of most disturbing images ever committed to celluloid.
The ultimate video nasty, is now presented as never experienced before, remastered in HD from original sources, and with the 1st ever DirectorÂ’s New Edit, it reminds us why it is still THE most controversial film ever!

It inlcudes: • 2 Films:
1- CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
2- CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, 1ST EVER DIRECTORÂ’S RE-EDI
• 2 Presentations by the director Ruggero Deodato
• 2 Exclusive Shameless Programmes:
1- “FILM AND BE  DAMNED”: shocking revelations about the film by its participants
2- “THE LONG ROAD BACK FROM HELL”: in depth reappraisal of the film and the new critical applauds it receives from today’s cutting-edge film makers and critics.
• Theatrical trailer 
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Available on Blu-ray & DVD with Shameless Screen Enetrtainment from 26.09.2011
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During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

  • Director
    • Ruggero Deodato
  • Writers
    • Gianfranco Clerici
    • Giorgio Stegani
  • Stars
    • Robert Kerman
    • Francesca Ciardi
    • Perry Pirkanen
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
    58K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,413
    200
    • Director
      • Ruggero Deodato
    • Writers
      • Gianfranco Clerici
      • Giorgio Stegani
    • Stars
      • Robert Kerman
      • Francesca Ciardi
      • Perry Pirkanen
    • 648User reviews
    • 246Critic reviews
    • 22Metascore
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    Salvatore Basile and Ruggero Deodato in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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    Carl Gabriel Yorke in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
    Carl Gabriel Yorke in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
    Perry Pirkanen in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
    Robert Kerman and Kate Weiman in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

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    Robert Kerman
    Robert Kerman
    • Professor Harold Monroe
    Francesca Ciardi
    Francesca Ciardi
    • Faye Daniels
    Perry Pirkanen
    Perry Pirkanen
    • Jack Anders
    Luca Barbareschi
    Luca Barbareschi
    • Mark Tomaso
    • (as Luca Giorgio Barbareschi)
    Salvatore Basile
    Salvatore Basile
    • Chaco
    Ricardo Fuentes
    Carl Gabriel Yorke
    Carl Gabriel Yorke
    • Alan Yates
    • (as Gabriel Yorke)
    Paolo Paoloni
    Paolo Paoloni
    • 3rd Executive
    Lionello Pio Di Savoia
    • 2nd Executive
    • (as Pio Di Savoia)
    Luigina Rocchi
    Eva Bravo
    • Adulteress
    • (uncredited)
    Ruggero Deodato
    Ruggero Deodato
    • Man sitting in NYU Campus
    • (uncredited)
    Guillermo
    • Felipe Ocaña
    • (uncredited)
    Enrico Papa
    • Pantheon Interviewer
    • (uncredited)
    David Sage
    • Alan's Father
    • (uncredited)
    Kate Weiman
    Kate Weiman
    • 1st Executive
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ruggero Deodato
    • Writers
      • Gianfranco Clerici
      • Giorgio Stegani
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    • Trivia
      Ten days after its premiere in Milan, the film was seized by the Italian courts and director Ruggero Deodato was arrested and charged with obscenity. He was later charged with murdering several actors on camera and faced life in prison. The cast had signed contracts requiring them to disappear for a year after shooting to maintain the illusion that they had died. Deodato contacted Luca Barbareschi and told him to contact the three other actors who played the missing film team. When the actors appeared in court, alive and well, the murder charges were dropped.
    • Goofs
      The snake that bites the jungle guide in his boot is said to be venomous. It is actually a boa constrictor, a non-venomous snake that kills its prey by constriction.
    • Quotes

      Professor Harold Monroe: I wonder who the real cannibals are.

    • Crazy credits
      The Grindhouse Releasing (USA) and Siren Visual (Australia) DVDs/Blu-rays omit the United Artists Europa logo in favor of a text crawl regarding the film's violent content: "The following motion picture contains intense scenes of extreme violence and cruelty. As distributors of this film, we wish to state with absolute sincerity that by no means do we condone the artistic decisions employed by the makers of this film. However, as firm believers in the constitutional right of free speech, we do not believe in censorship. To quote Thomas Jefferson, 'it behooves every man who values the liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasion of it in the case of others.' Therefore, we are presenting CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST for the first time in its uncut, uncensored original form, with all sequences photographed by the filmmakers, however offensive and repugnant, presented fully intact. What you will see will definitely shock and offend you. Nonetheless, it should be viewed as a disturbing historical document of a bygone era of extreme irresponsibility which no longer exists, and, hopefully, will never exist again. 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - George Santayana"
    • Alternate versions
      The Grindhouse Releasing re-release, as well as the 2005 DVD, features a scrolling warning before the film from the company stating that the film is uncut and uncensored and while they do not support the "artistic decisions" of the film, they do support free speech. It also plays part of Riz Ortolani's music score in the background.
    • Connections
      Edited into Through Eyes of the Dead (1999)

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    7/10
    The Blair Witch's grandfather
    It's impossible to talk about Cannibal Holocaust without mentioning The Blair Witch Project. Blair Witch is (wrongly) labelled as 'inventing' the 'found footage' genre, when, in fact it simply 'rebooted' it. Cannibal Holocaust did it almost twenty years previous.

    We hear at the beginning how four young film-makers travelled deep into the jungle, only to never be heard from again. A professor, curious as to their fate, retraces their path and finds their footage. What you have here is two stories in one. You have the more 'traditional' Hollywood story-telling of the professor talking to TV executives about showing the found footage on network television and the footage which was retrieved from the jungles (first person, ala Blair Witch).

    I only got to see the edited UK version of this film, but the footage, both from the professor who follows them and the film-makers themselves remains as shocking today as it was at the time. Cannibal Holocaust was banned at the time of release and even had claims of being a 'stuff' film (i.e. one where real people are killed on camera). This maybe untrue, but viewers should be warned that, although the people who die are all just covered in fake blood and prosthetics, REAL animals were killed for the making of the film. Those with strong views on this may wish to steer clear.

    However, the animal cruelty is only fleeting. What you have are pretty strong scenes of torture which make the Hostel franchise seem tame in comparison. The footage, being shot in the eighties and on 'non professional' cameras, gives the film a deliberately 'raw' feel about it which even the Blair Witch Project can't even match. Plus you have the music which is both creepy and tranquil at the same time.

    As you have probably guessed, the film-makers (on film) meet a grisly end at the hands (and teeth, obviously) of the cannibals in the jungle. Although, where we probably felt sorry for those behind the camera in Blair Witch and other such films, here the film-makers were pretty horrible. Some may see that they got what they deserved.

    It's hard to 'enjoy' this film in a traditional viewing sense. Yet it remains a deserved lynchpin in the horror genre's history.

    Bottom line: for those with strong stomachs ONLY.

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    • Is 'Cannibal Holocaust' based on a book?
    • Was this really filmed in the Amazon?

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    • Release date
      • June 21, 1985 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official sites
      • Grindhouse Releasing
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust
    • Filming locations
      • Amazon Rainforest, Colombia
    • Production company
      • F.D. Cinematografica
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    • Budget
      • $100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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