Shortly after its initial premiere in Italy, local authorities arrested Deodato and charged him with obscenity, then demanded all copies of the film be turned over. Since its release, it has been banned in several countries, including the UK where such films are known as ‘video nasties,’ and to this day, remains banned in some of them.Īside from those illustrious distinctions, Cannibal Holocaust finds itself set apart in another way: it had to prove it wasn’t a snuff film. The film used a found footage format long before The Blair Witch Project and features brutal killings, sexual assault, and actual violence against a variety of animals, including a turtle and monkey being killed on screen. While it’s not the goriest film ever made or the most terrifying, but it has become, in some ways, a proving ground for movie buffs.
Directed by Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust is an exemplar of the Italian horror genre in the 70s and 80s.
The fact that the film's sole spokesperson for the anti-exploitation perspective is played by porno star Richard Bolla should give an indication of where its sympathies lie.Fascination with horror movies spans generations, race, and gender, and those of us who do more than scratch the surface of the genre inevitably find one of the most renowned (or reviled) films: Cannibal Holocaust. While the film is undoubtedly gruesome enough to satisfy fans, its mixture of nauseating mondo animal slaughter, repulsive sexual violence, and pie-faced attempts at socially conscious moralizing make it rather distasteful morally as well. Advertisements claimed that "the crew who filmed it were actually devoured alive by cannibals," yet most of them were spotted alive in future unsavory gore films. They receive a scratchy film-reel containing the bloody truth from a tribe of tree-dwelling natives, and the reel's contents make up the bulk of the film.
The plot concerns the efforts of a group of American explorers to discover the fate of a missing documentary film crew. This popular bloodbath features a fetus ripped from a woman's body, people impaled on spikes, a genuine tortoise-flaying, and numerous other indignities, both real and simulated.
While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deodato who directed the subgenre's most enduring film.
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