Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
When it comes to a rescue mission, everything will look very exciting. The mission begins in the Amazon Rain forest and is performed by a professor during a film filmed by a missing documentary crew inside the forest. While searching and digging to find clues to reach the crew, the man discovers that there is a great world of cannibals that seems more dangerous, brutal and possibly even more savage, creating a state of terror and destruction within that forest.
7 May 1939, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
April 7, 1945 in Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy
24 July 1929, Bodio, Ticino, Switzerland
28 July 1956, Montevideo, Uruguay
23 November 1952, Burbank, California, USA
16 December 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
October 24, 2007
The completely heinous nature of the film...is exposed through its own inconsistencies.
November 14, 2011
[VIDEO ESSAY] Apart from being a truly disturbing film, "Cannibal Holocaust" serves up a cold plate of scathing social commentary.
November 16, 2009
Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it
September 08, 2010
Basically perfect: it achieves its goals in virtually every respect. Deodato made a movie whose purpose is to make me feel awful, and I do.
July 05, 2014
Rough, but it's an interesting type of sensationalism from a (thankfully) bygone production era. It's not a film to be enjoyed, but it certainly offers a singular genre bite that's impressively gonzo.
May 27, 2006
It may be the nastiest of the Video Nasties.
June 26, 2014
An enormous master work from Ruggero Deodato whose own film has pretty much guaranteed to outlive its creator.
March 20, 2010
This is, bar none, the most revolting, weird and disturbing cannibal film I have ever seen.
June 24, 2006
Its pointed attack on exploitative film-making seems somewhat rich in the circumstances, but this is well made, uniquely unpleasant and almost deserving of its huge cult status.
