Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust
NR | 14 June 1985 (USA)
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A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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Jeanskynebu

the audience applauded

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GurlyIamBeach

Instant Favorite.

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Smartorhypo

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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Dorathen

Better Late Then Never

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williamjpitre

That's all I have to say. Just thought I'd share. It is a good film. Obviously a classic. I saw it at a midnight showing recently, but once I watched the gore and the unsettling imagery in its entirety I decided I never wanted to eat meat again.

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sujanazadparikh

Watched this movie quite a few years back and at first I was a bit disturbed. There are a lot of scenes in the movie which I thibk will disturb a lot of people. However, after thinking over it, I found out that the director of the movie has actually shown the reality. The group that went into the Amazon to search for the missing three persons actually exploited the tribe and their traditions in various ways. As a result, the tribe revolted against them and then followed rape and murder of these people. A good movie I would say.

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Sam Panico

Cannibal Holocaust has always been a movie that by reputation that I've avoided. It's been tagged as "the one that goes all the way" and has been banned in over fifty countries. And it isn't every movie that gets confiscated ten days after its premiere with the director arrested and charged with obscenity.How much of this film was inspired by Gualtiero Jacopetti and his cycle of mondo films, like Mondo Cane, Africa Addio and Goodbye Uncle Tom. I think Deodato tips his hand toward this influence by using the music of Italian composer Riz Ortolani, whose song "More" was featured in Mondo Cane (it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1963). Ortolani's soundtrack is, well, the best part of the film. The opening song is gorgeous and lush, with only a subtle hint that all will not be well.It's hard to truly believe in the "who are the real animals" narrative when it seems like Deodato learned none of those lessons for himself. Still, I feel that films should challenge you and push you and make you think. I wouldn't recommend this film. I'm not upset that I watched it. But I know how people are about having their sensibilities threatened and this is a film that will bleed, puke and piss all over them before eating the remains.

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Smoreni Zmaj

For his work on the film, the director was arrested by Italian authorities on suspicion of murder charges and faced life in prison, following its 1980 Milan premiere. He endured a trial when Italian authorities were unconvinced that the footage was indeed staged. Deodato lost the original trial, and all prints were to be destroyed, but he managed to have the ruling overturned in the early '80s when the actors finally appeared on TV to prove otherwise.Some five years passed before the film saw release in Deodato's home country. This movie was banned for twenty years in many countries.Only for fans of disgusting footage...

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