Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
On a mission that looks even more terrifying in the forests, where the operation is a rescue mission in the Amazon rainforest. There, a professor stumbles through a film filmed by a missing documentary crew. A rescue mission may be dangerous when a man discovers that there is another cannibal scientist who can transcend his most blunt imaginations and create havoc everywhere in the forest.
23 November 1952, Burbank, California, USA
7 May 1939, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
28 July 1956, Montevideo, Uruguay
24 July 1929, Bodio, Ticino, Switzerland
April 7, 1945 in Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy
November 16, 2009
Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it
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.
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.
March 20, 2010
This is, bar none, the most revolting, weird and disturbing cannibal film I have ever seen.
November 14, 2011
[VIDEO ESSAY] Apart from being a truly disturbing film, "Cannibal Holocaust" serves up a cold plate of scathing social commentary.
October 24, 2007
The completely heinous nature of the film...is exposed through its own inconsistencies.
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.
