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Primitive savagery meets the brutality of the modern world in Ruggero Deodato’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 America’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. —Shameless Screen Entertainment

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Ruggero Deodato

Growing up in Rome’s Parioli region, home to many of Italian cinema’s most notable figures of the 1950s, Ruggero Deodato naturally found an interest in cinema, as his friendship with the son of director Roberto Rossellini led to an assistant director job on Il Generale della Rovere in 1959. Over the next eight years, Deodato’s talents led him to assist on more than 40 films for such luminaries as Mauro Bolognini, Riccardo Freda, and Joseph Losey, and in 1968 he was rewarded with his first official film as director, Fenomenal e il Tesoro di Tutankamen (earlier, he had completed the direction of Antonio Margheriti’s 1964 film Ursus il Terrore dei Kirghisi but his contributions were uncredited). Deodato dabbled in many different genres over his lengthy career, from romantic dramas (L’Ultimo Sapore dell’Aria) to violent police thrillers (Uomini si Nasce, Poliziotti si Muore) to disaster epics (Concorde Affair ‘79), but it is in the realm of ultraviolent horror that he is best known. Creator… read more

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sewslow

27Apr13

After watching this under the pretenses that I had been needing to watch more films like this, I found myself feeling like I don't very much want to see more films like this.

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Neo-Gloom

19Feb13

the citizen kane of cannibal movies

sewslow and amin like this

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novanindro

1Dec12

ive watched it so many times but still find it rad.cannibal holocaust is the farthest edge of Extreme Cinema

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CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST Blu-ray Review

By Twitchfilm.com on November 21, 2011
Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust is among the most polarizing films in cinema history. The brutal display of savagery among the fame hungry camera crew and the real life violence against animals on
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Hey UK! Catch Deodato's New Edit Of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST at CINE EXCESS V!

By Twitchfilm.com on May 12, 2011
The Cine Excess International Conference On Global Cult Film returns to the Odeon Covent Garden in London this year, with exclusive screenings, special guests and lively debate. Cine Excess V – Subverting
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An important and irresponsible piece of filmmaking

By Kevin T on May 2, 2010

I found this film to be extremely powerful and haunting. This film was and still is extremely controversial mainly due to the legitimate killings of live animals on-screen. The remainder of the violence…  read review

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By Christo​pher Smith on November 15, 2009

The notorious cult classic masterwork of the short-lived “cannibal” sub-genre of 70s Italian exploitation films actually lives up to its shocking reputation – it works both as a disturbing and surreal…  read review

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