Other Titles • Cannibal Holocaust (1980) • Nackt und zerfleischt (1981)
Synopses for Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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**WARNING: Due to its SHOCKING and VIOLENT subject matter No one under 17 should view this film.** The Deluxe Edition comes in different packaging than the original release. Banned and heavily censored the world over, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shot-gun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the "found footage" of a group of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. This footage is so intense, so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of Cannibal Holocaust were arrested upon its original release and the film seized. Nothing you have seen before will prepare you for this uncompromising masterpiece of cinematic nihilism. Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing proudly present the definitive release of the most controversial movie ever made!
(23 votes)
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Product Description CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the 'found footage' of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The footage is so intense so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of Cannibal Holocaust were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.
Widely acknowledged as the uncredited inspiration for 'THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT', Cannibal Holocaust is essential to every video store's retail and rental selection. This definitive version of Deodato's masterwork ranks with the most highly anticipated and sourght after DVD releases in the history of the medium. Not for the weak of stomach, the film's horrifying power cannot be denied.
Be forwarned: This is the one that goes ALL THE WAY!
(22 votes)
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CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST was for years reviled as one of the most repugnant and morally questionable of the 1970s spate of cannibal films--and possibly the most horrifying ever. But director Ruggero Deodato embarked upon the project with the intention of criticizing the very violence he was portraying. Set in the Amazonian jungles, the film is a pseudo-documentary that follows Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman) into the "Green Inferno" as he searches for a documentary crew that came to the jungle the previous year to make a film about the storied cannibals that lived there, and never made it back. Now, Moore meets some natives and discovers the footage from the crew's expedition, and upon returning to New York, he watches it to find out what really happened. The truth is too horrible for words, proving that savagery is not limited to indigenous peoples, and the morally outrageous film proceeds to indict the exploitative practices of certain documentary practices. However, the extremity of the violence portrayed was enough to put Deodato in hot water with the law, and with censors who claimed it was far too realistic. The career of the promising director, who had worked under a list of Italian luminaries that included Roberto Rossellini (ROME: OPEN CITY, PAISAN, VOYAGE IN ITALY), was essentially ended with this brutal, seminal film--for which he will nonetheless always be remembered.
(20 votes)
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In the beginning, we meet a documentary team of three young men and a young woman. They are heading for the South American jungle in search of real cannibals. After the crew is reported missing, a rescue team is sent from the U.S. The team makes contact with an Amazon tribe called the Tree-people, who give them the only remains of the first crew - with rolls of film containing the material shot during their search. Back in the States these films are shown, revealing the carnage suffered by the first crew.
(20 votes)
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BANNED IN THE UK SINCE 1982!
In 1979 four documentary filmmakers disappeared in the jungles of South America while shooting a film about cannibalism...
Six months later the New York University, along with the Pan American Broadcasting Corporation, sent a search team in looking for the film makers.
They could never have been prepared for what they found!!!
Owing to the harrowing and graphic nature of the film, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST has been banned in over 50 countries and has achieved a notoriety surpassed by no other horror movie.
Paying compliment to Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece, other film makers have tried to imitate but all have failed.
Better to be in the warm body of a friend than in a cold hole in the ground...
(20 votes)
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