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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
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Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 96 minutes
Actors
Robert Kerman | Francesca Ciardi | Perry Pirkanen | Luca Barbareschi | Salvatore Basile | Ricardo Fuentes | Carl Gabriel Yorke | Paolo Paoloni | Lionello Pio Di Savoia | Luigina Rocchi | Mauricio Rodríguez | Ricardo Ramírez | Guillermo Bueno | William Sánchez | Ángel Manuel García | Edgardo Maza Anaya | Lucia Costantini | Ruggero Deodato | Enrico Papa | David Sage
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/10/2015 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 5 stars |
| (Average) 5 stars |
Viewing Notes
First time! Held off on seeing this for many years based on all the things I’ve heard or read about it. Not really my thing (cannibal flicks in general aren’t my thing). Now that I’ve seen this it still is not my thing.
Figured if I was going to finally view this, doing it in 35mm at the Music Box would be ideal. It’s crazy how much of this reminded me of Eli Roth’s GREEN INFERNO. It’s as though he lifted shots and sequences directly from this movie.
It’s an ugly movie made well by Deodato (camera work and angles are nicely done). Sadly this is “oh how can we make this more shocking? Maybe we should kill live animals on film? Okay!” which seems so unnecessary to drive home the central story of these young asshats invading the rainforest to make a documentary (then killed for good reason; I’m not surprised that the media believe they were actually dead). Just so mean spirited I feel like there is nothing to gain from viewing this other than to know its place in cinema history.
I will not watch this movie again.
9 years ago
I still need to watch this, especially after having seen Green Hell.
9 years ago
It’s about what you would expect. Not one I will ever revisit but at least now I know where the term “Green Inferno” comes from.
9 years ago
Oops, yeah, Green Inferno is what I meant. I think the animal violence is what has kept me from watching it to date.
9 years ago
It’s not pleasant mainly because it’s so mean spirited. It’s not worse than any of those horrible PETA videos but the intent makes it very ugly given the context. Now I get why there are edited versions because it doesn’t need those scenes to express how despicable the characters are.