Cannibal Holocaust poster

Cannibal Holocaust( 1980)

TV-MAHorror
63%
User
Score

They eat and they are eaten!

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Robert Kerman

      Professor Harold Monroe

    2. cast image

      Francesca Ciardi

      Faye Daniels

    3. cast image

      Perry Pirkanen

      Jack Anders

    4. cast image

      Luca Barbareschi

      Mark Tomaso

    5. cast image

      Salvatore Basile

      Chaco Losojos

    6. cast image

      Ricardo Fuentes

      Miguel Lujan

    7. cast image

      Carl Gabriel Yorke

      Alan Yates

    8. cast image

      Paolo Paoloni

      1st Executive

    9. cast image

      Lionello Pio Di Savoia

      2nd Executive

    10. cast image

      Luigina Rocchi

    11. cast image

      Mauricio Rodríguez

    12. cast image

      Ricardo Ramírez

    13. cast image

      Guillermo Bueno

    14. cast image

      William Sánchez

    15. cast image

      Ángel Manuel García

    16. cast image

      Edgardo Maza Anaya

    17. cast image

      Lucia Costantini

      Adulteress (uncredited)

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      Ruggero Deodato

      Man Sitting in NYU Campus (uncredited)

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      Enrico Papa

      Pantheon Interviewer (uncredited)

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      David Sage

      Alan's Father (uncredited)

    Social

    Review 1Discussion

    A review by testr

    7
    Written by testr on Tue Jul 12 2022
    "If hellholes like this didn't exist, I'm sure you would invent one" This film is almost, but not quite, exactly what the lurid title would suggest. It's definitely going for shocks as its primary source of horror, with a lot of this being truly hard to watch (I saw the uncut version, with animal cruelty intact, and I can see why they're cut from most versions, although there is a certain level of hypocrisy in condemning those scenes if you eat meat - and I doubt everyone who has ever criticised it were all vegetarian or vegan - unless you think that what goes on in slaughterhouses is any ki...

    Media

    Videos 3Backdrops 18Posters 62

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    100000.00

    Revenue

    2000000.00

    Keywords

    • adultery
    • rape
    • snake
    • pig
    • culture clash
    • ritual
    • movie business
    • leech
    • spider
    • animal attack
    • controversy
    • swamp
    • tribe
    • vomit
    • amazon rainforest
    • film in film
    • human sacrifice
    • jungle
    • torture
    • rape and murder
    • brutality
    • cannibal
    • hatchet
    • south america
    • filmmaking
    • missing person
    • fake documentary
    • misogyny
    • ritual sacrifice
    • found footage
    • documentary filmmaking
    • tortoise
    • video nasty
    • lost footage
    • animal cruelty
    • amazon tribe
    • vomiting woman
    • abused woman
    • film within a film
    • adulterous wife
    • film censorship
    • film industry
    • guerilla filmmaking
    • banned film
    • disemboweling
    • film reel
    • yacomo