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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingRoughSuspensefulScaryTense
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- Deadly CreatureSurvivalViolence SpreeChaos and MayhemCulture ClashMurderPsychopathCrimes more...
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Genres:
- AdventureHorrorThrillerFake Documentary
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century
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- Latin AmericaJungleVillage
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- Boys' Night
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- ControversialCult
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- Film in FilmGory
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- Strong Sexual ContentNudityStrong Violent Content
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Cannibal Holocaust, 1980
English, Spanish
Italy
Profile of Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust can be described as disturbing, bleak, and tense. The plot revolves around a violence spree, chaos and mayhem, and chaos. The main genres are thriller, horror, and adventure. In terms of style, Cannibal Holocaust is a fake documentary, is a film in a film, and is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a jungle and in a village. Cannibal Holocaust is located in South America. It takes place in the 20th century. The movie has received attention for being controversial and a cult favorite. Cannibal Holocaust is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves strong sexual content, strong violent content, and nudity.
Summary of Cannibal Holocaust
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.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | Italy |
| Release date: | 19 June 1985 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Professor Harold Monroe
as Faye Daniels
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Users Reviews
- 03.August.2010
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- by: Ric Jones
- Ric Jones rated this movie
8/10Great
