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19 June 1985 (USA) moreTagline:
Ripout! Barbeque! Devour! How long can you take it? morePlot:
An anthropologist heads a rescue party into the South American jungle to find a missing film team making a documentary on cannibal tribes but can only return with their footage, which reveals their crueler intentions. full summary | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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[DVD Review] The Dead (From JustPressPlay. 6 November 2009, 2:08 PM, PST)
25 Most Disturbing Movies #8: Cannibal Holocaust
(From GreenCine. 6 November 2009, 11:07 AM, PST)
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Terminal cinema more (441 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Robert Kerman | ... | Harold Monroe | |
| Francesca Ciardi | ... | Faye Daniels | |
| Perry Pirkanen | ... | Jack Anders | |
| Luca Barbareschi | ... | Mark Tomaso (as Luca Giorgio Barbareschi) | |
| Salvatore Basile | ... | Chaco Losojos | |
| Ricardo Fuentes | ... | Felipe Ocanya | |
| Carl Gabriel Yorke | ... | Alan Yates (as Gabriel Yorke) | |
| Paolo Paoloni | ... | Chief NY Executive | |
| Lionello Pio Di Savoia | ... | Executive (as Pio Di Savoia) | |
| Luigina Rocchi | ... | Native |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
95 min | UK:89 min (heavily cut) | USA:90 min (animal cruelty-free version) | Canada:86 min (Québec)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Norway:18 (re-rating: 2005) (uncut) | Singapore:(Banned) | Australia:(Banned) (1984-2005) | Norway:(Banned) (1984-2005) | Italy:VM18 (re-rating: 1984) | Finland:(Banned) (1984-2001) | Hong Kong:III | Japan:R-18 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Sweden:18 (video rating, cut) | UK:18 (re-rating: 2001) (heavily cut) | UK:X (self applied: 1981) | Philippines:(Banned) | New Zealand:(Banned) (2006) | Denmark:16 | Brazil:18 | Mexico:D | France:-16 (original rating) | Australia:R (re-rating: 2005) (uncut) | Germany:18 (heavily cut) | Ireland:18 (re-rating: 2006) | Ireland:(Banned) (1984-2006) | Finland:K-18 (re-rating: 2001) | South Africa:18 | France:-16 | France:-18 (DVD) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) (re-rating, uncut) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Sweden:15 (uncut DVD version) | Germany:Not Rated (uncut DVD version) | Italy:VM18 (1980, cut) | Iceland:(Banned) | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | UK:(Banned) (1984-2001) | USA:Open (rating surrendered: 1985) | USA:X | West Germany:(Banned) | Canada:R | Italy:(Banned) (1980-1984) | USA:Unrated | Germany:BPjM RestrictedFun Stuff
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Though uncaring towards the nature of his film during shooting, Ruggero Deodato now regrets everything he did, mostly the actual animal killings. He said once that he wishes now that he never made the movie. moreGoofs:
Miscellaneous: When Faye has got a spider on her shoulder, she is screaming and talking at the same time. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Reporter: Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.
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The second word in the title is important. Ruggero Deodato's 1979 meta-snuff movie, far more than a chichi trinket like THE NIGHT PORTER, is the real Holocaust porn. Here the trigger is not frights, or even shocks, or even splatter. Atrocity is the name of Deodato's game--and the genius of this monsterpiece is that Deodato horrifyingly delivers the goods at the same time he coruscates his audience and himself.
This is a hard movie to recommend to any but those who would find it anyway; but it must be said that Deodato here created the most rigorous, critical, almost philosophical movie in the Italian horror canon. The audience's lust for Third World exoticism and envelope-pushing violence are gratified and held up to the painful light of day--and not necessarily in that order. The overwhelming feeling of this picture is of a pornographer pleading, "Stop me before I shoot again."
The conceit of the movie--an academic's journey into the Amazon to find the remains of a Western film crew devoured by cannibals--permits Deodato more Pirandellian boxes within boxes than a double bill of BLOWUP and THE PLAYER. But the atmosphere of the movie, despite scenes of cruelty so extreme you sometimes want to put out your eyeballs, is relentlessly elegiac--capped by Riz Ortolani's theme music. (It can be said with certainty that no romantic ballad was ever used underneath what Deodato stages here.)
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST is the farthest edge of Extreme Cinema--as in Extreme Sports. It feels stuntlike, yet the combination of amplified bloodlust and world-weary regret is unique. Like Lucio Fulci's even more personal CAT IN THE BRAIN, it's an affecting enactment of an exploitation artist's conscience tearing apart.
It might make good viewing for Y2K Eve: it puts together the century's two salient words--holocaust and entertainment--as no other film did before or since.