Cannibal Holocaust Poster

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

NR 02/07/1980 Horror 1h 36m
63%
User
Score
5.8/10
65%
22/100

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.

Ruggero Deodato

Director

Gianfranco Clerici

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Robert Kerman

Robert Kerman

Professor Harold Monroe

Francesca Ciardi

Francesca Ciardi

Faye Daniels

Perry Pirkanen

Perry Pirkanen

Jack Anders

Luca Barbareschi

Luca Barbareschi

Mark Tomaso

Salvatore Basile

Salvatore Basile

Chaco Losojos

Ricardo Fuentes

Ricardo Fuentes

Miguel Lujan

Carl Gabriel Yorke

Carl Gabriel Yorke

Alan Yates

Paolo Paoloni

Paolo Paoloni

1st Executive

Lionello Pio Di Savoia

Lionello Pio Di Savoia

2nd Executive

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Media

Invitation To Dinner

Invitation To Dinner

Stuart Gordon on CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

Stuart Gordon on CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Theatrical Trailer

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Theatrical Trailer

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Reviews

A review by testr

Written on July 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 kinder that the animal slaughter depicted in this film, or that recording it somehow makes a moral difference), and has well earned its reputation for brutality. However, there's a deeper element to th...

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