Cannibal Holocaust (DVD)

Cannibal films have always had something of a reputation problem, at least in the UK where they were an integral part of the problems which lead to the introduction of strict national censorship laws in the early 1980s which have only been very slightly relaxed to this day. Cannibal Holocaust was one of the films at the very centre of this furore, and remains totally banned in this country — in fact, of all the films customs officials look out for when checking packages of films entering the country, Cannibal Holocaust is considered to be one of the top priorities for seizure. I have to admit, this reputation is not wholly undeserved. The film features ...  Read the complete review

Made in the age of the video nasty, Italian director Ruggero Deodato's gory 1980 exploitation flick 'Cannibal Holocaust' is extremely graphic but considerably more intelligent than I had expected. Predating the Blair Witch Project by almost twenty years, the film supposedly consists of recovered footage taken by a group of anthropologists making a television documentary on a cannibal tribe in the darkest depths of the Amazonian jungle. It begins with a group of film executives viewing the recovered reels, and jumps to increasingly graphic footage of the recovered footage, flashback-style, as the film progresses. There are graphic depictions of the ...  Read the complete review

Frequently touted as "the most controversial movie ever made", Ruggero Deodato's 'Cannibal Holocaust' has earned legions of fans on both sides of the fence of acceptability. Some hail it as a modern horror masterpiece and a prime example of the video nasty sub genre; others dismiss it as exploitative, derivative, cruel and sensationalist and to an extent, both groups are right. The film has been mistaken for a snuff movie so many times that Deodato once had to take his entire cast with him to court to prove that they were still alive and this isn't even the thing that the film is most infamous for - the reason why its (allegedly) been banned in over fifty ...  Read the complete review

I'm not altogether sure how to write about this film - I have somewhat mixed feelings about it. We're into hard core video nasty territory here, and it's difficult to know exactly how to review a film that fits so firmly into one of the least reputable film sub-cultures of all time. This film was one of many exploitative horror movies that were banned in the UK in the mid-80s. A bit of history for you: before the 1985 video recordings act it was legal to release on video anything that the distributors could get their grubby little hands on. In the early 80s the big film studios didn't release films on video, so video companies had to sift through the dregs ...  Read the complete review

This review is about the full uncut version of the Italian shocker directed by Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust. It starts of with a professor (Robert Kerman) preparing to go into the jungle, known as the Green Inferno, to try and find 4 filmmakers (Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi and Salvatore Basile)who disappeared whilst making a documentary on the Green Inferno, home to three cannibal tribes. The arrive and watch a cannibal punishing his wife for adultery, they then capture a cannibal and allow them to lead them to their home. When they arrive the cannibals seem frightened by them but they offer them some gift and stay there. At the tribal home ...  Read the complete review