Cannibal Holocaust (DVD) Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust is an extremely grisly, highly controversial film about a group of four documentarians who travel into the jungle of the Amazon Rainforest to film indigenous tribes. Unfortunately, they didn't quite expect what came to them - a violent and bloody end. The footage was found, though, and the rest of the film ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Cannibal Holocaust is thirty years old and one of these notorious "banned" films that you find you always want to watch just to see what the fuss was about. Unlike the other films in this genre that I have watched and have been a little disappointed, I completely understand why this particular movie was banned. Even attempting to write ...  Read the complete review

Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust is one of the greatest horror films ever made. It is also one of the most controversial, most distressing, most contradictory, most infuriating and most incendiary. Divided into two distinct sections, the film first depicts the attempts by anthropologist Harold Monroe to track down a documentary crew who went ...  Read the complete review

The film can be downloaded from napster. Although their master server was shut down the private server that uses the same ports that were set up for the master server!!! If you download the napster software or a clone from download.com you can then log on to napster.quality-movies.com. Once there you can search for the film title and ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I'm not usually the sort of person who's easily shocked. Violence and gore in a movie doesn't particularly bother me. Cannibal Holocaust is the first film in a long time to genuinely shock me. I'll be honest, I wasn't ever scared by this film, but this is genuine horror, as in horrifying. Perhaps you might ...  Read the complete review

Cannibal Holocaust is a liberal's nightmare. It is a film that is nearly impossible to defend because of the real animals being killed for the camera, even the director Ruggero Deodato says that he regrets that part of the film. It is a film which is important though. At once a gore cash-in and an attack of the 'mondo' documentry ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I had mixed feelings before watching this film. Some say its a masterpiece of the horror genre while others say it is sick and disgusting. I'd have to say after watching this myself I think overall the film is quite good, it is very realistic and when it was released it would have been an original idea. The first half of the film is really ...  Read the complete review

'Banned in 13 countries !' screams the video sleeve. I'm not sure if they can actually back this up, but for once, the claim may actually be justified. This is the film you mother warned you about. This is not a very easy film to review, since its kind of hard to justify it as entertainment in the normal filmic sense. But for ...  Read the complete review

I did answer who this is suited for because I don't think that it is suitable for anyone! Now I have said it before and I shall say it again, I am not a fan of horror, and quite frankly, this film confirmed for me, to the point where I could no longer watch it (was wasn't long into it either really). I bet there are going to be ...  Read the complete review

THE FILM A documentary team enter the jungle in search of cannibals and are never heard from again. A second team goes out in search of the youngsters, and finds their dead bodies, along with some unopened cans of film. When they bring the film back to civilisation and watch it, they find themselves confronted with indisputable ...  Read the complete review

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, ...  Read the complete review

I'd like to start this opinion by saying that this is the only movie banned in the UK which I agree *should* be banned. As an opponent of censorship, that's not a good thing to say, but I'll explain... A supposed inspiration for the Blair Witch Project, Ruggero Deodato's movie essentially takes place in 2 parts. It follows a ...  Read the complete review

If you have seen 'Blair Witch', then you already know the basic premise of this film. Except that it is far more unpleasant and barely watchable at some points. The soundtrack is excellent and fits with the film so well and the documentary style of the film is extremely well done and convincing all the way through. The story centres ...  Read the complete review