Cannibal Holocaust

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Cannibal Holocaust

1980

1h 35m

Horror

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A professor (Francesca Ciardi) finds the remains of a film crew in the Amazon and brings the camera footage back to America.

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Time Out

06/24/2006

Its pointed attack on exploitative film-making seems somewhat rich in the circumstances, but this is well made, uniquely unpleasant and almost deserving of its huge cult status.

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

10/06/2005

0/4

Most of the enduring grindhouse movies lose the residue of sweaty misanthropy through the simple, inevitable obsolescence of their hard-candied centers of shock value.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

08/30/2005

D

The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera.

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Chase Hutchinson

Collider

12/29/2022

B-

...the film is, to put it bluntly, one of the most intentionally distasteful and violent experiences one could ever watch. It also remains one of the genre’s most enduring, for better and worse, after all these years.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

07/05/2014

B

Rough, but it's an interesting type of sensationalism from a (thankfully) bygone production era. It's not a film to be enjoyed, but it certainly offers a singular genre bite that's impressively gonzo.

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

06/26/2014

An enormous master work from Ruggero Deodato whose own film has pretty much guaranteed to outlive its creator.

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Kayden D.

@RT91277629 1d

Alright just underwhelming

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Aarav T

@Atp548 Apr 28

I haven't watched this. I don't plan to watch this. Rated this because the shitty director killed real animals for this trash.

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Chloe A

@Chloe7 Jan 20

Definitely a strange and disturbing movie

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Tim B.

@SlimTim0707 Jan 15

A seemingly purposeless exercise that sexually exploits real minors and murders animals, Cannibal Holocaust's characters are so unlikeable that their death scenes will leave something to be desired.

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Lucas S

@jakalope-92 Jan 14

They actually killed real animals to make this, I don’t care about the plot or whatever, all I care about is tgat tgey murdered animals to make this and that alone gets it 1/2 star, shame you can’t put 0 stars. Disgusting film, director sick to the bone

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Michael T.

@MichaelTriv12 Jan 13

Big fan of horror movies and saw this on a horror list so thought I’d give it a chance. I wouldn’t even call it a horror movie. Disturbing at times? Yes. Horror? No. Please don’t waste your time with this movie, it’s irredeemable in every sense.

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Synopsis

A professor (Francesca Ciardi) finds the remains of a film crew in the Amazon and brings the camera footage back to America.

Director: Ruggero Deodato
Screenwriter: Gianfranco Clerici
Production Co: F.D. Cinematografica
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 7, 1980, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 21, 2017
Runtime: 1h 35m