Cannibal Holocaust

Released Feb 7, 1980

1h 35m

Horror

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67%

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18 Reviews

61%

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25,000+ Ratings

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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James Berardinelli

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Rated: 1/4

Mar 6, 2012

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Time Out

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.

Jun 24, 2006

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

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.

Rated: 0/4

Oct 6, 2005

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Chase Hutchinson

Collider

...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.

Rated: B-

Dec 29, 2022

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

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.

Rated: B

Jul 5, 2014

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

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

Jun 26, 2014

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Jerod S

It's the Blair Witch way before its time - except stomach churning and wrong.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/17/24

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Justin T

This is such a sick and twisted wrong film. There is nothing morally salvageable about this repulsive affair. The animal cruelty is truly disgusting and made me feel sick for the brief second that I saw it until I looked away. The story is fast moving and offers no relent. The end improves slightly with the suggestion of burning the footage that should have never been shot, life should imitate art and this film should have been burnt. As it is a film within a film the filmmakers almost take the moral high ground but in the end it is all part of the same sick and twisted plot. The genuine animal death scenes make the rest of the human (fake) violence seem so real that it is painful to watch. This is the pinnacle of sick filmmaking without the use of genuine human death. Avoid this please, do not encourage them.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/24

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Alessia M

The description of the violence is crude and cold, representing the inhumanity of the Western world. In the end, the real evil people (if we can call them that) were not the natives but the more civilized ones. Excellent film for its hidden meaning, but loses, in my opinion, due to violence against animals.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/29/23

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Kat R

The fact that the animals were real and were being killed brutally just for the sake of the movie is just disgusting and cruel and inhumane.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/11/23

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Steve D

Nothing about it is impressive.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/03/23

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Tyler B

Make no mistake, this film will provoke you.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/01/23

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Ruggero Deodato

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Francesca Ciardi

Faye Daniels

Perry Pirkanen

Jack Anders

Salvatore Basile

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Robert Kerman

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Ricardo Fuentes

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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

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