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Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers that have gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes.
Cannibal films, alternatively known as the cannibal genre or the cannibal boom, are a subgenre of horror films made predominantly by Italian filmmakers during the 1970s and 1980s. This subgenre is a collection of graphically violent movies that usually depict cannibalism by primitive, Stone Age natives deep within the Asian or South American ...
Natura contro (English: Against Nature), also known in English as The Green Inferno and Cannibal Holocaust II, is a 1988 Italian cannibal adventure film directed by Antonio Climati. Climati had no intention of making a sequel to Cannibal Holocaust , and the title was used by distributors of the film to cash in on the success and notoriety of ...
"Cannibal Holocaust" saw Deodato arrested for murder — as he had the supposedly dead cast "sign a contract that said they must disappear for a year." Ruggero Deodato, Director Of Infamous Horror ...
In filmmaking, the 1980 cult horror feature Cannibal Holocaust is often claimed to be the first example of found footage. [3] However, Shirley Clarke's arthouse film The Connection (1961) and the Orson Welles directed The Other Side of the Wind, a found footage movie shot in the early 1970s but released in 2018, predate Cannibal Holocaust. [4]
Cannibal Holocaust: 1980 Banned due to its extremely violent content and actual on-screen killings of animals. [4] 1988 The Last Temptation of Christ: 1988-permanent For its alleged anti-religion theme. [5] 1989 Dear Uncle Sam: N/A For its critical stance towards American military presence in the Philippines.
Trailer of Cannibal Holocaust
He is best known for starring in the 1980 Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust. In the movie he is erroneously credited as 'Perry Pirkanen'. Pirkkanen, then a student at New York City's Actors Studio, was hired by director Ruggero Deodato who was looking for unknown actors to play the film's four main characters. In the film, he was in an ...