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Holocausto caníbal (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust (original title)

UNRATED 95 min  -  Adventure | Drama | Horror  -   19 October 1980 (Spain)
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A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Director:

Ruggero Deodato

Writer:

Gianfranco Clerici (story)
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Robert Kerman Robert Kerman ...
Francesca Ciardi Francesca Ciardi ...
Perry Pirkanen Perry Pirkanen ...
Jack Anders
Luca Barbareschi Luca Barbareschi ...
Mark Tomaso (as Luca Giorgio Barbareschi)
Salvatore Basile Salvatore Basile ...
Ricardo Fuentes Ricardo Fuentes ...
Felipe Ocanya
Carl Gabriel Yorke Carl Gabriel Yorke ...
Alan Yates (as Gabriel Yorke)
Paolo Paoloni Paolo Paoloni ...
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Lionello Pio Di Savoia Lionello Pio Di Savoia ...
Executive (as Pio Di Savoia)
Luigina Rocchi Luigina Rocchi ...
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Storyline

A New York anthropologist named Professor Harold Monroe travels to the wild, inhospitable jungles of South America to find out what happened to a documentary film crew that disappeared two months before while filming a documentary about primitive cannibal tribes deep in the rain forest. With the help of two local guides, Professor Monroe encounters two tribes, the Yacumo and the Yanomamo. While under the hospitality of the latter tribe, he finds the remains of the crew and several reels of their undeveloped film. Upon returning to New York City, Professor Monroe views the film in detail, featuring the director Alan Yates, his girlfriend Faye Daniels, and cameramen Jack Anders and Mark Tomaso. After a few days of traveling, the film details how the crew staged all the footage for their documentary by terrorizing and torturing the natives. Despite Monroe's objections, the television studio Pan American still wishes to air the footage as a legitimate documentary... Written by Helltopay27  

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Tribe | Professor | Cannibal | Rain | Amazon  | See more »

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Horror

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

English | Spanish

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust See more »

Filming Locations:

Amazon Rainforest, Colombia See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$100,000 (estimated)

Gross:

ESP 133,432,635 (Spain) (31 August 1999)
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Company Credits

Production Co:

F.D. Cinematografica See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

 | UK: (heavily cut)  | USA: (animal cruelty-free version)  | Canada: (Québec)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (2001 re-release) | Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

This film contains unsimulated sex acts, despite the actors involved saying otherwise. It was maintained till 2009, that Francesca Ciardi and Carl Gabriel Yorke's sex scenes were not only simulated but not occurring on set. These acts were confirmed as real by the actress Francesca Ciardi as occurring not just off set but during filming. She explained she kept up the idea for the sake of the actor who had a girlfriend at the time. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: During the impalement scene, careful analysis shows not only that the lower portion of the "stick" is perfectly smooth and straight versus the portion through her mouth is rough and somewhat jagged, like an actual tree limb, but that the two pieces do not line up correctly - the lower portion would be exiting through her eye sockets. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Reporter: Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.
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Crazy Credits

In the opening credits: "For the sake of authenticity, some of the
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Connections

Referenced in Psycho Holocaust (2009) See more »

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User Reviews

22 July 2004 | by Superunknovvn (Austria, Vienna) – See all my reviews

"Cannibal Holocaust" is not the campy little horror flick I expected. It's a "serious" and well-made movie and it's an experience you'll hardly ever forget. According to IMDb's trivia section the movie can "only be seen completely uncut in the EC-UltraBit DVD", which means that I've seen a tamed down version and that, my friends, is insane! "Cannibal Holocaust" is easily one of the most graphic movies I've ever come across. The violence is incredibly realistic. It's no wonder that director Ruggero Deodato was taken to court to prove that he hasn't slain real people for his motion picture. (I still think the real animal slaughtering in the movie was unnecessary. Screw you for that, Deodato!) It's hard to tell if there really is a message or if the "moral" is just an excuse for all the gore. In a strange way the violent scenes somehow speak for themselves and do deliver some kind of message, but that's open for discussion.

If ever a movie deserved the label "disturbing", it's "Cannibal Holocaust". It's controversial, but totally worth watching, if you can take some seriously sick images.


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