During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Luca Barbareschi
- Mark Tomaso
- (as Luca Giorgio Barbareschi)
Carl Gabriel Yorke
- Alan Yates
- (as Gabriel Yorke)
Lionello Pio Di Savoia
- 2nd Executive
- (as Pio Di Savoia)
Eva Bravo
- Adulteress
- (uncredited)
Ruggero Deodato
- Man Sitting in NYU Campus
- (uncredited)
Guillermo
- Felipe Ocaña
- (uncredited)
Enrico Papa
- Pantheon Interviewer
- (uncredited)
David Sage
- Alan's Father
- (uncredited)
Kate Weiman
- 1st Executive
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaTen days after its premiere in Milan, the film was seized by the Italian courts and director Ruggero Deodato was arrested and charged with obscenity. He was later charged with murdering several actors on camera and faced life in prison. The cast had signed contracts requiring them to disappear for a year after shooting to maintain the illusion that they had died. Deodato contacted Luca Barbareschi and told him to contact the three other actors who played the missing film team. When the actors appeared in court, alive and well, the murder charges were dropped.
- GoofsWhen the Yanomamo guide is given muskrat flesh to eat, he never puts any inside in his mouth. Instead, he opens his mouth a few times near it to give the impression that he is eating.
- Quotes
Professor Harold Monroe: I wonder who the real cannibals are.
- Crazy creditsThe Grindhouse Releasing (USA) and Siren Visual (Australia) DVDs/Blu-rays omit the United Artists Europa logo in favor of a text crawl regarding the film's violent content: "The following motion picture contains intense scenes of extreme violence and cruelty. As distributors of this film, we wish to state with absolute sincerity that by no means do we condone the artistic decisions employed by the makers of this film. However, as firm believers in the constitutional right of free speech, we do not believe in censorship. To quote Thomas Jefferson, 'it behooves every man who values the liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasion of it in the case of others.' Therefore, we are presenting CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST for the first time in its uncut, uncensored original form, with all sequences photographed by the filmmakers, however offensive and repugnant, presented fully intact. What you will see will definitely shock and offend you. Nonetheless, it should be viewed as a disturbing historical document of a bygone era of extreme irresponsibility which no longer exists, and, hopefully, will never exist again. 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - George Santayana"
- Alternate versionsThe Grindhouse Releasing re-release, as well as the 2005 DVD, features a scrolling warning before the film from the company stating that the film is uncut and uncensored and while they do not support the "artistic decisions" of the film, they do support free speech. It also plays part of Riz Ortolani's music score in the background.
- ConnectionsEdited into Through Eyes of the Dead (1999)
Featured review
Yes, this film was banned and heavily censored in a few places for being disturbing. It does have some really well done gruesome scenes but the real censorship came from the cruelty to animals. Let's just say this film doesn't have "no animals were harmed during production" scrolling the end credits. The animal killings include a pig being shot in the head from close range, a muskrat being slit open for no reason, a giant turtle being split open in an overly long scene and a monkey getting his brains bashed in which required two takes so two monkeys were killed during production. These were real killings and not faked. A lot of the actors on the set protested this but the show went on. In fact, one of the lead actors feared for his life thinking this might be a "snuff" film and might meet the same fate. As much as this bothered people, is it really that different then buying meat in a supermarket? At least it made me think. The movie centers around "found footage" of a group of documentary filmmakers. The filmmakers are in South America searching for a tribe of flesh-eaters, hoping that this documentary will win them fame and fortune. The movie was marketed in a way that made viewers believe all the documentary footage shown in the movie was actual footage of a group that really went to South America to do a documentary. Some questionable acting gives it away. And you thought "The Blair Witch Project" was an original idea didn't you!?
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- En el infierno caníbal
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- Budget
- $100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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