Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 5
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1979 Wide
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An anthropologist heads a rescue party into the South American jungle to find a missing film team making a documentary on cannibal tribes but can only return with their footage, which reveals their crueler intentions.
Jan 1, 1979 Wide
Dec 20, 2005
Blackest Heart Media
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Cannibal Holocaust is certainly unpleasant, uncomfortable, even offensive - which is to say that it is uncompromisingly true to its genre - but that is not to undermine its fierce, probing intelligence.
Deodato became confused and made the very thing he was ostensibly criticising.
Basically perfect: it achieves its goals in virtually every respect. Deodato made a movie whose purpose is to make me feel awful, and I do.
This is, bar none, the most revolting, weird and disturbing cannibal film I have ever seen.
Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it
The completely heinous nature of the film...is exposed through its own inconsistencies.
A film that really has, and continues to test the limits of our idea of free speech, how willing we are to allow artistic expression only until it offends us...
The effect is now familiar, but back then it was incredibly shocking, as most viewers believed every word of it.
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.
It may be the nastiest of the Video Nasties.
... there's nothing else out there even remotely like it.
... specious commentary on the manipulation of violence in news and documentary footage and the exploitation of sordid spectacle for entertainment.
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.
The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera.
Whether or not it was his intention, it is also possible to discern a message amid the cruelty: read this as a savage indictment of the power of the media in general, and exploitative documentary filmmaking in particular.
what the fuck ever, dude.
January 25, 2009Super Reviewer
This review contains some spoilers*******************A search team is sent to the Amazon jungle to find out what happened to a missing film crew, doing a documentary on cannibals. They quickly discover the film crew were devoured by the cannibals, but manage to return to New York with their film reels in tact.Once back
July 2, 2007Super Reviewer
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