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Cannibal Holocaust (1979)

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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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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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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.

NC-17, 1 hr. 35 min.

Horror

Gianfranco Clerici

Dec 20, 2005

Blackest Heart Media

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All Critics (13) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (5) | DVD (11)

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.

September 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Comment
Little White Lies

Deodato became confused and made the very thing he was ostensibly criticising.

July 6, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment

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.

September 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

This is, bar none, the most revolting, weird and disturbing cannibal film I have ever seen.

March 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment (1)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

The completely heinous nature of the film...is exposed through its own inconsistencies.

October 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Projection Booth | Comment
Projection Booth

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...

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The effect is now familiar, but back then it was incredibly shocking, as most viewers believed every word of it.

July 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

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.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

It may be the nastiest of the Video Nasties.

May 27, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

... there's nothing else out there even remotely like it.

January 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Dread Central | Comment
Dread Central

... specious commentary on the manipulation of violence in news and documentary footage and the exploitation of sordid spectacle for entertainment.

December 14, 2005 Full Review Source: St@tic Multimedia | Comment

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.

October 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera.

August 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comments (10)
Lessons of Darkness

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.

October 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Cannibal Holocaust

what the fuck ever, dude.

January 25, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid
Coxxie Mild Sauce

Super 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, 2007
cancercapricorn2002
David Ladd

Super Reviewer

    1. Professor Harold Monroe: I wonder who the real cannibals are?
    – Submitted by michael s (4 months ago)

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