Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
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.
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A strong constitution is certainly required for watching this early Blair Witch precursor, which purports to tell the real-life tale of a professor (Debbie Does Dallas porn legend Robert Kerman) who goes in search of missing documentarians in cannibal-infested Amazonia, discovers their celluloid last will and testament, and then watches their filmed demise at the hands (and mouths) of organ-eating tribesman.
I’d like to be the first, if I may, to partner Cannibal Holocaust with Sidney Lumet’s Network.
It's no Apocalypse Now or Aguirre, the Wrath of God, but there are times when it provides a sense of what can happen when the veneer of civilization erodes.
Beyond any of that, Deodato simply approaches the film with a level of gravity and commitment not to be found in any of the other prominent cannibal films, not even his own earlier Jungle Holocaust/Last Cannibal World .
(Ilsa, incidentally, showed up at my screening, prompting one of the more culturally sensitive splatterpunks to holler from the balcony, "Fuck you, Nazi bitch!") Especially since Italian director-cum-asshole Ruggero Deodato's follow-up to his own pace-setting The Last Survivor (now more popularly known as Jungle Holocaust) takes only slightly less delight in concocting ever-escalating dioramas of ruthless, demented brutality as Deodato himself seems all too eager to blame his film's existence on the cult audience's bloodlust.