Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

NR02/07/1980Horror1h 36m
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They eat and they are eaten!

Overview

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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  1. Cast 1

    Robert Kerman

    Professor Harold Monroe

  2. Cast 1

    Francesca Ciardi

    Faye Daniels

  3. Cast 1

    Perry Pirkanen

    Jack Anders

  4. Cast 1

    Luca Barbareschi

    Mark Tomaso

  5. Cast 1

    Salvatore Basile

    Chaco Losojos

  6. Cast 1

    Ricardo Fuentes

    Miguel Lujan

  7. Cast 1

    Carl Gabriel Yorke

    Alan Yates

  8. Cast 1

    Paolo Paoloni

    1st Executive

  9. Cast 1

    Lionello Pio Di Savoia

    2nd Executive

"If hellholes like this didn't exist, I'm sure you would invent one" This film is almost, but not quite, exactly what the lurid title would suggest. It's definitely going for shocks as its primary source of horror, with a lot of this being truly hard to watch (I saw the uncut version, with animal cruelty intact, and I can see why they're cut from most versions, although there is a certain level of hypocrisy in condemning those scenes if you eat meat - and I doubt everyone who has ever criticised it were all vegetarian or vegan - unless you think that what goes on in slaughterhouses is any k...