Here is a song to set the mood for the review.

What an ironic song. Who would've thought that one of the most disgusting and cruel pictures to ever fill the void of time and space would be opened by the most tranquil picturesque scene you could imagine. A lazy flyover shot of a lush jungle environment with that song playing in the background. I found myself cracking up and smiling during this opening and I wouldn't in my wildest dreams think that the song would have an almost reverse effect when you hear it again at the end of the film.

One hour and 30 minutes is all it took to change your mind on that song forever. Its…

“I wonder who the real cannibals are.”
-Professor Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman)

Film 25 of 35 of The Found Footage/Mockumentary Project.

Ah, Cannibal Holocaust. Once seen, never forgotten. I recall the first time I saw it, the same as many; hearing the rumours of this underground cult classic, loved by some, vilified by the rest, then doing all one could to track it down. Part of me will likely always wish I hadn’t.
Violent doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Rather, it is one of the most ferocious, relentlessly revolting pieces of cinema ever committed to memory. It’s also very much deserved of its cult status. So where should one begin? I guess I’ll just try to give a…

92/100
Con una magnífica toma aérea de la selva amazónica y el Gran Río mismo, aderezada por uno de los temas musicales más bellos para los créditos de un filme, inicia una de las películas más controversiales de la historia. Tal película sería prohibida en por lo menos una docena de naciones y su estreno comercial retrasado por años y años en el resto. A casi 30 años de su estreno la capacidad shocking de tal cinta se mantiene intacta.

El largometraje 13 del maestro italiano del cine casposo Ruggero Deodato, en irremediable culto mundial, Holocausto caníbal (Caníbal Holocaust, Italia, 1980), es una retorcida obra maestra del cine de explotación más ruin y vil ascendido a nivel de Gran Arte,…

This was always a film I wanted to avoid but I have to admit, it always intrigued me too. So curiosity got the better of me and after viewing Ruggero Deodato's notorious piece of filmmaking, my verdict is this: disgusting, degrading and fascinating in equal measures.

You have to admire the guerrilla approach to its filming but some scenes just push the boundaries too far for little reason. Does Deodato have a hatred against women? Why does he feel they need to suffer and be humiliated so much? And, the real-life animal cruelty is truly unforgivable. The plot is pretty much non-existent but Cannibal Holocaust is oddly captivating and maybe that's the point Deodato is trying to make; we're obsessed…

Here is a song to set the mood for the review.

What an ironic song. Who would've thought that one of the most disgusting and cruel pictures to ever fill the void of time and space would be opened by the most tranquil picturesque scene you could imagine. A lazy flyover shot of a lush jungle environment with that song playing in the background. I found myself cracking up and smiling during this opening and I wouldn't in my wildest dreams think that the song would have an almost reverse effect when you hear it again at the end of the film.

One hour and 30 minutes is all it took to change your mind on that song forever. Its…

Shocking, Disturbing, grisly, inhuman, cruel. These are some of the few words that first come to mind when I think of Cannibal Holocaust, Director Ruggero Deodato's savage masterpiece of Horror Exploitation. Cannibal Holocaust is a perfect example of a film that lives up to it's reputation. Everything you've heard about this film is true. The film made me feel uneasy with the animal killing scenes, the totally fucked adultry punishment ritual, the native girl rape scene and other disturbing scenes. I've seen plenty of gory, extreme Horror films, but Cannibal Holocaust is a prime example of THE most extreme Horror film ever made. One of the reasons that Cannibal Holocaust works so well to disturb the viewer watching the film…

[B+/A-]

“Now don’t go away, what you are about to see may simply be described as social surgery.”

“Man is omnipotent. Nothing is impossible for him. What seemed to be unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the Moon for example, who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we’ll be considering the conquest of the universe. And yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet, there are still people living in the Stone Age and practicing cannibalism. Primitive tribes isolated in the ruthless, hostile environment where the prevailing law is the survival of the fittest. And this jungle,…

There are a few movies that exist in their own world, that represent stopping points in cinematic history. They are members of a personal list I have that is known as the Cinema of Cruelty.
"Cannibal Holocaust" is one of those movies.

This is perhaps the first movie that used the gimmick of finding film footage to make a movie seem real (this idea was imitated successfully by movies such as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity"). It's about four documentary filmmakers that explore the Amazon jungle to find some primitive cannibal tribes. But their arrogant and sadistic film-making techniques cause the tribes to take matters into their own hands.

Ten days after its release, the director of this…