Some nations have since revoked the ban, but the film is still banned in several countries. Although Deodato was later cleared, the film was banned in Italy, Australia, and several other countries due to its disturbing portrayal of graphic brutality, sexual assault, and animal violence. He was charged with making a snuff film due to rumors that claimed some actors were killed on camera. After its premiere in Italy, it was seized by a local magistrate, and Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges. The film's notion of "recovered footage" has influenced the now-popular genre of found footage horror films, such as The Blair Witch Project.Ĭannibal Holocaust achieved notoriety as its graphic violence aroused a great deal of controversy. Upon viewing the reels, Monroe is appalled by the team's actions, and after learning their fate, he objects to the station's intent to air the documentary.Ĭannibal Holocaust is unique for its "found footage" structure, in which the gradual revelation of the recovered film's content functions similar to a flashback.
A rescue mission, led by the New York University anthropologist Harold Monroe, recovers the film crew's lost cans of film, which an American television station wishes to broadcast. The film tells the story of a missing documentary film crew who had gone to the Amazon to film cannibal tribes. Cannibal Holocaust was filmed in the Amazon Rainforest with real indigenous tribes interacting with American and Italian actors. Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici, starring Carl Gabriel Yorke, Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi and Luca Barbareschi.
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