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Cannibal Holocaust
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Cannibal Holocaust is an Italian adventure and horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato, with Gianfranco Clerici and Deodato serving as screenwriters. The cast includes Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, and Perry Pirkanen. Produced by F.D. Cinematografica, Bolivariana Films, United Artists Europa, and Transcontinental Films, the movie was distributed by United Artists and Netflix. It was filmed in New York City and set in New York City and South America. The production utilized 16 mm film format and had a budget of 100,000, generating revenue of 2,000,000.
The film features music by composer Riz Ortolani and explores themes of cannibalism, adultery, rape, snake, pig, and culture clash. It is categorized as a cannibal film, adventure film, found footage film, and splatter film. Distribution formats include DVD and video on demand. The narrative location spans New York City and South America. The work has been assessed using the Bechdel test.
Critical reception includes a review score of 5.5 out of 10, 67%, and 22 out of 100. The TMDb vote average is 6.3, while the IMDb rating is 5.7. The runtime is 95 minutes. The film was released on January 1, 1980, February 7, 1980, and January 16, 1981. Its tagline is "They eat and they are eaten!" The countries associated with the production are Colombia and Italy.
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6.3A 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.
Cast
- Robert Kerman as Professor Harold Monroe
- Francesca Ciardi as Faye Daniels
- Perry Pirkanen as Jack Anders
- Luca Barbareschi as Mark Tomaso
- Salvatore Basile as Chaco Losojos
- Ricardo Fuentes as Miguel Lujan
Themes
- adultery
- rape
- snake
- pig
- culture clash
- ritual
- movie business
- leech
- spider
- animal attack
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Ruggero Deodato
- Written by
- Gianfranco Clerici
- Produced by
- Franco Di Nunzio Franco Palaggi
- Starring
- Robert Kerman Carl Gabriel Yorke Francesca Ciardi Luca Barbareschi Perry Pirkanen
- Cinematography
- Sergio D'Offizi
- Edited by
- Vincenzo Tomassi
- Music by
- Riz Ortolani
- Production company
- F.D. Cinematografica
- Distributed by
- United Artists Europa
- Release date
- 7 February 1980 ( 1980-02-07 )
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian English
- Budget
- US$ 100,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- cannibalism
- Director
- Ruggero Deodato
- Screenwriter
- Ruggero Deodato
- Cast member
- Paolo Paoloni
- Composer
- Riz Ortolani
- Narrative location
- South America
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 699569
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.cannibalholocaust.net
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- publication date
- 1981-01-16
- title
- Cannibal Holocaust
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 100000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- film format
- 16 mm film
- review score
- 22/100
- Commons category
- Cannibal Holocaust
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Encyclopedic overview
Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers that have gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes.
Produced as part of the contemporary cannibal trend of Italian exploitation cinema, Cannibal Holocaust was inspired by Italian media coverage of the Red Brigades' terrorism. Deodato believed the news reports to be staged, an idea that became an integral aspect of the film's story. Additional story elements were also influenced by the Mondo documentaries of Gualtiero Jacopetti, particularly the presentation of the documentary crew's lost footage, which constitutes approximately half of the film. The treatment of this footage, which is noted for its visual realism, innovated the found footage style of filmmaking that was later popularized in American cinema by The Blair Witch Project. Cannibal Holocaust was filmed primarily on location in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia with a cast of mostly inexperienced American and Italian actors interacting with actual indigenous peoples.
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