Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

02/07/1980 (CO) • 1h 36m

Horror

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.

Top Billed Cast

Robert Kerman

Professor Harold Monroe

Francesca Ciardi

Faye Daniels

Perry Pirkanen

Jack Anders

Luca Barbareschi

Mark Tomaso

Salvatore Basile

Chaco Losojos

Ricardo Fuentes

Miguel Lujan

Paolo Paoloni

1st Executive


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$100,000.00

Revenue

$2,000,000.00

Keywords

adultery

rape

snake

pig

culture clash

ritual

movie business

leech

spider

animal attack

controversy

swamp

tribe

vomit

amazon rainforest

film in film

human sacrifice

jungle

torture

rape and murder

brutality

cannibal

hatchet

south america

filmmaking

missing person

fake documentary

misogyny

ritual sacrifice

found footage

documentary filmmaking

tortoise

video nasty

lost footage

animal cruelty

amazon tribe

vomiting woman

abused woman

film within a film

adulterous wife

film censorship

film industry

guerilla filmmaking

banned film

disemboweling

film reel

yacomo

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