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CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST was for years reviled as one of the most repugnant and morally questionable of the 1970s spate of cannibal films--and possibly the most horrifying ever. But director Ruggero Deodato embarked upon the project with the intention of criticizing the very violence he was portraying. Set in the Amazonian jungles, the film is a pseudo-documentary that follows Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman) into the "Green Inferno" as he searches for a documentary crew that came to the jungle the previous year to make a film about the storied cannibals that lived there, and never made it back. Now, Moore meets some natives and discovers the footage from the crew's expedition, and upon returning to New York, he watches it to find out what really happened. The truth is too horrible for words, proving that savagery is not limited to indigenous peoples, and the morally outrageous film proceeds to indict the exploitative practices of certain documentary practices. However, the extremity of the violence portrayed was enough to put Deodato in hot water with the law, and with censors who claimed it was far too realistic. The career of the promising director, who had worked under a list of Italian luminaries that included Roberto Rossellini (ROME: OPEN CITY, PAISAN, VOYAGE IN ITALY), was essentially ended with this brutal, seminal film--for which he will nonetheless always be remembered.Product Identifiers
UPC0652799000329
eBay Product ID (ePID)48327476
Product Key Features
ActorCarl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Robert Kerman
Edition2-Disc Uncensored Director's Cut, 25th Anniversary Edition
Movie/TV TitleCannibal Holocaust
DirectorRuggero Deodato, Roger Franklin
FormatDVD
Release Year2005
GenreHorror, Horror/Suspense
Additional Product Features
RatingUnrated
Region CodeRegion0
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureItaly
Display Format2-Disc Uncensored Director's Cut, 25th Anniversary Edition
Leading RoleCarl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Robert Kerman
Release Date20051025
Film CountryItaly