![]() ![]() However, what really sets Cannibal Holocaust apart from its contemporaries is the astounding realism of its special effects and with lashings of gore on display through-out, it’s practically impossible to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t. Like the majority of ‘video nasties’, Cannibal Holocaust suffers from pretty poor acting, with former adult film star Robert Kerman (of Debbie Does Dallas ‘fame’) providing the best turn as the Bruce Parry-esque Monroe, but the plot itself is fairly engrossing and the film’s combination of traditional narrative and ‘found footage’ works surprisingly well. ![]() Along with the aforementioned animal killings, the director bombards us with brutal image after brutal image, including numerous rapes, explicit sexual assualts and a barbaric forced abortion, along with plenty of beheadings, penile amputation and savage acts of cannibalism (obviously). ![]() There is a line of dialogue in Cannibal Holocaust from a television executive, who states their belief that in terms of audiences, “the more you rape their senses, the happier they are,” and this is a mantra to which Ruggero clearly subscribes. After forcing an entire village into a burning hut, the filmmakers went on to gang rape a young tribal girl, leading to a swift and brutal revenge attack from the cannibalistic natives.īilled as ‘the most controversial film ever made,’ Cannibal Holocaust certainly makes a good case for living up to that tag, with its gruesome animal slaughter, sexual violence and stomach-churning cannibalism sequences combining to provide one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences in cinema history. Back in New York, Monroe agrees to host a documentary based upon the found footage and soon discovers the extreme methods employed by the group in order to acquire their footage. With help from his guide, Monroe makes contact with several of the indigenous tribes and eventually gains their trust, enabling him to make a trade for the crew’s surviving film reels. One of the most notorious films of the ‘video nasty’ era, Cannibal Holocaust begins with anthropologist Harold Monroe (Robert Kerman) preparing to venture into a remote area of the Amazon jungle known as the Green Inferno, hoping to rescue a missing film crew who were making a documentary on the primitive cannibal tribes that inhabit the region. Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile and Ricardo Fuentes.Īn anthropologist ventures into the Amazon in search of a missing American documentary film crew and retrieves their footage, which documents the gruesome truth behind the ill-fated expedition. ![]()
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