Cannibal Holocaust poster

Cannibal Holocaust

1980ItalyLanguage: itDirected by Ruggero Deodato★ 6.3
Available in English: subtitled

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.

Themes and style

Tone
bleakbrutalhauntingcold and detached
Pacing
slow burnescalating
Story
investigationsurvivalunravelingjourney
Emotion
loss of innocenceguiltfeeling powerlessrage
Themes
colonial historycaught between worldscorrupt institutionsmen and women navigating expectations
Feel
exhaustinggut punchdiscussion starteremotionally wrecking
Violence
extreme

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