Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21354 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-08-26
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 96 minutes

Album Description
The most controversial movie ever made has finally arrived on DVD! Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST presents the "found footage" of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. This footage is so intense, so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST were arrested upon its original release and the film seized.

Customer Reviews

THE MOVIE THAT MADE ME SAY...ITS ONLY A MOVIE..ONLY A MOVIE..ONLY A MOVIE!!!!
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST will be a cheap exploitation film to some. And a complete grab your blanky and hot co-co to others(like me :)_ This starts off with a warning note on the movie you are about to see(a lot like another HORROR masterpiece did in 74)while the warning is being shown you are hearing some of the most HAUNTING music put to celluloid. We then are in a plane flying over the coffee like water of the Amazon(No! Not this Amazon) we then jump scenes to New York where a T.V.commentator is telling you the viewer that a so few hours flight can take you to the life of Cannibals(DA DA DUN) We are introduced to 4 very young and brave individuals who will fly to what they call the Green Inferno and document the lives of Cannibals(DA DA DUN)well they don't come back and a T.V. station hires a professor to find them with a search party. To make a long story short he finds cans of film and brings them back to N.Y. to view them. What he and the others(including you the viewer)see is truly HORRIFYING!!! I can only tell you this...I have a vast HORROR collection and no HORROR film has done to me what CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST has done! I'm not saying it is the grossest horror film,nor am I saying its the best horror film. But I will say their is a scene in this movie that made me pause the DVD and get up to go to the bathroom splash water on my face and say YOUR O.K. Clint c'mon just actors having a good time"COUGH"get a hold of yourself...Thats a good lad. If you are looking for blood,blood,BLOOD! Then you might be disappointed. If you are looking for a movie that will make you be grateful for the life you have and cherish each breath you take then my dear friend this is the movie for you...THE ONE THAT GOES ALL THE WAY!!! LONG LIVE THE CAUST!!!!!!!!!!!

My Review for Cannibal Holocaust.
I've been vowing to never watch Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, and Lucio Fulci films since I was 15. That was when I really got into horror films by George Romero, Dario Argento, Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, and on and on. Recently I watched Cannibal Holocaust uncut at age 19 on the internet thinking I was ready but I wasn't ready enough(lol).
Ruggero Deodato directed this and remains a cult director today, even appearing in Hostel II and currently making Cannibals(a sequel or Americanized version of Cannibal Holocaust) for mainstream release. The cast includes former adult film actor Robert Kerman, several lesser-knowns, and mostly real natives(if it's true but not sure). The film is actually centered on a professor who goes to a South American jungle to find out why "the" documentary crew disappeared. The professor brings the reels back, then we find out what happened and see the footage(which is part of the story). The film has 80's independent Italian drama graphics while the "footage" has realistic documentary graphics. The score has mainly two theme tracks with one as the pleasant theme track and the other as the disturbing theme track(which stays in the mind).
Now I'm sure people want to know alot about the content. It's graphically violent and graphically sexual. There is frontal male and female nudity as well but it's mostly cultural and the male nudity is not up close. The violence is again graphic and looks real in the "footage." I was disturbed by some killings and animal slayings. The animal killings where genuine, graphic and some even perpetrated by the actors(other than the natives). The sexual content is graphic, not hardcore, but graphic since there are brief rapes and casual sex scenes. This is not for everyone and not many get away not shocked.
My opinion is the film is bad for the acting and such but yet it's good for it's cinematography and elements. I like how it's a film-inside-a-film like those films about a fictional snuff film inside like 8mm. This film has no point yet it does have satire. Anyways I really don't like the film but I do see something more than sensationalism. I only have respect for the film. I won't watch it again and I may not see Cannibal Ferox unless I can be convinced it's not as disturbing and traumatizing. I wan't to point something out. This has been mistaken as a snuff film but it's not. Even the "footage" is fake and fictional. The only real killings were done to the animals which I condemned since they were only used as props. AGAIN, this film is not for everyone and not many are desensitive while watching it.

"Cannibal Holocaust", the most controversial movie ever...
Robert Kerman, aka porn star R. Bolla, plays a famous anthropologist Dr. Monroe who travels to the Amazon jungle to try on rescue mission for four documentarians who journeyed into the jungle to film indigenous tribes. Two months later, Dr. Monroe, attempts to locate the four and eventually recovers and views their lost cans of film which reaveal the missing filmmakers fate... and their atrocities!

This film was directed by Ruggero Deodato in a semi-documentary style, and Entertainment Weekly has hailed "Cannibal holocaust" the 20th most contraversial film ever made, that includes six real life animal killings, including a muskrat, turtle and pig. But the real controversey is perhaps on the set. There are stories of verbal arguments between the director, Deodato and the cast, especially Kerman. Even with his crew onthe issue of the animal killings. Even the actor originally playing Alan quit, and production was delayed two weeks until a new actor was found. This film as been said to have been banned in over 50 countries, but their is no way of verification.

Aside from the controversial animal cruelity, and the apparant fights and arguements on set this is a rather good film. It is a somewhat shocking and in serval scenes very disturbing images to behold. All in all, this is perhaps one of the best "Cannibal" films ever made and highly recommended.

Compared to many of todays violent films, this is somewhat tame, with the exception of the cruelity to animals issue. Even I looked away in digust to the animal killings. A truely must see film!