In reality, however, the actors who died on-screen had signed contracts that stated they would not appear in any other type of media for a year following the film's release. The disappearance of the documentary crew following the film’s release had been by design in order to add realism to the film and promote the idea that the deaths had in fact been real. The documentary filmmakers that were shown to be killed on-screen had not been seen since the film's release and Deodato’s charges were adjusted to include murder.

After the 1981 theatrical run in France, it was suggested that the deaths seen onscreen, including the missing documentary crew and the native actor in the infamous impalement scene, were real. The film's legacy is not so much in the story shown but rather in the film's graphic depictions of violence, layers of controversy in both the production and release, as well as the film's censorship all over the world.įollowing the premiere of the film, the movie was ordered to be seized by the Italian government, and the director Ruggero Deodato was charged with obscenity. The found footage captured by the documentarians makes up about half of the runtime of Cannibal Holocaust the other half shows the anthropologist and his conflict with an American broadcast network that wants to show the footage on television to its American audience. The documentarians enter the jungle to cover a group of cannibalistic native groups the anthropologist is only able to find the footage that was left behind, finding that the group was killed after watching the lost film. The movie is presented in a found-footage style format and follows an anthropologist into the Amazon Rainforest searching for a missing crew of documentary filmmakers.

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici.

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