Ripout! Barbeque! Devour! How long can you take it?Cannibal Holocaust is an Italian film about a crew of anthropologists who travel deep into the jungles of South America in search of a tribe of purported cannibals. When they disappear, Professor Harold Monroe travels from New York in search of them and finds their missing film.
The film reveals the shocking journey of the anthropologists and their violent demise at the hands of the aboriginals whom they had tormented viciously upon their arrival.
There are different schools of thought about this film. One says that the original goal was to put forward a progressive message about the treatment of the Third World by the First. Very little evidence seems to exist to verify this. Instead, the film seems to aim to take the throne as the most shocking and gruesome movie ever made, a title is may well have earned through its depictions of murder, rape, cannibalism, mutilation, and animal cruelty.
While the animal cruelty is, unfortunately and despicably, real, the others are (as far as is known) not. With that said, the producers of the film were in fact brought before a court after the film was released and forced to prove that they had in fact not murdered one of the female aboriginal actors in the film who is impaled on a steak in the movie.
Cannibal Holocaust remains banned in many countries and only recently became legal in Canada and the United States with an R and X rating respectively. This film is undoubtedly not for the weak of heart or stomach. Nor is it for those who find it difficult to condone unbridled racism and misogyny. Besides, horror movies should be scary and fun to watch. This is neither.
0 cannibals out of 5
Rated R/X for intense violence and gore, sexual content, nudity, rape, you name it.
Watch the Cannibal Holocaust trailer.
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