Cannibal Holocaust [SEP] director
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist from New York University who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers. Played by Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, and Luca Barbareschi, the crew had gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes. When the rescue team is only able to recover the crew's lost cans of film, an
The Blair Witch Project" received for being an original production. The producers of "The Last Broadcast" have denied that "Cannibal Holocaust" was a major influence. Nonetheless, the film was cited by director Paco Plaza as a source of inspiration for the found footage films "REC" and "REC 2".
"Cannibal Holocaust" has been regarded as the apex of the cannibal genre, and it bears similarities to subsequent cannibal films made during the same time period. "Cannibal Ferox" also stars Kerman and