1980 · horror · italian
Cannibal Holocaust
Directed by Ruggero Deodato1h 35m1980
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.
Our read: Cannibal Holocaust (1980) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · italian entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / italian, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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