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Movie Overview
Cast
• Robert Kerman
• Francesca Ciardi
• Carl Yorke
Director
• Ruggero Deodato
MPAA Rating
Unrated - 18 and over; sensationalistic scenes of violence and mutilation
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

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OFCS Rating: 63% Fresh
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3/5
"The effect is now familiar, but back then it was incredibly shocking, as most viewers believed every word of it."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

0/4
"Most of the enduring grindhouse movies lose the residue of sweaty misanthropy through the simple, inevitable obsolescence of their hard-candied centers of shock value."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

"Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it"  CinePassion  Fernando F. Croce

A
"Viewers looking for a film that's powerful, visceral, and disturbing have a new title to add to their must-see list."  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

D
"The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

4/5
"It may be the nastiest of the Video Nasties."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

"The completely heinous nature of the film...is exposed through its own inconsistencies."  Projection Booth  Rob Humanick

"... specious commentary on the manipulation of violence in news and documentary footage and the exploitation of sordid spectacle for entertainment."  St@tic Multimedia  Sean Axmaker
OFCS Rating: 63% Fresh
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