Cannibal Holocaust

Titolo originale: Cannibal Holocaust
Regia: Ruggero Deodato |
Anno: 1980
Origine: Colombia | Italy |
Generi: Horror
Tag: adultery | rape | snake | pig | culture clash | ritual | movie business | leech | spider | animal attack | controversy | swamp | tribe | vomit | amazon rainforest | film in film | human sacrifice | jungle | torture | rape and murder | brutality | cannibal | hatchet | south america | filmmaking | missing person | fake documentary | misogyny | ritual sacrifice | found footage | documentary filmmaking | tortoise | video nasty | lost footage | animal cruelty | amazon tribe | vomiting woman | abused woman | film within a film | adulterous wife | film censorship | film industry | guerilla filmmaking | banned film | disemboweling | film reel | yacomo | b-horror |
Cast: Robert Kerman | Francesca Ciardi | Perry Pirkanen | Luca Barbareschi | Salvatore Basile | Ricardo Fuentes | Carl Gabriel Yorke | Paolo Paoloni | Lionello Pio Di Savoia | Luigina Rocchi | Mauricio Rodríguez | Ricardo Ramírez | Guillermo Bueno | William Sánchez | Ángel Manuel García | Edgardo Maza Anaya | Lucia Costantini | Ruggero Deodato | Enrico Papa | David Sage |

Il professor Munro viene incaricato di rintracciare quattro ragazzi misteriosamente scomparsi nella giungla dell'Amazzonia. La sua ricerca riporta alla luce alcune pellicole, rinvenute presso una tribù cannibale: il loro contenuto chiarirà cos’è successo ai giovani dispersi.

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Carl Gabriel Yorke became severely upset while filming a scene in which his character takes a part i [...] D
The second highest-grossing film in Japan in 1983 behind E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982). D
Perry Pirkanen cried after filming the turtle scene. D
When the professor meets the shaman's son for the first time, the boy has a symbol "tattooed" on his [...] D
Various sources have claimed that the film was banned in 50 countries. Italy banned it for three yea [...] D
"The Last Road To Hell" sequence includes authentic execution footage from Nigeria and Southeast Asi [...] D
After filming the sex scene between Carl Gabriel Yorke and Francesca Ciardi, due to the several take [...] D
Ruggero Deodato wanted a scene in which the natives fed an enemy tribesman to piranhas, but he did n [...] D
Ruggero Deodato intended for the natives to eat fake monkey brains from a fake monkey head. The nati [...] D
The father of the man who played Miguel was murdered during filming. Production was delayed so he co [...] D
Ruggero Deodato was inspired to make the film after seeing his son watch a violent news report on TV [...] D
This is Francesca Ciardi's debut film. D
Though originally uncaring toward the nature of this film during shooting, Ruggero Deodato now regre [...] D
In a 2005 interview, Carl Gabriel Yorke said that while rehearsing the sex scene with Francesca Ciar [...] D
On some occasions, Ruggero Deodato has said that a full script was not available when they shot the [...] D
With the possible exception of Perry Pirkanen, Carl Gabriel Yorke's voice is the only one used in th [...] D
Ruggero Deodato has said he now regrets everything he did, especially the actual animal deaths. He s [...] D
The Yanomamo and Shamatari are actual South American native tribes. Neither one of them is accuratel [...] D
The role of the adulteress is popularly attributed to wardrobe manager Lucia Costantini, but this is [...] D
To create "The Last Road To Hell" sequence, Ruggero Deodato watched hours of execution footage. He l [...] D
The production team could not find any native women to play the adulteress, so the Head of Wardrobe [...] D
Director Ruggero Deodato said he based the film on a film he saw about a documentary crew who died w [...] D
After working with him in Concorde Affaire '79 (1979), Ruggero Deodato offered Robert Kerman the mai [...] D
The iconic poster image for the film shows a native girl impaled on a stick. In court, Ruggero Deoda [...] D
In the 10 days between its release and its banning in Italy, the film grossed approximately $1.9 mil [...] D
Francesca Ciardi has stated more than once, including in a DVD audio commentary for this film, [...] D
The original title for the film would have been "The Green Inferno", but it was changed at the last [...] D
In the scene where the professor bathes naked in a river, the native women in the same scene were hi [...] D
The Yacumo chief and the Yanomamo chief were both played by the same man. D
During the right-wing military dictatorship in Chile, the film tried two times to get the approval f [...] D
When Carl Gabriel Yorke arrived in the Amazon for shooting, he was not given a script or any idea of [...] D
A final subtitle at the end of the film states "Projectionist John K. Kirov was given a two-month su [...] D
During an interview in 2014, Francesca Ciardi said she knew in advance that she would be required to [...] D
This film is considered to be the goriest film ever made by the critical community, even more gory t [...] D
Ruggero Deodato: Sitting on a blanket outside of NYU. D
The animal deaths in the film were real. The list of dead animals includes a coati, a yellow-spotted [...] D
Immediately after a pig was shot and killed, Carl Gabriel Yorke botched a long monologue that Rugger [...] D
A small segment of music from Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) was reused by Riz Ortolani in this f [...] D
The film has six unofficial sequels. D
Guillermo, who played the guide Felipe Ocaña, was actually the jungle guide of the film's crew. A [...] D
After seeing the film, director Sergio Leone wrote a letter to Ruggero Deodato, which stated, "Dear [...] D
In the Italian version of this film, Faye Daniels is named Shanda Tomaso, and Mark Tomaso is named M [...] D
Ten days after its premiere in Milan, the film was seized by the Italian courts and director Ruggero [...] D
Robert Kerman was a porn actor trying to establish himself in mainstream films. After this film, "le [...] D
Both Guillermo (Felipe Ocaña) and the man who played Miguel (name unknown) were actual jungle gui [...] D
Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Carl Gabriel Yorke were opposed to the real anim [...] D
The uncredited actress who played the female executive was Robert Kerman's then-girlfriend. D
Although Ruggero Deodato has always said that real animal deaths were improvised in the moment in or [...] D
Originally given an "X" rating by the MPAA in the U.S. the rating was later surrendered making the f [...] D
Filmmakers Oliver Stone and Eli Roth are both fans of this film. The village that burns down in Plat [...] D
The second film of Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Trilogy". D
Some film sites attribute the character of the impaled native woman to Italian actress Luigina Rocch [...] D