Cannibal Holocaust — Review

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Cast: Robert Kerman / Francesca Ciardi / Perry Pirkanen

Directors: Ruggero Deodato

Writers: Gianfranco Clerici / Giorgio Stegani

Official Genre & Subgenre: Adventure / Horror

My take: Horror / Splatter

Synopsis: During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Review: I can’t even remember how I stumbled across this film. I was walking around, searching for something to put on, and then the next thing I knew, I was going down a string of Google searches and clicks and had decided to just give it a try.

What did I expect? Well, given the content warnings and articles I could find, I was expecting something extremely gory and hard to watch. I don’t often watch stuff like that — I have a low tolerance for gore/splatter/torture type stuff anymore, but it’s sort of like food, right? Every so often, you try something to know if you like it now or still would rather not.

The film is part found footage and part regular footage, which I haven’t seen a terrible amount of (aside from maybe two minutes of framing at the beginning, like Grave Encounters.) I think that worked well in the favor of the…