Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · Italy · 95m
A serious film about media atrocity that committed real atrocity.
Films whose legend outran them: banned, prosecuted, or argued about for forty years by people who mostly have not seen them.
A serious film about media atrocity that committed real atrocity.
Lenzi chasing Deodato with none of the argument. Real animal deaths, no defence.
Not staged, which makes it far worse. A repellent document.
Shot on the leftover Hogan's Heroes set. Nothing here is defensible; it's catalogued, not recommended.
Bergman's Virgin Spring, brutalised. Genuinely unpleasant and knows it. Tonally a mess.
Mostly fake, entirely cynical, and a rental-shop legend regardless.