Cannibal Holocaust

Written by:
Gianfranco Clerici (also story)
Giorgio Stegani (dialogue) (Italian version)

Directed by:
Ruggero Deodato

Made in:
Italy & Colombia in 1980

Actors:
Robert Kerman .... Professor Harold Monroe
Francesca Ciardi .... Tina 'Faye' Daniels
Perry Pirkanen .... Jack Anders
Luca Barbareschi .... Mark Tomasso (as Luca Giorgio Barbareschi)
Salvatore Basile .... Chaco Losojos
Ricardo Fuentes .... Felipe Ocanya
Carl Gabriel Yorke .... Alan Yates (as Gabriel Yorke)
Paolo Paoloni .... Chief NY Executive
Lionello Pio Di Savoia .... Executive (as Pio Di Savoia)
Luigina Rocchi .... Native

Plot:
A New York anthropologist, named Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman), travels to the wild, inhospitable jungles of South American with two local guides to find out what happened to a documentary film crew which disappeared nearly a year earlier while traveling into the same jungle, called the 'Green Inferno' to film a documentary about reputed cannibal tribes. After a long search and encountering a few primitive tribes, Professor Moore finds the remains of the crew and several reels of their undeveloped film. Upon returning to the USA, Professor Moore views the film in detail featuring the travels of the director Alan Yates (Gabriel York), his assistant Faye Daniels (Francesa Ciardi), and cameramen Jack Anders (Perry Pirkanen) and Mark Tomaso (Luca Giorgio Barbareschi) venturing into the jungles where the inexperienced, street-wise film group, after finding the indigenous tribes to docile for their film, decide to push them for kicks, with drastic consequences. IMDB

Review:
This is the Queen of all Italian Cannibal movies!

Outstanding effects, the charming, horribly dubbed English, fun music, and the best cannibal plot possible.

If you only ever see one, let it be this one.

Banned in: Australia, Singapore, Norway, Iceland, UK (until 2001), probably banned in Sweden.

Language is dubbed into English.

Some fun facts:

• The special effects in the film were so realistic that director Ruggero Deodato reportedly had to go to court and prove that it was just make-up and fake blood and guts.
• The animal slaughterings in the movie were real, which resulted in the movie's being banned in its native Italy.
• The film caused some scandal in Italy at the time, and had trouble with the censorship board. There was a rumor that the performers had really been slain, so director Ruggero Deodato had to take the actors with him to the set of an Italian TV show in order to prove that they hadn't been eaten alive.
• The in-film-documentary "The Last Road To Hell", which features several executions, consists of authentic footage supposedly from Uganda.
• This movie has gained the title of the most notorious movie of all-time, holding the world record for the movie banned in the most countries (in almost 60 countries).