Chunky Larry's Creature Features

Chunky Larry's Creature Features


Creature Features Episode 14: Cannibal Holocaust

November 23, 2015

In the early part of 1980 Director Ruggero Deodato played a dangerous game of perception that nearly cost him his freedom when he released a film that blurred the lines of reality. The picture was presented as a documentary of the ugliness of human nature set in the jungles of Peru and would go on to live in infamy among the baddest of the bad and still stands as a reminder of what it looks like to cross the line of responsible filmmaking. On February 7th, 1981 Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust was released giving audiences a film with teeth