CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST was for years reviled as one of the most repugnant and morally questionable of the 1970s spate of cannibal films--and possibly the most horrifying ever. But director Ruggero Deodato embarked upon the project with the intention of criticizing the very violence he was portraying. Set in the Amazonian jungles, the film is a pseudo-documentary that follows Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman) into the "Green Inferno" as he searches for a documentary crew that came to the jungle the previous year to make a film about the storied cannibals that lived there, and never made it back. Now, Moore meets some natives and discovers the footage from the crew's expedition, and upon returning to New York, he watches it to find out what really happened. The truth is too horrible for words, proving that savagery is not limited to indigenous peoples, and the morally outrageous film proceeds to indict the exploitative practices of certain documentary practices. However, the extremity of the violence portrayed was enough to put Deodato in hot water with the law, and with censors who claimed it was far too realistic. The career of the promising director, who had worked under a list of Italian luminaries that included Roberto Rossellini (ROME: OPEN CITY, PAISAN, VOYAGE IN ITALY), was essentially ended with this brutal, seminal film--for which he will nonetheless always be remembered.

DVD Features:

2-Disc Set
Region 0
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes: "The Making of CANNIABAL HOLOCAUST"
Music Video: Necrophaghia - "Cannibal Holocaust"
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary: Ruggero Deodato - Director, Robert Kerman - Star
Interviews:
1. Ruggero Deodato - Director
2. Robert Kerman - Star
3. Gabriel Yorke - Star
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay:
1. Original Shooting Script
2. Liner Notes
Stills/Photos:
1. Stills
2. Poster Art
Additional Products:
Fold-Out Insert in English - Original Poster Art, Liner Notes, Track Listings
Slipcover
Tracks:
1. Opening Credits
2. "Man is omnipotent"
3. Amazonia
4. Return to the Camp
5. Arrival of Monroe
6. Chacko
7. On the Trail
8. Leeches!
9. Discovering Filipe
10. "Tonight we eat meat!"
11. The Adultress
12. Miguel's Peace Offering
13. The Yacumo Village
14. Dinner with the Yacumos
15. Back on the Trail
16. The Shamatari vs. the Yacumos
17. Token of Gratitude
18. Experiment in Psychology
19. The Ghastly Remains
20. Monroe Makes a Move
21. Dinner with the Yanomamo
22. Back in New York
23. The Last Road to Hell
24. Terrible Prima Donnas
25. Colleagues and Family
26. Reel One
27. Sea Turtle
28. Reel Two
29. The Death of Filipe
30. Fame
31. Reel Three / Saved by the Anaconda
32. First Yacumo Encounter
33. The Yacumo Village
34. The Massacre of the Yacumos
35. In the Mood
36. "People want sensationalism"
37. Reel Four
38. Nature Recycles Everything
39. Social Surgery
40. Alan's Dream
41. Money from Misery
42. The Final Reels
43. Little Monkey
44. The Impalement
45. "They're all around us!"
46. Jack
47. Trapped
48. Faye
49. Alan
50. The Real Cannibals / End Credits

Robert Kerman: Actor
Francesca Ciardi: Actor, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980)
Carl Gabriel Yorke: Actor, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST/JACK THE BEAR

Ruggero Deodato: Italian Director/"Phantom..Death"