Cannibal Holocaust Directors Cut ( 1980)
The director was put on trial for murder! The first "found film" movie is an endurance test not an "entertainment". Not for sensitive types!
When Ruggero Deodato decided to become a filmmaker, the last thing he would have expected was to be charged with murder. Indeed, the last thing the film industry expected was Cannibal Holocaust. At first, just one of many Italian exploitation movies that were cheap, violent, and sexual, it very quickly drew attention in the vein of Andy Warhol: don’t wo…
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