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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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Feb 18, 2010 – Feb 20, 2010
Daily (midnight)
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- Price
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$9.99
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Upon its 1980 release, this long-banned exploitation title left director Ruggero Deodato in a thorny situation with Italian authorities who thought he had made a snuff film rather than a brutal cult film. The main reason for this is Deodato's believe-it-or-not use of shaky, handheld cameras to bolster the film's "authenticity," even though it captures medieval-level cruelty (think: ultraviolence upped ten notches). The plot itself is standard-issue now — four documentary filmmakers go to the Amazon to shoot the indigenous but soon disappear, leaving only a few tell-tale reels — but it's the whoa-inducing content that necessitates this disclaimer: what you are about to see will disturb you.
