History Film / CannibalHolocaust

In 2020, to celebrate the film's [[MilestoneCelebration 40th Anniversary]], a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkOCneiCMY video game sequel]], titled ''Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare'' (titled as ''Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal'' early in development), was announced. The game is developed by Fantastico Studio under the direction of Deodato himself. It will be released for UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, Steam, and mobile.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted; six genuine animal deaths are shown on-camera:
** Two of them come from the scene where they cut off a monkey's face with a machete, because it was actually shot twice. You read that right.
** A coatimundi (mistaken as a muskrat in the film) has its jugular veins cut open by Miguel.
** A large turtle (about three feet long) is captured in the water and dragged to shore, where it is then decapitated and its limbs, shell, and entrails are removed. The turtle is then cooked and eaten.
** A large spider and a snake are killed with a machete.
** A pet pig owned by one of the Yacumo children is kicked twice and then shot.
*** Luckily, [=DVDs=] and Blu-Rays of the film distributed by Grindhouse Releasing give the viewer an option to watch an "Animal Cruelty-Free" version of the movie, in which all of these scenes are removed.

** Subverted with the Yamamamo, who might appear to be this from an outsider's perspective, but they're actually quite reasonable and friendly to outsiders. They only cross into this territory if the outsiders piss them off enough.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Yamamamo Tribe are friendly towards those who are respectful, even sharing food with and befriending travelers and it would be a VERY dumb idea to get on their bad side.

* BigDamnHeroes: Munroe and his company arrive in Yamamamo territory just as a foraging party is being attacked by Shamatari raiders. They open fire on the raiders, driving them off, and thus earn themselves safe passage.
* BigGood: The Yamamamo Tribe are the closest thing to this, just [[BewareTheNiceOnes don’t make them angry.]]
* BlackComedy: Munroe's expression after his effort to exchange the documentary footage for his own recorder gets him invited for dinner ''by the cannibals'' instead.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Even before it is revealed Alan Yates and his crew [[spoiler:were horrible people who did evil things to the Yanomamo tribe]], the film leaves one subtle hint predicting it. When Dr. Munroe is interviewing all the people who knew Alan Yates and his friends, they all have nothing but negative things to say about them. In addition, when Munroe's crew finds Yates's footage, the Yanomamo have placed it far from their village for fear it contains dark magic.

* HatedByAll: When Professor Munroe interviews everyone who personally knows Alan Yates following his death, just about all of them have nothing good to say about him.

* KickTheDog: When the film crew arrives in the Yacumo tribe’s village, Mark shoots a piglet for no reason.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Yamamamo are a tribe with very disturbing tendencies towards cannibalism and rape, to be sure, but they're ultimately a society like any other with an understandable moral code and won't harm people unless attacked themselves. In contrast, the [[spoiler: film crew are revealed to actually be depraved psychopaths that deliberately commit atrocities against the group in order to gain footage for their documentary.]]

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* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:While the film crew had done plenty of ugly things to the natives, the Yanomamo tribe finally set out to kill the filmmakers when one of them is gang-raped by the crew, leading to one of the most horrific revenge scenes ever filmed.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: One of composer Music/RizOrtolani's specialties. The lead motif is disturbingly serene and cheerful. And it is played during the burning of the Yacumo village. Here's the [[https://youtu.be/GCYndZn6wuk lovely theme itself]]... and this is from a gory flick involving cannibals!
* StupidEvil: Alan Yates and his crew mistreat and provoke the Yamamamo tribe far too much, resulting in their own deaths.

* {{Satire}}: The film was intended as a satire on sensationalism in the media with little regard for journalistic integrity.

''Cannibal Holocaust'' (1980) is a controversial [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror {{film}} directed by Ruggero Deodato, telling the tale of four documentarians who journey deep into the Amazon rainforest to film the indigenous tribes. When they fail to return, anthropologist Harold Monroe leads a second expedition to rescue the first group. He ultimately finds their lost cans of film, through which he learns of both what the filmmakers got up to during filming, and their grisly fate.

Controversy followed this infamous "[[VideoNasties video nasty]]''; after its premiere in Italy, the film was seized and Deodato arrested on obscenity charges. He was later accused of making a {{snuff film}} due to rumors that actors were killed on camera. While he was cleared on all charges, the film was banned in Italy, [[VideoNasties the UK]], Australia (where it was eventually passed uncut), and several other countries due to its graphic depiction of gore, sexual violence, and the inclusion of six genuine animal deaths.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The executives at the television network. They already knew that Alan's past work had questionable and staged footage to "spice things up". When confronted with Yates' crimes documented in the recovered footage, they are still in favor of airing the documentary and dismiss what his crew has done as "overdoing it".

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Professor Monroe asks a television executive who already knew Yates' had a reputation for staging events and who still is in favor of airing Alan's documentary one:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Professor Monroe asks a television executive who is in favor of airing Alan's documentary one:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Professor Monroe asks a television executive who is in favor of airing Alan's documentary one:
-->'''Professor Monroe:''' Would you like people to make money off your misery?

** The [[spoiler:deaths of the entire film crew]] could have been avoided had they simply taken extra firepower (such as AK-47s), or had simply brought more bullets for their existing guns. Or if they had simply stuck together as a group, had a plan of escape and followed through with it.

** The [[spoiler:deaths of the entire film crew]] could have been avoided had they simply taken extra firepower (such as AK-47s), or had simply brought more bullets for their existing guns.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Professor Monroe asks a television executive, who is in favor of airing Alan's documentary, one:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Professor Monroe asks a television executive in favor of airing Alan's documentary asks one: