The Story of the Banned Horror Movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’

Found disturbing because of the scenes and stories they contain in the history of cinema, there are many banned movies. In fact, some of these films made so much noise that lawsuits came with them.

One of these banned and terrifying movies is Cannibal Holocaust. This 1980 film tells the story of the disappearance of a documentary crew that went to shoot in the Amazon jungle. However, the death, violence, sexual harassment and animal slaughter scenes in the movie are so ‘bad’ that the director of the movie was sued for many crimes such as murder.

Let’s take a closer look at the subject of Cannibal Holocaust

An anthropologist and his team go in search of the missing documentary crew after a four-man crew goes missing in the Amazon to film a documentary about indigenous tribes. Although the anthropologist and his team continue their search, they cannot find the film crew. boxes with the images taken by the team. they reach.

The anthropologist and his team watching the films, documentary after his team ‘disturbed’ a tribe bitterly learns that they have met the cannibal face of this tribe…

The film’s controversial storyline led to the director being charged with multiple crimes, including murder.

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The plot of the movie may not seem that ‘horrifying’ when you just read it. But blood, violence, murder, cannibalism, sexual assault and animal slaughter When the motto of the movie, ‘the best effect is the real thing’, was added to the images containing it, the discussions did not delay.

As soon as the film premiered, it was found ‘obscene’ due to the scenes in it and prohibited. A lawsuit was also filed against the director of the film. The film was banned in more than 50 countries and broke records in this field.

On top of this development, in all the animal death scenes in the movie, there really is no need for animals. brutally tortured and killed As the information came, there were greater reactions. Immediately afterwards, allegations were made that the actors who died in the ‘impairing’ scene in the movie were actually killed, and a murder case was filed against the director. The images in the movie were so realistic and terrifying.

Why was the claim that players were killed taken seriously?

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Of course, the fact that the scenes were too realistic was not the only reason for the claim that the actors died. He also died in the movie long absence of players and the lack of media coverage strengthened these claims. However, the reason for this situation was an agreement signed with the players. According to this agreement, the actors would not appear in public for a year after the release of the movie.

This is because in the movie The ‘cannibalistic murder of the crew going to the documentary’ makes the story seem more realistic. was to provide. However, this decision, as you can see, backfired and caused more trouble for the director.

Scenes of six animals brutally killed were sadly real

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Six different animals are brutally slaughtered in the movie and unfortunately for these scenes the animals were actually killed.

• Coati, a rodent species, was killed with a knife.
• A turtle was killed by having its head cut off and its internal organs removed
• A tarantula and a boa constrictor were slaughtered with a machete.
• A pig was killed by being shot in the head with a rifle.
• A monkey was killed by beheading (two monkeys were brutally murdered because this scene was shot twice)

The movie was accused of being a ‘snuff movie’ because of these allegations: So what is a snuff movie?

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After the claim that the actors were actually killed in the movie, the production was accused of being a ‘snuff film’. snuff movie, torture and murder of actors during a sadistic act of sex The name given to pornographic films that are illegally produced and that result in

The director had to contact all the actors to prove they ‘lived’. In order to get rid of these allegations and be cleared by the court, the director of the movie contacted all the actors and said, have to prove that they are not dead left. For this, interviews were held with all the actors in the movie who died and the evidence was presented to the court. Then the director Murder charge dropped. In addition, the director had to explain how they made the ‘pile’ scene in court so realistic.

The shooting of the movie was also eventful and there were constant arguments on set.

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The production phase of such a shocking film was naturally eventful. There were constant arguments between the actors and director Ruggero Deodato. The reason was usually the actors’ objections to scenes such as rape and animal killing. However, according to the statements made by the actors in the movie, director Deodato did not listen to all these criticisms, he even shouted at his players, forcing them to do whatever he wanted.

Actor Robert Kerman, who plays the leading role of the movie and plays the anthropologist who goes to look for the team, talked about Deodato in his statements, where he talked about the constant fights with the director during the filming and the director’s treatment of the team very badly. ‘sadistic’ ‘no soul’ ‘brutal’ commemorated with such expressions.

In other words, although the director did not cause the actors to die, we cannot say that the director, who was acquitted of all his crimes, is innocent, considering the animals that died during the shooting of this scary movie, the violence and sexuality in which the actors unintentionally acted.

Despite everything, the film is among the ‘cult films’; Why?

Cannibal Holocaust, which we can refer to as a sub-genre of cinematic exploitation, was evaluated as an innovative structure for cinema culture, especially because of the method it uses to ‘find images’ and to clarify events. Later, this method was also used in Hollywood cinema. In addition, the film is known as the “peak production” among “cannibal films” and continues to hold this nickname.