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▲{{quote| ''Eaten alive! The ultimate terror movie...''<br />
Controversy followed this infamous
▲''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' (1980) is a controversial [[Exploitation Film|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 ultimately learns of their grisly fate.
▲Controversy followed this infamous "[[Video Nasties|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, 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.
In 1981 a rip-off was made by Umberto Lenzi called ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]''.
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* [[An Aesop]]: "I wonder who the real cannibals are?"
* [[The Amazon]]
* [[Asshole Victim]]: To quote one review, "[the film crew] ''more than earned their fate.''"
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]{{context}}
* [[Are We Getting This?]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Alan Yates.
* [[B-Movie]]
* [[Banned in China]]: And a whole lot of other countries. The most notable exceptions were Japan, where it was slapped with an R-18 rating, and the United States, where the only penalty for its depiction of gore was the dreaded X rating (issued by the MPAA). Eventually, a few more countries (most notably Australia) passed it uncut. As of May 2011, the UK's only problem with the film is the turtle, monkey and snake being killed onscreen (though a cut version has been released with the highest UK rating).
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: The young documentarian's work is an in-universe example.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: {{spoiler|Felipe, the South American guide, is the first member of Yates' team to die.}}
* [[Cannibal Tribe]]
* [[Captured
* [[Chased
* [[Covered in Gunge]]
* [[Crapsack World]]{{context}}
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Obviously.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dr. Harold Monroe.
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** Also a bit of an in-character aspect as well. The film crew doesn't understand the faux pas of any of the tribes they terrorize. {{spoiler|Not that they particularly care, of course, as they're intentionally adding their own details. They just want to make the natives look as savage as possible.}}
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: ''Cannibal Holocaust'' is known for criticizing sensationalism while being highly sensationalistic.
* [[Enemy to All Living Things]]{{context}}
* [[Euroshlock]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Faye, one of the crew members, objects to a young native woman being gang-raped.
* [[Everything's Better
** Which is made even worse when you realize they killed a real monkey.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Exploitation Film]]
* [[Extreme Melee Revenge]]{{context}}
* [[Fantastic Racism]]{{context}}
* [[Fan Disservice]]
* [[In-Universe Camera]]: The second half of the film.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]{{context}}
* [[Forever War]]: The Yanamono and the Shamatari, the Tree People and the Swamp People respectively. These tribes have been going since the dawn of time and are still locked in a fierce war of rape, murder, and cannabalism.
* [[Genocide Backfire]]{{context}}
* [[Gorn]]: Many scenes were believable enough (at the time) to result in the arrest of the director on suspicions that he'd made a snuff film.
* [[Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death]]
* [[Groin Attack]]{{context}}
* [[Heal It
* [[Horrible Camping Trip]]{{context}}
* [[Horror Films]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Guess.
* [[Impaled
* [[Kill'Em All]]
* [[Made of Plasticine]]
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]
* [[Names to Run Away From]] - The title of this movie.
** The name of the movie can be seen in the [[Gorillaz
* [[National Geographic Nudity]]
* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]: Brutally Averted; six genuine animal deaths are shown on-camera.
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** A pig is kicked twice and then shot.
* [[Noble Savage]]: While not exactly the prime example of this trope, the natives are certainly not evil. They allow the search party to look for the film crew and as soon as they follow the rules and show respect to the tribe, they're welcome and accepted. {{spoiler|The only reason they killed and ate the film crew was because they killed many of their tribesmen and raped one of their girls.}}
* [[Psycho Strings]]{{context}}
* [[Peek
* [[Rape and Revenge]]
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] {{spoiler|The film crew burning down the Yacumo village to stage a scene for their documentary. In fact, all of the film crew's actions; in a literal way, they managed to score each of the three.}}
* [[Revenge]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: The Yanomamo tribe in the end.
* [[Satire]]
* [[The Savage South]]: Cannibals, dangerous animals, and diseases, oh my!
* [[Send in
* [[Snuff Film]]: The filmmakers were put on trial for murder until they could prove that, yes, the actors in question were still alive and well. In fact [[Too Dumb to Live|the producers had had it written in the main actors' contracts that they stay in hiding for an entire year to keep the illusion that they had indeed died as a publicity stunt.]]
* [[The Sociopath]]: Alan Yates and, likely, the rest of the film crew.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The lead motif is disturbingly serene and cheerful. And it is played during the burning of Yacumo village.
* [[The Hunter Becomes the Hunted]]{{context}}
* [[This Is My Boomstick]]: A spatial, rather than temporal, example.
* [[Torture Porn]]
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* [[Viral Marketing]]: The movie advertised itself as a true story, and the actors were contractually bound to avoid public appearances as to keep people think it was real. [[The Blair Witch Project|Remember anything?]] It worked [[Gone Horribly Right|too well]] since the director was arrested for multiple murder until he could prove that it was just a movie - which he had to void the original contracts of the actors to accomplish.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Then, all discretion is averted.
* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]{{context}}
* [[Western Terrorists]]
* [[You Bastard]]: [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|Isn't it convenient that every film that comports to be a critique about sensationalism is generally wildly sensationalist?]]
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Horror Films]]
[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
[[Category:Video Nasties]]
[[Category:Found Footage Films]]
▲[[Category:Cannibal Holocaust]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Cult Classic]]
[[Category:Cannibal film]]
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