Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe, an anthropologist who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers that have gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes. Produced as part of the contemporary cannibal trend of Italian exploitation cinema, Cannibal Holocaust was inspired by Italian media coverage of Red Brigades terrorism. Deodato believed the news reports to be staged, an idea that became an integral aspect of the... Wikipedia

• Director:  Ruggero Deodato
• Produced by:  Franco Di Nunzio, Franco Palaggi
• Writer(s):  Gianfranco Clerici
• Starring:  Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Luca Barbareschi, Perry Pirkanen
• Music:  Riz Ortolani
• Cinematography:  Sergio D'Offizi
• Edited by:  Vincenzo Tomassi
• Production, company:  F.D. Cinematografica
• Distributed by:  United Artists Europa
• Released:  February 07, 1980
• Running time:  96 minutes
• Country:  Italy
• Language:  English, Spanish
• Budget:  US$100,000