



Restored Cannibal Holocaust Heading Back to U.S. Theaters Posted October 8, 2014 11:48 AM by



Independent distributors Grindhouse Releasing are sending director Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust back to U.S. theaters. The controversial film, which was recently restored, is already out on Blu-ray. Click on the link above to see our listing and review of this release.



Synopsis: Synopsis: Banned and heavily censored the world over, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shot-gun blast to the senses. Cannibal Holocaust presents the "found footage" of a group of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. This footage is so intense, so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of Cannibal Holocaust were arrested upon its original release and the film seized. With a soundtrack by Riz Ortolani.



U.S. Screenings:



10/10/2014  Landmark Uptown, Minneapolis, MN



10/10/2014  Landmark Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia, PA



10/11/2014  Landmark Uptown, Minneapolis, MN



10/11/2014  Landmark Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia, PA



10/17/2014  Landmark Esquire, Denver



10/17/2014  Landmark Tivoli, St. Louis



10/17/2014  Landmark Main Art, Detroit



10/18/2014  Landmark Esquire, Denver



10/18/2014  Landmark Tivoli, St. Louis



10/18/2014  Landmark Main Art, Detroit



10/24/2014  Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington DC



10/24/2014  Landmark Inwood, Dallas



10/24/2014  Landmark Sunshine, NYC



10/25/2014  Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington DC



10/25/2014  Landmark Inwood, Dallas



10/25/2014  Landmark Sunshine, NYC



11/14/2014  Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA









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Top reviewer Gardenofstone10 Oct 08, 2014 Might have to go to the Detroit screening next week!

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Top contributor MikaLove Oct 08, 2014 It's so funny that they can release this movie uncut and uncensored and now also re-screen it in theaters.

But they will not even release the FULL version of Malèna.

I guess this is proof that hate, violence, death and evil in general triumphs over love, sex and intimacy.

Malèna (for example) is a beautiful movie and there's nothing wrong with it. While I would actually not want to watch this movie, because of cruelty towards real, live animals.

I simply detest violence and especially if it's real. I mean, there are ways to fake it but still get a message through. Then again, I have known a long time that humans seem to demand violence, so yeah, there's an audience for it...

So many people are so totally oddly wired. But there's another depth to this "phenomenon" as well. IMO it's based on Christianity and the wicked way it has been practiced by some, and forced onto others.

Just my 2 cents.



(I'm not saying this movie should be forever censored (I'm totally against any kind of censorship) or that it's sick or immoral to watch or even like it, but I just want to understand why some love themes and sexuality is censored and in fact hated on, mostly in the U.S. (but that trend is spreading worldwide), while cruel, wanton violence isn't.)

JoeBuck Oct 08, 2014 Nothing cruel or wanton about butchering an animal for food which all of these animals were. They weren't treated any worse than when the natives killed them and they were all eaten afterwards.

I still see no reason why people get so angry over one movie showing a daily event. Might not be pleasant but still a reality.

Definitely agree about the aprehensions towards sexuality though

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Top contributor MikaLove Oct 09, 2014 @JoeBuck: I question two things, in case you missed it; was it necessary to make that scene, still, in a movie (for entertainment value) with a real, live and very rare animal? And torturing it to death?

It's one thing I mean that Mel Gibson gets away with making a movie about the Mayans depicting them as super violent and missing the actual interesting parts about that ancient culture, but at least it was all effects. And the other thing I question is why people seem to defend violence so much, as it is depicted and honestly, frankly often cherished or made look like "necessary" in e.g. movies about my most hated topic, being revenge. (Kill Bill, Sin City, etc, etc.) It just manifests that people are so much more about a society full of hate, animosity, revenge and intolerance, than it is about constructive things based on respect and humanity.

I mean, we have lived tens of thousands of years, yet still we behave like cavemen about very general, natural things.

The ignorance is staggering, about certain issues in society which we view as sick, abnormal or whatever, but which are tied to our human core as much and if not more than the tribal people depicted in the above movie, for example.

So I think it's time to embrace who we are and stop showing our worst sides all the time.

Then again, nowadays people are so totally brainwashed. I don't think a lot of them are capable of thinking on their own and individually.

I'd say there's an increase in tolerance towards violence, which may be harder to see, than the quite obvious intolerance against certain sexuality that isn't generally accepted (yet). This is more serious than some may think. It's about our survival and where we'll go next.

We have very real things right next to us today, with the war on terror and all that and how we look at that. While sex and sexuality is a nuisance to us, unless it's of the aforementioned "abnormal" kind, when people become very hostile and hateful. Although what they react upon is something that has been with us forever and which always will, because it's Mother Nature - and it's not "violence" or being mentally ill...



In short, anger, which may lead to violence, is one of our two strongest drives and urges, but needs to be controlled and we need to find alternate outlets rather than direct physical outlets, since it can do SUCH harm. But our other greatest drive, sexuality, has never alone (aka intrinsically) hurt anyone, yet still we twist things around and make sexuality a "weapon" worse than terror, when sexuality is there mostly for our survival and also for a lot of fun! =) So, there's a huge difference between sex and violence, because we tend to think about violence as "a part of us" while we view sex as harmful, most often. It's the total opposite! That is a fact. However there are some movie makers (directors, producers) that thrive on this way of twisting things around. Making violence natural and sexuality harmful and "despicable". Fincher, Tarantino, Rodriguez, Miller... Consistently adding fuel to the fire but are cherished for it.

I wish I could've use fewer words to say all this, but being concise isn't my forte.

dawnofdave Oct 09, 2014 Hey Grindhouse Releasing, Chicago IL is a city too you know...

JoeBuck Oct 09, 2014 Where was it tortured? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you've never seen the film because in the one I saw they cut ots head clean off. At the time of the filming there was nothing uncommon about this at all, the people of the area ate river turtles on a daily basis and the director used the same kind because he knew the locals would buy it to make their soup.

And in case you were wondering they used real animals because the producers wanted to sell it to the Malaysian market where documentaries with animals killing eachother were (and still are) very popular.

Both sex AND violence are natural occurences in daily life and have been since the beginning of time, neither should be shyed away from because that's life, choosing to ball out a film for depicting one or the other is ridiculous. DionJits Oct 09, 2014 Marie Harf, is that you?



So, there I was, clicking on a story on the theatrical release of "Cannibal Holocaust," and lo and behold, I had somehow stumbled into some alt-world enlightenment lecture from what appears to be someone who clearly plans to drop some wow-never-heard-that-before knowledge on all of us Neanderthals who would be so barbaric, ugly, and evil as to have an interest in the above-referenced dreck.



With the practiced arrogance of one eager to show others their flaws while simultaneously displaying a jarring lack of self-awareness of the myriad flaws in their own system of belief -- all with a smug, Oberlin-rehearsed flick of the hair -- this poster will spend the rest of the day hugging random individuals on the street, passing out flowers, and, in a soft and lilting voice, pronounce dew-eyed accusations against anyone who fails to agree with the poster's oh-so-elevated wisdom, all wrapped up in a warm blanket of arrogant self-satisfaction.



Do you own that soapbox, or is it a rental?

BobbyPeru Oct 09, 2014 All I know is I enjoy plenty of sex and violence in my movies. I can never get enough smut and gore. The more the better ! The only thing I hate are boring-ass movies and people preaching to me !

Goremeister100 Oct 10, 2014 Not a date flick. She'll think you're one sick puppy and she's probably right.

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Top contributor MikaLove Oct 13, 2014 DionJits: Seriously. Who the hell are you replying to and what the hell are you preaching about...?



I guess trolls be here. Just like on YouTube and even on Imdb message board.



If that comment was for me, you're barking up the wrong fucking tree, bro.



PS. No, I haven't seen Cannibal Holocaust, because it's not my type of movie.

I own another one though, which does include a scene of torturing an animal to death (a small bird). Maladolescenza. I don't like that at all.

Regardless, my point wasn't necessarily that they tortured the turtle to its death. That was just something I heard. Someone must have interpreted the scene like that. But I do object to killing live animals in movies. But... THAT wasn't my point either. Just that I want to shine a light on the hypocrisy that is movie industry morality. Releasing and making ultra violent movies and even giving them much praise, while movies with a sexual/pornographic theme don't fare as well, often not even in the eyes of the audience. It's like sex is "as bad" or even worse than violence. And yeah, violence is "a part of nature", but not like sexuality. Because sexuality is positive while violence most often isn't. You cannot compare the two. Not in that sense. Easy analogy though; look at the Christians in the early days. They were often VERY violent and brutal in their strive to turn everyone into Christians, while religion is often very hateful against sexuality... This was a couple of thousand years ago, but we haven't changed much since then. I think people are more likely to be violent and hate, than to be loving and all that "fluffy" stuff.

I think DionJits is proof of this. Especially if he was addressing me. That would also mean that he's ignorant, because he didn't even bother to see my point. Purely a defensive mechanism, for some reason.

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