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94 min / 1.85:1
Cast and Creators
Ruggero Deodato
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About the Film
For his first film in 23 years, Ruggero Deodato – the legendary director of such ItaloSleaze classics as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK and RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS – explored a different breed of butchery inspired by the Perugia exchange student murder that shocked the world: After a wild night of sex, drugs and clubbing, a young woman, her boyfriend and his dealer pal wake to find her straight-laced roommate brutally murdered. But will what happens next reveal the most horrific secrets of all? Cinematographe.it calls Deodato’s ripped-from-the-headlines return “a disturbing thriller that’s violent, cynical and excessive,” featuring a pounding score by Claudio Simonetti (SUSPIRIA, DEMONS), with 2+ hours of startling new Special Features and available in America for the time ever.
Special Features:
- The Day After: Interview With Director/Writer Ruggero Deodato
- Midnight Mass Hysteria: Interview With Nina Burleigh, Author Of New York Times Bestseller
- The Fatal Gift Of Beauty: The Trials Of Amanda Knox
- It Happened In Perugia: Interview With Film Historian Fabio Melelli
- Things To Do In Perugia When You're Dead: Interview With Actress Noemi Smorra
- A Maestro At Work: Interview With Executive Producer Raffaele Mertes
- Behind The Scenes
- Trailers
Disc Specs:
- Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
- Audio: English Stereo
- English Subtitles
- Run time: 94 mins
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About the Director
Ruggero Deodato (1939–2022) built his reputation on films designed to make audiences deeply uncomfortable, and none more so than Cannibal Holocaust (1980) — a film so convincing in its violence that Deodato was briefly investigated on suspicion of having made an actual snuff film. He was cleared only by producing the "deceased" actors alive on Italian television.
Cannibal Holocaust's structure — a documentary crew's footage recovered after their disappearance in the Amazon — is now recognized as the direct ancestor of the found-footage genre that would explode decades later with The Blair Witch Project and everything after. The film's mix of staged mockumentary footage and real animal killings remains genuinely controversial, and it has been banned or heavily censored in numerous countries since its release.
Deodato worked steadily across the cannibal and post-apocalyptic genres through the 1980s (Cut and Run, House on the Edge of the Park), but it's Cannibal Holocaust that cemented his historical importance — a film that essentially invented a storytelling technique while remaining one of the most debated works in exploitation cinema. For collectors interested in the formal history of horror, his catalog is a direct line to how modern horror learned to fake reality.
