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Film Details
92 min / 1.85:1
English Mono
Cast and Creators
Ruggero Deodato
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About the Film
For his follow-up to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time: David Hess of THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy stars as a charismatic psychopath who, with his equally unhinged sidekick (Giovanni Lombardo Radice of CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), turns a get-together of chic New Yorkers into an ordeal of class warfare and sexual violence. Annie Belle (ABSURD), Christian Borromeo (TENEBRAE) and Lorraine De Selle (WILD BEASTS) co-star in this notorious DPP 39 Video Nasty from the screenwriters of THE NEW YORK RIPPER with an unforgettable soundtrack by Riz Ortolani, now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative with 3+ hours of all-new Special Features.
[3-Disc Blu-ray w/Slipcover] Special Features:
Disc 1:
- Audio Commentary By Bruce Holecheck (Cinema Arcana) and Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent)
- The Man Who Loved Women: Interview With Director Ruggero Deodato
- Lights On: Interview With Cinematographer Sergio D'Offizi
- Like A Prairie Dog: Interview With Actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- External Beauty & Internal Ugliness: Archival Interview With David Hess
- House Sweet House: Interview With Set Designer Antonello Geleng
- Trailer
Disc 2:
- DEODATO HOLOCAUST: Feature-length documentary by Felipe M. Guerra that explores the film-by-film triumphs, tragedies and controversies of Ruggero Deodato
- Deleted Scenes
- Trailer
Disc 3: CD Soundtrack
Additional Special Feature: Reversible Artwork
Disc Specs:
- Disc 1: Region A / Disc 2: Region Free
- Run time: 92 minutes
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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.
