Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · 96 min · Horror · TMDB 6.3
The short version:The found-footage ur-text, and the hard limit for many viewers: real animals were killed on camera, and the staged sexual violence is extreme.
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Scare profile
Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.
Scary3
Not scaryExtreme
Dread4
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares1
NoneConstant
Disturbing5
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim5
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
What is in it
Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- CannibalismHeavyeditorial
- Graphic goreHeavyeditorial
- Realistic, grounded violenceHeavyeditorial
- TortureHeavyeditorial
Children & pregnancy
- Pregnancy & childbirth traumaModerateeditorial
Sexual content & violence
- Sexual assaultHeavyeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- Multiple rapes, including a gang rape, are staged in detail.
Animals
- Animal harmed or killedHeavyeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A turtle, a monkey, a pig, a snake and others are genuinely killed on screen. This is not simulated.
- Animals as the threatModerateinferred from keywords
Body & medical
- Vomiting & gross-outModerateinferred from keywords
Abuse & bigotry
- Racism & hate violenceModerateeditorial
Phobias & sensory
- Shaky cam & found footageModerateinferred from keywords
- SnakesModerateinferred from keywords
- Spiders & insectsModerateinferred from keywords
Religion & the occult
- Cults & religious extremismModerateinferred from keywords