Most horrifying horror movie

Cannibal Holocaust could be the most controversial movie of all time. After the movie was premierred in the 1980's, it was seized by the courts, banned in some 50 countries, and its director, Ruggero Deodato, was charged and thrown to prison for murdering his actors as shown in the film. He was later released after he summoned his actors to appear in public. But the film (screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici and filmed in the Amazon rainforests), regarded as the best horror movie ever which spawned so many imitations, remained banned or censored in some countries, even as it reportedly became the biggest hit in Japan, second only to ET.

I watched the film a long time ago in VHS, when DVD was still unknown. And I really thought that it was semi-documentary because the scenes were very realistic. It had a lot of gore, nudity, obscenity, and cruely to man and animals. I even showed it to a friend and asked him to verify who among the characters were the real cannibals in the movie, because to me, it was the civilized urban characters who terrorized the uncivilized jungle natives.

The movie was about a university anthropologist who looked for a film crew which was reported missing after it left for the South American jungles to get a scholarly documentary on the lives of the jungle tribes who could be cannibals. With a lot of help from the locals, the anthropologist succeeded to recover reels of film of the missing crew. On his return to civilization, he learned of the tragic fate of the crew as shown in the reels of film recovered from the jungle tribe.

I happened to stumble on this movie again only lately in the internet. And it was only at that time when I fully understood that this Italian movie was indeed a fiction.

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