Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Horror Rated 18 Spoiler Free Someone's cooking downstairs, it smells fantastic and that is distracting me somewhat because I'm obsessing about what my dinner will be. I made a prawn curry the other day, maybe that, but will it be as delicious as whatever I can smell? Or human flesh, like Cannibal Holocaust advertises? Advertises is probably a strong word; the actual production of human meat looks like an expensive pain in the arse according to Ruggero Deodarto’s loved/loathed video nasty. For a start you need to find some American filmmakers and fly them to the Amazon where it’s apparently Ok to carve up and consume people. I’m not rich or in the Amazon, but I am an amateur butcher and wouldn’t mind the practice. I bought the restored Blu Ray release of Cannibal Holocaust because I listened to a RedHanded (who are a brilliant true crime podcast) episode and they documented the film’s absolutely unbelievable creation and existence. I’d seen the film some time ago but probably
