![]() ![]() I don’t think that’s a spoiler as I picked up on the similarities straight away and was pleased to see Deodato credited after the finale. If you skip to the end of “We Eat Our Own” Kea Wilson notes that she “owes a special debt to Ruggero Deodato’s amazing film ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ and the aftermath of its release, which provided a starting point for my imagination”. In the UK it was banned from video release in the early 1980s and for many years after in the ‘Video Nasties’ campaign led by Mary Whitehouse who had the nation getting their knickers in a twist. The history of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ is well documented and its worldwide notoriety needs no introduction. Of course, serious horror fans know that ‘The Blair Witch’ did not invent the found footage film, it began in 1980 with the infamous ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ directed by Ruggero Deodato. Thus creating the ‘found footage’ style of film later made famous by ‘The Blair Witch Project’. This film features cannibals, and shortly the reader realises that the structure of director Ugo Velluto nasty little film adds a new element to the already jaded cannibal sub-genre of horror films, he is making a ‘film within a film’. The premise should be familiar to any serious fan of horror: an Italian film director makes a horror film in the Colombian jungle. ![]()
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