Cannibal Holocaust
They eat and they are eaten!
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.
- Director
- Ruggero Deodato
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
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14 billed performers
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Cannibal Holocaust returned 20.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $100,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Feb 7, 1980
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- Colombia, Italy
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