Paramedics were supposedly called to numerous screenings, and rumors that people died of heart attacks watching some of the movie’s intense scenes persist to this day. Heads do not roll so much as rotate around, 360-degrees.Ĭontroversy: The self-mutilating crucifix masturbation, the film-long buffet of sacrilege, “your mother sucks cocks in hell” – even audiences who had become accustomed to the loosening of restrictions on sex and violence were shocked by William Friedkin’s the-devil-made-her-do-it horror movie. Holy men are called to rid her of the unholy spirit.
It turns out that, well, she’s possessed by a demon. begins exhibiting some incredibly odd behavior. Synopsis: A young girl in Washington D.C. His name was cleared, and his space in the fake-snuff-film hall of fame was cemented.
The filmmaker had to track down his actors and bring them before the jury so they could explain that they had not, in fact, been slaughtered during the production. When the film ran in France, Photo magazine alleged that the extensive ritual-sacrifice sequences were the real deal, and the courts threw a murder charge on Deodato for good measure.
An anthropologist leads an expedition to recover the documentarians who went looking for the indigenous tribes of maneaters rumored to be hiding around the jungle they then find savagery beyond their wildest imagining, including an infamous sequence of a young woman impaled on a wooden stake and numerous examples of why the movie is named Cannibal Holocaust.Ĭontroversy: After 10 glorious days of release (during which the film generated a staggering $200 million0, the film was pulled from theaters and Italian director Ruggero Deodato was slapped with obscenity charges. Synopsis: Square one of horror’s found-footage subgenre, this alleged “lost tape” from an American film crew trekking into the Amazon crossed every line it could reach.