Where Everyone Has Gone Before #24: 'Cannibal Holocaust'

Filed under: Columns, Horror, Cinematical

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Welcome to Where Everyone Has Gone Before](http://blog.moviefone.com/tag/Where+Everyone+Has+Gone+Before/), the weekly column where I continue my film education before your very eyes by seeking out and watching all of the movies I should have seen by now. I will first judge the movie before I’ve watched it, based entirely on its reputation (and my potentially misguided thoughts). Then I will give the movie a fair chance and actually watch it. You will laugh at me, you may condemn me, but you will never say I didn’t try!*

The Film:Cannibal Holocaust’ (1980), Dir. Ruggero Deodato

Starring: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Luca Barbareschi.

** Why I Haven’t Seen It Until Now:** I have a serious moral quandary with one of the more infamous aspects of this film. But we’ll get to that momentarily. It also has something to do with me being a little behind on my Italian horror cinema, but that answer just makes me look lame.

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