![]() He also believed that some news angles were actually staged to capture more sensational footage, hence the similar angle seen in the film. Deodato was inspired to make the movie after seeing his son watching the violent news on TV and noticed how the journalists focus on the violence.The in-film-documentary, "The Last Road To Hell", which features several executions, consists of authentic footage supposedly from Nigeria and South East Asia.The killed animals were a coatimundi (erroneously referred to as a muskrat in the film), a turtle, a snake, a tarantula, a spider monkey, and a pig. The animal slaughterings in the movie were real, which ultimately resulted in the movie's being banned in its native Italy after the snuff film rumors were proved false.The film remained banned in Italy for another three years. He presented the actors, alive and well, to the courts, and thus, the murder charges were dropped. ![]() Deodato contacted Luca Barbareschi and told him to contact the three other actors who played the missing film team. He was later charged with murder and faced life in prison on the belief that several of the actors were murdered for the camera. ![]() Ten days after premiering in Milan, the film was seized by the courts, and the director, Ruggero Deodato, was arrested and charged with obscenity. The film caused some scandal in Italy at the time of its release.Cannibal Holocaust (1980) was the second highest grossing film in Japan in 1983, behind only E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
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