Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Parents Guide - IMDb
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Sex & Nudity

  • Lots of female full frontal nudity.
  • A man takes off all of his clothes and goes into a lake. His butt is shown for the whole time.
  • Tribal nudity is mostly present during the end of the film.
  • A couple talk about having sex. Later, they are shown after the act covered by blankets, but sex is never shown.
  • A man's penis is briefly shown for a split second while he's running.
  • A sex scene is implied. Nothing is shown however, and no nudity.
  • A man's penis is shown for a few seconds
  • This section contains all the incidents that take place in the movie. Some cuts of the movie are heavily censored, while others contain all of the above. The grindhouse releasing (the most available version) is partially edited
  • A village girl is raped by two separate men. Extremely graphic and disturbing.
  • A woman is raped by village people. Graphic and disturbing.
  • During the extremely graphic rape scenes, nudity is shown including genitalia.
  • There is very graphic sex in the movie with some focused upon nudity.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is dragged off a boat and onto a muddy shore. A rock is seen being smashed multiple times in between her thighs, followed by a larger object that appears to have points or be sharp. She is seen covered in mud and blood and is then struck in the head multiple times and appears to be dead. Then is dragged back to the boat.
  • A tribal member is killed by being hit many times with a bunch of stick like weapons
  • A couple acts of cannibalism depicting a group of tribal people eating human meat. Other acts of cannibalism are implied throughout. These aren't too graphic.
  • An abortion is shown in graphic detail.
  • A mans leg is cut off with a machete after a venomous snake bite. A bit bloody
  • Some natives are chased through the woods by soilders and are shot dead. One is taken captive.
  • A dead nude woman is shown impaled with a pole. Graphic up-close scene of the pole is shown as it sticks out of the woman's mouth.
  • After the characters exit the woods into a clearing, a corpse is seen being carried off by natives.
  • A man is briefly seen being held on the ground and smacked around by a native.
  • Blood is frequently seen before, during, and after depictions of violence.
  • After the killing of a character the natives cut off his head and are seen holding it up in the air.
  • A soldier is shot in the neck with a dart and sits on the ground in pain, some blood is seen coming out of his neck. Natives approach him and the camera cuts.
  • People are chasing natives through the woods and shoots one in the leg, some blood is seen. This is disturbing as they shot the native so they could go slower, they continue to follow the limping native.
  • We see 2 groups of natives fight eachother with stick like weapons
  • This movie contains scenes of animal cruelty, in the form of murder . If you are at all squeemish about animal violence, don't watch this movie (at least not the standard cut)
  • A man is killed via machete by village people. We see blood.
  • There are extremely graphic rape scenes where women are raped by several men.
  • A woman is raped by being penetrated by a wooden dildo before having her vagina mutilated as a part of a ritualised punishment for cheating on her boyfriend before she is beaten to death (EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING, one of the most brutal moment in the film, possibly the main reason for the X rating).
  • Contains extremely graphic bloody violence. Brutal and explicit scenes of people being beaten to death, shot and executed by a firing squad.
  • A man's penis is cut off (very disturbing).
  • There is extremely graphic blood shown during violence but also after where corpses are shown with their skin cut off and being sliced up (graphically).
  • Graphic gore of corpses are shown (THIS IS EXTREMELY VICIOUS).
  • A dead man has his body split in half and his intestines ripped out, which is extremely graphic, especially when those parts are cooked to be eaten.
  • This has to be the most violent movie of all time, it is insane! If you are unsure, maybe you should watch something else.
  • A group of soldiers shoot natives(no blood in seen)Level of disturbance-(3/10)
  • A man hit by a dart, blood is seen later with a knife cut. LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(6,5/10)
  • -a real animal is stabbed in the neck. LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(9/10)
  • -An adultery ritual happens, we see a native graphically raping a woman with a wooden dildo, then, he takes a rock and and pressures it in her vagina. Finally, she's beaten until death LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(10/10)
  • -two tribes fight each other with darts LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(2/10)
  • -A native woman is raped graphically by another native LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE(9,5/10)
  • -Some characters shoot tribe members again LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(5,5/10)
  • -Dead bodies are seen being cut, gory. LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE- (9/10)
  • -A character eats human meat in a ritualistic scene LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE(7/10)
  • -We see a fake documentary that shows real executions by firing squad and the soundtrack makes the scene even more upsetting. LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE(8/10)
  • -MOST DISTURBING SCENE- A real river turtle had its head and limbs decapitated, its shell is broken graphically with an axe and finally, we see an explicit scene of its organs being removed. LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE(ABERRANT:10/10)
  • -A character's leg is cut with a knife LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-(7/10)
  • A tarantula is killed (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-2/10)
  • -A snake is killed ( LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-3,5/10)
  • -A tribe member is shoot in leg (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-5/10)
  • -A monkey is decapitated(LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-9/10)
  • -A pig is shot(LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-7,5/10)
  • -A village is seen being burned, we can see people screaming in panic (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-8/10)
  • A pregnant woman is beaten until death after a graphic ritualistic abortion.(LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-10/10)
  • -A woman is raped in extremely graphic details by two different men, incredibly disturbing and repulsive. (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-10/10)
  • A naked woman is seen impaled aftermath, extremely realistic (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-9,5/10)
  • A rapist's penis is graphically shown being sliced off (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-9,5/10)
  • -A character is seen being beaten by a tribe until the point his body is cut in half (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-9/10)
  • -A character is raped by natives (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-9,5/10)
  • A native is shot by a gun, no blood is seen(LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-5/10)
  • -A man is captured by natives, blood is seen in his face and the camera cuts (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE-7/10)
  • Seven animals are killed onscreen. They're listed as a monkey having its head cut off, a turtle being decapitated ; a pig being kicked and then shot; and a tarantula spider and a snake being cut in two with a machete. (These scenes are ONLY cut out in the cut version of this movie).
  • A man is killed offscreen. Blood is briefly shown all over his face.
  • A skeleton is found with numerous bugs and worms squirming inside the eye sockets and jaw. These are picked out with a machete.
  • A tribe is herded into a wooden hut which is burned down; many escape but some are inside crying out. This scene is very intense.
  • In some cuts of the film, what is purported to be fake documentary footage of firing squad executions can be seen.

Profanity

  • Some mild language hell, damn, a*s, s**t
  • 7 f*cks and 1 piece of a** (not used too crudely). The middle finger is flipped towards the camera twice.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A couple of men smoke marijuana.
  • At the start, one of the main characters seems 'high' for a short period of time.
  • A man often smokes a tobacco pipe.
  • A soldier is seen drinking beer.
  • A man snorts cocaine off his machete and coerces a captured native to do the same.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A group of people wade across a river, an alligator is seen swimming nearby and it is a bit intense and peril as they move across the river.
  • During most of the violent parts, Riz Ortolani's heartbreaking violin music is heard, making the most disturbing scenes almost unbearable to watch.
  • Extremely disturbing scenes/images of animal slaughter such as a giant turtle having its head cut off, limbs cut off and organs pulled out and a monkey's head being sliced off (these are the most graphic instances of animal violence).
  • There is a frightening and disturbing moment where the body of a newborn baby is submerged in mud.
  • Disturbing scenes of cannibalism.
  • This is widely known as one of the most disturbing films ever made.
  • This film has an official MPAA rating of X and would likely be updated as NC-17. It would be very hard for this film to get an R rating, too many cuts would be required,
  • The 2014 Blu-ray release features both the original theatrical cut (96 minutes) and an edited version (90 minutes). The theatrical version features all scenes involving animal cruelty.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • 3 men are seen taking turns beating up a tribe member while another character is yelling and worried about something else instead of someone getting killed. The tribe member is then shown to be impaled on a large wooden stake.
  • We learn the documentary crew is commiting acts of violence and disturbing things to later make their doccumentary more intense. Some of these include betraying people by killing them, and being violent and cruel towards the natives, as well as killing a turtle and killing a couple other animals.
  • The final minutes of the movie documentary are shocking and depict the murders of the four cameramen and lasts about a total of six minutes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • We discover that the missing film crew is dead when a character discovers a throne made out of what is implied to be their bones remains and their camera.
  • The film's violence was so extreme that the director was charged with murder and obscenity (due to the fact that audiences thought everything on-camera was real; the concept of found footage films wasn't a thing before this movie came out), the sexual content mostly consists of brutal and graphic rape scenes. If rated NC-17 it would most likely be the most sexually and graphically violent rated film ever in the history of cinema. Not a film for anyone under 17, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

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