Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Cannibal Holocaust
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1980 · FILM

Cannibal Holocaust

An NYU anthropologist leads a rescue into the Amazon to retrieve missing documentary filmmakers, only to confront savage cannibals and a nightmare of brutal reality that could shatter his career and sanity.

“They eat and they are eaten!”

Directed by
Ruggero Deodato
Written by
Gianfranco Clerici, Giorgio Stegani
Rated
MPA · NC-17
Runtime
95 min
Language
IT
AdventureHorror

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Vincenzo TomassiShot by Sergio D OffiziScored by Riz OrtolaniDesigned by Massimo Antonello Geleng

Box Office

1980 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 20× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.0M

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Nackt und zerfleischtde
  • Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocausten
  • Holocausto caníbales

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).