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Ruggero Deodato, the Italian filmmaker whose hyper-realistic found-footage horror pic Cannibal Holocaust got him arrested and was banned in more than 50 countries, died today, Italian media reported. He was 83. No details of his death were given.
Deodato wrote and/or directed dozens of films and TV shows spanning myriad genres during a 60-year career, but none was more notorious, controversial or scrutinized than 1980’s Cannibal Holocaust. The film’s intense and authentic-looking gore led many to believe that local actors actually were murdered on screen. The film was seized by Italian authorities, who later arrested Deodato and put him on trial for murder and animal cruelty.
The murder charges were dropped after the supposedly deceased — and ingested — actors turned up in court, but he was convicted of animal cruelty. That verdict later was overturned.
Cannibal Holocaust was a pioneer of the found footage and mockumentary genres. Its plot can be summed up in the intro to its trailer: “In 1979, four documentary filmmakers disappeared in the jungles of South America while shooting a film about cannibalism. Six months later, their footage was found.” The discovery was made by a New York University professor who was on a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest.
The footage contained scenes of intense violence including horrific torture. The home video of Cannibal Holocaust effective was banned in the UK in 1984 but reissued 17 years later with some scenes cut. A 2011 video release restored all but 15 seconds, which depicted an animal’s brutal killing.
Born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Deodato was a childhood friend of Robert Rossellini’s son and began serving as an AD on the famed Italian filmmaker’s movies in the late
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