Ruggero Deodato, the Italian director behind the grotesque and controversial 1980 movie Cannibal Holocaust, died Thursday in Rome, the Il Messaggero newspaper reported. He was 83.
Made within the type of a documentary and shot in Colombia, Cannibal Holocaust starred Robert Kerman and employed purported “discovered footage” taken by a sadistic American movie crew throughout an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find indigenous tribes.
It depicted homicide, mutilation, torture, gang rape and animal slaughter and was banned in a number of nations together with Deodato’s personal, with Italian authorities seizing his movie and destroying prints shortly after it hit theaters.
