An anthropologist in the Amazon discovers the remains of a missing documentary film crew. Comprising the bulk of Cannibal Holocaust, the footage they shot tells of the hubris and cruelty of the so-called civilized who, lusting for sensation and lacking any respect, invaded the aboriginal virgin landscape, only to be eventually destroyed and devoured by the resident tribal community. Deodato’s scandalous film is as primitive as it is visionary, is simultaneously the denouncement of violent media spectacles and their apotheosis and. It also remains the tough-to-digest “big bang” of found-footage horror film, a genre that would only fully flourish two decades later. (mk)