- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Calum Waddell
- Published:
- 2016
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter mentions how Ruggero Deodato's<italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic> was speculated to have inspired the film <italic>The Blair Witch Project</italic> merely on account of its use of found footage. It talks about Eli Roth's <italic>The Green Inferno</italic>, which shares its title with the moniker given to <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic>'s Amazonian locale. It also points out how Roth gleefully condemns what he exploits and how his 'message' could be interpreted as similarly problematic as <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic>. The chapter discusses <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic>'s extreme imagery that initiates an argument about censorship. It analyses the confrontational aspect of <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic> that comes from the audience's own spectatorship.
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- What is "The Lasting Legacy of Cannibal Holocaust" about?
- This chapter mentions how Ruggero Deodato's<italicCannibal Holocaust</italic was speculated to have inspired the film <italicThe Blair Witch Project</italic merely on account of its use of found footage.
- Who wrote "The Lasting Legacy of Cannibal Holocaust"?
- Calum Waddell