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FMTV Movie Myths – Is Cannibal Holocaust a snuff film?!

September 12, 2014 by Gary Collinson

It’s one of the most graphic and depraved films in all of cinema history, but was Italian filmmaker Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 video nasty Cannibal Holocaust actually a snuff film? In this week’s episode of FMTV’s Movie Myths, Oliver Davis takes a trip deep into the heart of the Amazon (okay, not really) to unearth the truth behind the making of the the grisly cult classic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079RKD7xDhs

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Originally published September 12, 2014. Updated July 13, 2019.

Filed Under: Flickering Myth TV Tagged With: Cannibal Holocaust

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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