If you’ve ever wondered what the first found footage movie ever made was like, allow us to enlighten you: there’s a lot of animal cruelty. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is a found footage movie by director Ruggero Deodato that follows an anthropologist as he travels the Amazon rainforest to engage in a rescue mission of an American film crew. However, what he finds - and subsequently brings back - causes him to question everything…

Liz and Cosette explore and discuss the themes of the film, the *ahem* artistic choices made, and the lasting impact this film has had on found footage movies as we know them today. Does this film, for all its shocking content, still have something valuable to bring to the table? Or does the shocking content render it void? That very well may be the question.

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