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Ruggero Deodato, director of the notorious and iconic Cannibal Holocaust along with a plethora of other genre movies, has passed away at the age of 83. The news that he had died on Thursday was reported by Italian media outlet Leggo. A dynamic and inventive director, the found footage style of Cannibal Holocaust and the bleak yet gripping drama of …

SYNOPSIS: While on holidays in Romania with his girlfriend Livia, Alexandre is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital where he has to undergo a blood transfusion. On his return home he seems to suffer from a strange disease, convinced that contaminated blood runs through his veins. After all isn’t Romania the land of legendary bloodsuckers? Livia …

SYNOPSIS: Time to party hardy. Hardly! It’s more like time to bail when two psychotics gate-crash a perfectly delightful get-together and turn it into a gore-fest with a huge body count. Directed by Ruggero Deodato, House on the Edge of the Park makes no pretense — it’s an exploitation flick complete with ritualistic torture. REVIEW: Written by: Gianfranco Clerici and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: From the makers of “FantastiCozzi”, a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato. REVIEW: Ruggero Deodato directed Cannibal Holocaust, an Italian film released in 1980 that has caused a lot of debate over the years, mostly due to its realism – many thought it was real, and that the actors …

‘Video Nasty‘ was a term coined in Britain around 1982 which applied to certain films distributed on video cassette that were criticised by the media and various religious organisations for their violent content. While cinema violence had been regulated by the British Board of Film Censorship for many years, the lack of regulations for video sales (combined with the claim …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two twin barbarians seek revenge from the warlord who massacred their tribe and captured them when they were small children. REVIEW: In Barbarians we have another film starring Peter and David Paul, the bodybuilding identical twins that were making movies for a brief period of time before fading into obscurity. In this particular flick, the duo …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The cast and crew of a horror film encounter the vengeful spirit of a cursed demon. REVIEW: As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the big news coming out of Unearthed Films is the return of the exorcism film with the upcoming release of American Guinea Pig: Song of Solomon. As if to whet our appetites …

SYNOPSIS An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home. REVIEW: You already know Cannibal Holocaust, director Ruggero Deodato’s most (in)famous film to date, but did you know that he actually had a “cannibal trilogy,” Cannibal Holocaust (1980) being …

Unearthed Films is proud to present Lex Ortega’s ATROZ! Presented by Ruggero Deodato, master of the cannibal genre with Cannibal Holocaust. Directed by Lex Ortega, “Barbaros Mexico and sound designer for Frankensteins Army” succeeds in making the most intense gore film in the history of Mexican Cinema! “Atroz/Atrocious is a film that portrays the story of two serial killers. After …

SYNOPSIS: The spirits of deceased phone operators that worked at a dating hotline haunt a woman and kill those around her. REVIEW: Dial Help is a weird little movie and I’m not entirely sure how I felt about it. On one hand I thought that it had a pretty original premise but at the same time it was just a …

SYNOPSIS: A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec’s missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

SYNOPSIS: Your typical gang of 80’s stereotypes (unwisely) decide to camp at an old campsite in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately for them a curse has been placed on the land and as a result a shaman (who isn’t quite human) roams the woods, violently killing anyone who happens to cross his path. Soon the campers are brutally killed off …

SYNOPSIS: Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici’s girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can’t be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: Censored in several countries for its gratuitous violence, this controversial faux documentary from director Ruggero Deodato presents footage from a team of New York University filmmakers mysteriously lost in the Amazon jungle. The film, allegedly recovered by Professor Harold Moore, reveals the deplorable treatment of a tribe of suspected South American cannibals and, ultimately, the fate …

Italian director Ruggero Deodato who is known best for his gore filled films is back at it again.  He is working on getting the cast in place for Cannibal Holocaust II and has tapped horror veteran David Hess as his leading man.  It’s been three decades since these two worked together on The House on the Edge of the Park …