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The most notorious found-footage film ever made is about to look more gruesomely real than ever. Grindhouse Releasing will unleash its six-disc Cannibal Holocaust Ultimate Edition on 4K UHD on November 24, giving Ruggero Deodato’s blood-soaked 1980 shocker the deluxe treatment its fans have long craved – and its detractors have long dreaded.
For the uninitiated, Cannibal Holocaust presents the “found footage” of four documentary filmmakers who meet a brutal end at the hands of a South American tribe of flesh-eaters. Its unflinching realism was so convincing that Deodato and his filmmakers were arrested upon the film’s original release and the movie was seized – a reputation that has dogged it for more than four decades, and one that paved the way for The Blair Witch Project and the entire found-footage boom that followed.
The centerpiece of the set is a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm and 16mm camera negatives, presented in Dolby Vision, across three different cuts: the original uncensored theatrical version; a new Special Edition that presents the film-within-a-film The Green Inferno documentary footage from the original 16mm negative in its native 1.37:1 aspect ratio for the first time; and a never-before-released “unseen” version. Crucially for many viewers, the set also includes an animal cruelty-free viewing option, along with an archival stereo DTS-HD Master Audio remix and the original mono mix.
The six discs – one UHD, four Blu-rays and a soundtrack CD – are packed with extras, including:
The disc was produced by Grindhouse Releasing owner Bob Murawski, the Oscar-winning editor of The Hurt Locker, whose label has previously given lavish home-video resurrections to The Beyond, Pieces and Hollywood 90028. The new restoration has already made the rounds theatrically, premiering at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles before a run of select theatrical engagements across North America.
The Cannibal Holocaust Ultimate Edition is available for preorder now from Grindhouse Releasing, which notes the slipcover edition is limited.
For the uninitiated, Cannibal Holocaust presents the “found footage” of four documentary filmmakers who meet a brutal end at the hands of a South American tribe of flesh-eaters. Its unflinching realism was so convincing that Deodato and his filmmakers were arrested upon the film’s original release and the movie was seized – a reputation that has dogged it for more than four decades, and one that paved the way for The Blair Witch Project and the entire found-footage boom that followed.
The centerpiece of the set is a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm and 16mm camera negatives, presented in Dolby Vision, across three different cuts: the original uncensored theatrical version; a new Special Edition that presents the film-within-a-film The Green Inferno documentary footage from the original 16mm negative in its native 1.37:1 aspect ratio for the first time; and a never-before-released “unseen” version. Crucially for many viewers, the set also includes an animal cruelty-free viewing option, along with an archival stereo DTS-HD Master Audio remix and the original mono mix.
The six discs – one UHD, four Blu-rays and a soundtrack CD – are packed with extras, including:
- Two feature-length commentaries: one with Deodato and star Robert Kerman, the other with stars Carl Yorke and Francesca Ciardi
- Searching for Cannibal Holocaust, a new feature-length documentary by Calum Waddell
- In the Jungle – The Making of Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Michele De Angelis
- Interviews with Deodato, cinematographer Sergio D’Offizi, production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng, camera operator Roberto Forges Davanzati, composer Riz Ortolani, assistant director/co-star Salvatore Basile, and stars Kerman, Yorke, Ciardi and Luca Barbareschi
- A 100-page book by Euro-horror expert Martin Beine
- Ortolani’s remastered and expanded soundtrack on CD, with ten additional tracks, including three never-before-released cues
- A rigid slipcover featuring the banned artwork from the original 42nd Street release by Marcus Boas, plus an inner cover with a newly commissioned painting by NYC underground artist Winter Anders Fiddes printed on Japanese art paper
- Still galleries, theatrical trailers and more than two and a half hours of hidden Easter eggs
The disc was produced by Grindhouse Releasing owner Bob Murawski, the Oscar-winning editor of The Hurt Locker, whose label has previously given lavish home-video resurrections to The Beyond, Pieces and Hollywood 90028. The new restoration has already made the rounds theatrically, premiering at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles before a run of select theatrical engagements across North America.
The Cannibal Holocaust Ultimate Edition is available for preorder now from Grindhouse Releasing, which notes the slipcover edition is limited.