Cannibal Holocaust (1980) poster
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Cannibal Holocaust

Horror

Directed by Ruggero Deodato

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes. From TMDB

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Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 horror film, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi and Perry Pirkanen.

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    #nowwatching Oh we may stir some trouble up today. Today's movie is Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Often mentioned, rarely seen due to it not really getting distribution. Holy f🔪k, like every content warning ever. Made to be shocking, it still works today. Anyone else see this one? Love it, or hate it?

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  • Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2024

    Cannibal Holocaust was found footage but who tf knew about that movie besides hardcore horror people. Blair Witch went MAINSTREAM so your regular viewing audience did not have a backlog knowledge of found footage at that point. Anyway, here's your horror nerdery courtesy of Goth Aunty today.

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  • tamm - NEW COMIC ON ITCH RIGHT NOW @tammdraws.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    Cannibal Holocaust, a movie that has been banned in numerous parts of the world because the crew killed multiple animals and abused its actors during filming is on fucking AppleTV!!!!!!!

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  • Shrinkage Violet @shrinkageviolet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    God it really is so fucking funny to make Cannibal Holocaust unironically. What a dogshit movie.

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  • klu9 @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 8, 2025

    The Gory Glory Days of Hong Kong Category III Cinema. [Apologies / let me know if this is off-topic for B Movie Bonanza] Two-part article from [Eastern Kicks](https://www.easternkicks.com/) - [The Gory Glory Days of Hong Kong Category III Cinema – part 1](https://www.easternkicks.com/features/the-gory-glory-days-of-hong-kong-category-iii-cinema-part-1/) (some gory images) - [The Gory Glory Days of Hong Kong Category III Cinema – part…

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Featuring an original story by Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato, the video game GREEN INFERNO is coming soon. The game follows a group searching for a film reel on a tropical island, with its footage containing disturbing material tied to real cases of cannibalism.

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  • more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    it's definitely not the first (Cannibal Holocaust springs to mind) but it was maybe the first Respectable film to do it. anyway love this anecdote lol:

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  • Fright Club @frightya.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Please join #FrightClub, or save yourself, as we get bloody and disgusting with Friday's double feature. We begin at 10 PM ET with A Serbian Film (2010) on Fandango, free w/ads. Then we continue at 12:00 AM ET with Cannibal Holocaust (1980), on Shudder. See you at the 'sploitation station.

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  • rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.restBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    movie theater down the block marquee currently has THE THREE STOOGES CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

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  • Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.ukBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    - scored the winning goal in the 1973 Fairs Cup final - had a brief fling with John Holmes - favourite film is Cannibal Holocaust - says "pacific" instead of "specific" - founding member of Throbbing Gristle

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  • SKU!L @skullpioneer.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    Seros and Faora watched the 1980's film "Cannibal Holocaust" last night They started working on a song that samples the theme.. At least Seros is trying to but Faora won't stop talking about the movie..

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  • Black Dog @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 26, 2024

    The 20 most traumatizing horror movies. >Horror is the movie genre most positioned to take advantage of the fears and desires in the deepest parts of the human psyche. It’s also the genre that has pushed the boundaries of what can and should be seen on the screen, particularly in recent years. Horror films, particularly those released in the 1980s and afterward, have worked very hard to plumb the hearts and minds of viewers, bringing out those things that many people are afraid to face in their…

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2025

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #187 "Bone Tomahawk" (S. Craig Zahler/2015) Zahler's awesome horror/western that asks what if Cannibal Holocaust ran headlong into The Searchers. Great film for fans of both westerns and horror. Check it out!

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Hot take from recent film rewatches: I found repellant CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST more thought-provoking than revered TREE OF LIFE! Genuinely. I'll stew on it before writing my CH review, but brace yourselves. #filmsky 📽

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  • 🎃🔪 Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma 🔪🎃 @nintendopro03.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    A Serbian Film, Salò, and Cannibal Holocaust.

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  • Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2024

    Just seen someone in the wild say "Old films aren't that disturbing, modern films can push it more than they did" and the film they were talking about is Cannibal Holocaust.

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  • Rose 👠 @erotikill.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Rite of passage. I'm finally watching the OG Faces of Death. My older brother made it seem like the most grusome film. My mother forbade it. When I read what it actually was, I had already seen Cannibal Holocaust and too many films involving necrophilia (please don't ask). The magic was gone.

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  • Daniel O'Connell @docholiday316.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    Another great video from Ant dissecting The Green Inferno, a film from notorious hack and megadouche Eli Roth. It says something that his film manages to be more regressive and racist in its depiction of the cannibals than the film he’s paying tribute to (Cannibal Holocaust).

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  • Kevin NOT Kev! Veteran. LGBTQ+ . #Rejoin @polbikers.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    Utterly fabulous review!! #Melania "It is the most depressing experience I have ever had in the cinema. I've seen A Serbian Film, I've seen Cannibal Holocaust and I have never felt this depressed in my life in the cinema. I thought it was absolutely repugnant." youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE

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  • Karl Webster @karlwebster.comBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    "...the most depressing experience I have ever had in the cinema ... I've seen A Serbian Film, I've seen Cannibal Holocaust ... I have never felt this depressed in my life in the cinema. I thought it was absolutely repugnant." – Mark Kermode on Melania www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyU...

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2025

    TRIVIA: ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ was the second highest-grossing film in Japan in 1983 behind ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’. (IMDB) 🖤

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2024

    What are four films you don't just dislike, you despise? 🎥 #Filmsky While there are other films I avidly dislike, these are the Four Horsemen of my Terrible Movie Apocalypse. I'd rather watch Cannibal Holocaust 100 times in a row than view any of these accursed things again.

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  • Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Share Your Favorite... Vampire Movie: Nosferatu (1922) Zombie Movie: Dawn of the Dead Haunting Movie: The Innocents Creature Feature: Alien Found Footage: Cannibal Holocaust Slasher: Psycho Cosmic Horror: The Thing Psychological Horror: Get Out Horror Comedy: What We Do In The Shadows

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  • Vault of Horrors @vaultofhorrors.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Cannibal Holocaust (1980) is one of the most brutal horror films ever made. This brutal Italian shocker pushed the boundaries of cinematic ethics, censorship, and audience manipulation so far that it triggered criminal investigations and real-world legal trials upon its release. #folkhorror #horror

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  • Garabatoz @garabatoz.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    Cannibal Holocaust (1980), I'm sure I was too young to watch this movie when I watched it. Anyway, this is the last week of Movie posters/covers.

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  • The Finnvisible Man™ @feeblecretin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life? Carl Gabriel Yorke as Alan Yates in Cannibal Holocaust, smiling at the sight of an impaled woman before being reminded that he's on camera. For such a shocking film, this subtle little thing is the scariest scene.

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  • ♡ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝♡ @xxpearlxx.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    #NowWatching The Washing machine (1993) Dir. Ruggero Deodato also directed a little film called Cannibal Holocaust 🖤 I'm keeping my expectations low but my guy Ruggero loves nudity and shock value 😅

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  • New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    The most controversial movie ever made screens in 35mm! Ruggero Deodato's CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) plays TONIGHT, Saturday August 8th, at midnight! Tickets: buff.ly/chMsVkj

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  • Mike Bracken @horrorgeek.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2026

    Cannibal Holocaust isn't a movie you watch. It's a movie you endure. It was banned. Seized. Taken to court. And it's still one of the most disturbing films ever made. Learn all the gory details in my book, Sick Flicks: Volume 1! amzn.to/4bk4mff

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  • Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    Just to add the audacity, the movie takes its title from the in-universe film of Cannibal Holocaust, which was all about how western cultures are actually more savage than the indigenous people we look down upon and seek to exploit...

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  • Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    There are things about the film that simply cannot be fixed in an edit. (See: Jackson’s baffling decision to make the islanders into Cannibal Holocaust monsters, making the film even more racist than the original.) But every time I watch it, I am filled with the urge to tinker

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  • Maddie @artyphex.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Cannibal Holocaust is one of the few horror movies I will never watch. It is not horror. It is an animal snuff film and documentation of real abuse. Even if it has a larger fictitious plot it doesn’t excuse it from the REAL atrocities the director was committing

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  • 🔞Sasha the Sparkling Homunculus [45/500]🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @attackonsasha.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Any “controversial” film like Cannibal Holocaust or A Serbian Film for sure That’s a HUGE red flag

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    #nowwatching Dr. Butcher, MD (1980) aka Zombie Holocaust Oof. I knew by the H-word we were in for a bad time. What starts as an interesting premisw becomes a bogged down cannibal exploitation film. A horrible rip off of Cannibal Holocaust. Machete's down. Anyone else see this train wreck?

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  • Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.comBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    What is your discomfort movie? A movie you saw one time and said okay, never again? Last House on the Left I Spit on your Grave Cannibal Holocaust Faces of Death All films I will never watch again.

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  • GEN AXE (aka SilverFuzz) @genaxe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    #Horror365Challenge #NowWatching Cannibal Holocaust (1979) The controversial found footage film directed by Ruggero Deodato. @alexvorkov.bsky.social @sauzapaul.bsky.social @birtyditch44.bsky.social @cursedcassette.bsky.social @danielhood4.bsky.social

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  • Em, Rat Queen 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @ratqueenem.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Randomly remembering that in my film history class back in college we watched Salo, Cannibal Holocaust and Deepthroat in the same semester and that shit was wild lmao.

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  • Grindhouse Releasing @grindhousefilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    “You cannot show this movie without people getting crazy on your ass" - Joe Bob Briggs See CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST uncut and uncensored, now showing in select theaters and coming soon to 4K UHD Blu-ray in the Ultimate Edition! shop.GrindhouseReleasing.com

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  • Michelle, a good witch @hiyinx.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Cannibal Holocaust is a Christmas movie

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  • Zoë Rose Smith / Zobo @zobowithashotgun.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    Woke up this morning with a real need to watch Cannibal Holocaust or Nekromantik cos I need a comfort movie. Also keep forgetting I need to get a 🐢 tattoo soon 😂

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  • Daniel O'Connell @docholiday316.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Basically, Deodato forced two actors to film a sex scene against their will, so it’s technically rape since no consent was involved. Cannibal Holocaust is a deeply immoral film on several levels, and it’s the one Italian genre film I refuse to watch.

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  • Grindhouse Releasing @grindhousefilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    At last! The most controversial film ever made arrives in the ultimate edition. Ruggero Deodato's CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST: UHD Ultimate Edition is coming soon. Pre-orders begin Tuesday, August 18, at 12:00 PM EST at shop.GrindhouseReleasing.com

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  • jaykeeley @doomedparade.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    Men Behind the Sun. 1988… and I thought Cannibal Holocaust was gruesome — this is on another level altogether — of note, the film is based on Unit 731 in NE China, a real Japanese death camp running the most heinous human experiments on Chinese and Russian civilians during WW2. #filmsky #horror

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  • jookey spooky @jakeybakey.gayBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    Gays be like "it's my comfort movie" and it's Cannibal Holocaust

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  • Kelly’s Taboo Terrors @tabooterrors.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    Tonight's the night, Morgue Rats! Meet me in the Taboo Terrors Cinema Discord channel at 1145pm EST for a pre movie chat and set up. Then, at MIDNIGHT, the shocks begin with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980)! discord.gg/9PjBPc3P See you there?! 💀🥩🍖 #Extremesky #horrorsky #filmsky

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  • PINNLAND EMPIRE @pinnlandempire.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    “I was 24 years old when I made my first film, PUSHER, and for it I stole everything I could, both visually and technically, from this film [BATTLE OF ALGIERS] and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST” - Nicolas Winding Refn, @criterion.bsky.social Battle Of Algiers/Pusher 1/2 #sidebyside

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  • New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    The most controversial movie ever made screens in 35mm! Ruggero Deodato's CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) plays next Saturday, August 8th, at midnight! Tickets: buff.ly/chMsVkj

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  • Rebus @blinkpen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Learning to never watch Cannibal Holocaust from a web page I found looking for Milo & Otis facts (the page was ultimately about movies where animal suffering and death onscreen was Real, that animal is Dead, for the Movie, bc this is before/why that No Animals Were Harmed disclaimer existed)

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  • Kane @demikane.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2026

    My favorite review I ever made for Letterboxd was for Cannibal Holocaust as I felt like I was firing off.

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  • village604 @[email protected]Lemmy · May 1, 2026

    I've never been so disturbed by a movie that I couldn't continue watching it. Even Cannibal Holocaust, a movie so realistic that the actors had to show up in court to prove it wasn't a snuff film.

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    "I've seen A Serbian Film and Cannibal Holocaust and I have never been more depressed in the theater."

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    Today's Film Article: Cannibal Holocaust may have been Deodato's crowning nasty - although there was another which pushed the boundaries of decency & sexual transgression. www.cine-excess.co.uk/house-cleani...

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  • Amanda @scoop-adw.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again. Cannibal Holocaust

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  • WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    I can't bring myself to watch Wake in Fright because the kangaroos hunt was real kangaroos being killed. Same with Cannibal Holocaust because of the turtle scene. I have a hard enough time with fake animal deaths in movie. So no thanks. #FrightClub

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    I reckon it's: Salo Cannibal Holocaust Pink Flamingos Thundercrack! The Pope knows film art when he sees it! 😆

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  • Grindhouse Releasing @grindhousefilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    Grindhouse Releasing's 4K Special Edition of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST will have its world premiere October 5 at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles. Tickets on sale now! beyondfest.com/film/canniba...

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  • Sheena @horrorfilms1313.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    #OTD in 2007, Hostel: Part II was released in theaters. Ruggero Deodato, the director of the controversial 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust, has a brief cameo as a cannibal in the film. #HorrorFamily #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #Horror #HorrorMovies

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  • Lee from the Internet @theinternetslee.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    Now watching Phantom of Death (1987) aka Off Balance. A movie about a mad pianist from the director of Cannibal Holocaust, starring Michael York, Edwige Fenech, and Donald Pleasence? There’s never been a movie more tailor made for my pleasure 📽️ #filmsky #horrorsky

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  • Fear, Yer Pal, Yer Satan, Yer Sun @fiervind.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2024

    You: Please act normal; you need these people to like you. Me: Ok! People: hi. Me: While some people think that The Blair Witch Project is the first found footage horror film, the truth is that it's actually Cannibal Holocaust. It also was so violent the director went on trial for murder.

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  • 🎃🔪 Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma 🔪🎃 @nintendopro03.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Most of these replies are completely misunderstanding the question. 😭 The only three movies that fit the prompt are A Serbian Film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and Cannibal Holocaust. Oh, and Brooke Shields’s movies when she was a child.

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