Please find below details of a research seminar/screening organized by the Screen Media Research Centre at Brunel University. All welcome.
The Long Road Back From Hell: Reclaiming Cannibal Holocaust
A Documentary Screening and Discussion by Xavier Mendik and Julian Petley
Wednesday 2 November,5pm, LC265 (lecture centre), Brunel University
In 1979, Italian director Ruggero Deodato created Cannibal Holocaust, a film that was to revolutionise and scandalise the nature of realist horror cinema. Deodato’s influential and infamous tale centres on four intrepid documentary filmmakers who go missing in the Amazonian wilderness, leading to fears that they have been butchered by local ‘savages.’ However, when the famous NYU anthropologist Harold Monroe discovers the group’s final filmed diary, a far more shocking tale emerges…
With its complex narrative and innovative use of documentary style techniques, Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust initiated a trend of ‘found footage horror’ that continued through to The Blair Witch Project (1999) and beyond. However, the film’s stylishness was overshadowed by it savage imagery, which lead to the movie being banned and heavily censored in many European countries.
In Britain, the film became the most notorious ‘video nasty’ of the early 1980s, and was only subsequently released in the UK in a heavily censored version. However, in 2011 Julian Petley framed the official BBFC submission of the new HD master of Cannibal Holocaust on behalf of the distributor Shameless Films. This application resulted in a landmark BBFC ruling, which now allows the most complete cut of Cannibal Holocaust to be released across the UK in September 2011.
To tie in with this newly restored, high definition release of the film, Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik will be discussing the long road back from hell for one of cinema’s most contentious titles. The seminar includes a screening of Xavier Mendik’s new documentary ‘The Long Road Back From Hell: Reclaiming Cannibal Holocaust’, which discusses the film’s controversial use of realist techniques, and is included on the new Shameless Films Blu-ray and DVD release of Cannibal Holocaust.
Geoff King
Professor of Film & TV Studies
School of Arts
Brunel University
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