Cannibal Holocaust was an early example of the found footage genre, predating The Blair Witch Project significantly. It features an exploitation filmmaker and his crew going into the jungle to investigate an isolated tribe of cannibals. The thing is, the tribe isn't giving them the really shocking footage they want and the documentary is turning out boring. So they start fucking with the tribals to provoke responses, eventually culminating in raping one of the women and killing a couple of them. Finally the tribe has had enough and slaughters the crew, which gets captured on a camera that's left running during the slaughter. This is framed with footage at the beginning and end, supposedly from another film maker who went hunting for the first missing film crew and found the footage.
For all its infamy, Cannibal Holocaust isn't really anymore gruesome or shocking than lots of hard R rated movies made now or in previous decades. What really got to people is that it was presented as real when it was first released. If anything, the film's racial message is pretty woke since it's about the westerners fucking up natives to present them as monsters while being the real monsters themselves, as well as being a sort of meta commentary on exploitation films and the manipulative way they portray their subject matter.
Like most found footage films, the cinematography is pretty shit and the pacing as slow and meandering, but at least it has a somewhat more interesting story.
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