{"id":448547,"date":"2026-05-27T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:45:11","slug":"cannibal-holocaust-restoration-coming-to-uhd-blu-ray-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448547\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal Holocaust restoration coming to UHD Blu-ray, theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the realm of horror, there\u2019s perhaps only one Video Nasty more notorious than Faces Of Death\u2018s faux snuff: Cannibal Holocaust<\/a>. Italian director Ruggero Deodato\u2019s frequently banned exploitation movie served as the godfather of found-footage horror, following a crew of documentary filmmakers as they immerse themselves with Amazonian cannibals and the violent rituals they perform. Cannibal Holocaust compiles the mockumentary footage into a feast of grim, cruel horror that many people believed to be real. In fact, the humans were fine. It\u2019s the animals that weren\u2019t so lucky. Cannibal Holocaust depicts very real killings of a turtle, a pig, a boa constrictor, and others, and Grindhouse Releasing is finally restoring all that misery 4,000 beautiful Ks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Per Fangoria<\/a>, Grindhouse\u2019s 4K UHD Blu-ray will feature a completely uncensored Cannibal Holocaust restored to its original, and previously unseen 16mm aspect ratio. The restoration, which alternates between aspect ratios, premiered at Beyond Fest last year. Grindhouse owner and Academy Award-winning Bob Murawski called it a \u201cwhole new and perhaps even more powerful experience\u201d and described the restoration process as \u201cessentially the same way we constructed Orson Welles\u2019 long-unfinished masterpiece The Other Side Of The Wind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cannibal Holocaust remains one of the most controversial films ever made. Deodato later regretted the animal killing, saying he was \u201cstupid to introduce animals<\/a>.,\u201d Unfortunately, he didn\u2019t come to that realization before decapitating a second monkey. But censors were just as disturbed by the fake gore. The film was so shocking that Deodato was arrested for obscenity in Italy after the film\u2019s release and later had to prove to the press that the cast was still alive. Nevertheless, the film was still banned in numerous countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cannibal Holocaust is playing in select theaters nationwide starting this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the realm of horror, there\u2019s perhaps only one Video Nasty more notorious than Faces Of Death\u2018s faux…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-448547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}