Who Is Ruggero Deodato´s Cannibal Holocaust?

In today’s modern era, a lot of people would go on record and say that The Blair Witch Project was the originator of the found footage genre. While Blair Witch was groundbreaking at the time, it did not compare to its graphically grueling predecessor known as Ruggero Deodato's 1980 cult classic, Cannibal Holocaust. As the definitive predecessor, Cannibal Holocaust paved the way for films to be made in found footage fashion and taken seriously, providing multiple influences for filmmakers to recreate throughout time. Cannibal Holocaust is about an anthropologist that leads a rescue team to the South American jungle in search of a missing team of four American filmmakers that were documenting footage of cannibal tribes, only to return with a film that features extreme acts of disturbing, inhumane content. Upon reviewing this found footage as told in the second narrative of the film, the audience shockingly witness the American
Take The Blair Witch Project for example. Throughout the exhibition into the forest, Heather is constantly ridiculed by her two guy friends as the tension increases and in the end, Heather is trying to protect them from not just the unknown, but from themselves. Meanwhile Heather’s guy friends continue to tell her to either to relax, back off, or she is crazy. This influencing trend of characters could be said for Cannibal Holocaust’s cast as Faye Daniels’s character is persistently abused both mentally and physically by her guy friends throughout the documentary. On top of that, Faye’s voice is basically ignored in favor of her team’s cruel intentions, but continues to stick with them until her very death because she still cared about their