The Rio Theatre's Friday Late Night Movie series continues on August 30 with one of the aii-time classic grindhouse films ever made, Ruggero Deodato's exploitation staple CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. Since its release in 1980, the film has been both banned and heavily censored throughout the world; decades after its release it continues to be a film that surpasses its reputation and legacy as a shotgun blast to the senses. (In other words... This is not for the faint of heart!)

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST presents the ‘found footage’ of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The footage is so intense so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.

Predating THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in its use of ‘found footage’, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST also served as a key inspiration for Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO.

Be forewarned: This is the one that goes ALL THE WAY! With Robert Kerman, Carl Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Luca Barbereschi, Salvatore Basile, Perry Pirkanen.

"...the film is, to put it bluntly, one of the most intentionally distasteful and violent experiences one could ever watch. It also remains one of the genre’s most enduring, for better and worse, after all these years." (Collider)

"... This is well made, uniquely unpleasant and almost deserving of its huge cult status." (Time Out)

"Whether or not it was his intention, it is also possible to discern a message amid the cruelty: read this as a savage indictment of the power of the media in general, and exploitative documentary filmmaking in particular." (Film 4)

Friday, August 30
Doors 10:30 pm | Movie 11:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Late Night Date Night! Bring a friend, date, or fellow cannibal lover and get two-for-one entry!

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Ruggero Deodato, 1980 / 95 mins / NR) During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.