Cannibal Holocaust: And The Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato Hardcover – February 15, 2022 by Harvey Fenton

Description

Author: Fenton Harvey

Edition: 2

Package Dimensions: 21x301x1082

Number Of Pages: 144

Release Date: 15-02-2022

Details: Product Description
REVISED, UPDATED AND EXPANDED SPECIAL EDITION

Cannibal Holocaust is the seminal ‘found footage’ film, acclaimed as being one of the truly great horror movies; indeed this hugely influential film is so devastatingly effective that it has often wrongly been accused of being a ‘snuff movie’.

This book is the fully authorised guide to the amazing films of Ruggero Deodato, whose notorious masterpiece CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST is analysed in depth along with all his other movies, which include HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK, WAVES OF LUST, CUT AND RUN, LAST CANNIBAL WORLD, BODYCOUNT, PHANTOM OF DEATH, THE BARBARIANS, DIAL: HELP, THE ATLANTIS INTERCEPTORS and LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN.

With two career-spanning interviews, a detailed filmography, reviews of every Ruggero Deodato movie and a stunning selection of posters, film stills and rare behind the scenes photos selected from the director’s personal collection, this book is the definitive reference work on one of Italy’s most accomplished horror film directors.

Fully revised and updated, with a further 16 pages of new text and illustrations added to the previous re-issue from 2011, and bound as a luxury hardcover.
Review
“… thorough and lavish …” —
Fangoria magazine

“… insightful and enjoyably lurid …” —
Shock Cinema magazine

“A sharply written, heavily anecdotal work… an excellent treatment of an auteur on the bloodiest periphery of film-making.” —
Total Film magazine
About the Author
Harvey Fenton is Managing Director of FAB Press. The company was established in 1993 with the publication of the first issue of
Flesh & Blood magazine, which was issued for five years, after which FAB Press concentrated on producing books for cult connoisseurs. In addition to this volume, he has co-authored and edited the following FAB Press books:
Flesh & Blood Book One, Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the Seventies, Flesh & Blood Compendium and
Shock! Horror! Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Ruggero Deodato has the dubious honour of being the man who created one of the most infamous horror movies ever made. Cannibal Holocaust is Deodato’s most celebrated movie, and he is fully aware of this fact; during the course of the interview featured in this book, he says, “The best one for me is Cannibal Holocaust. It is impossible to equal that film…” Deodato will never live down the legacy of this stunning film, and one gets the impression that he is content with this state of affairs, hence this book rightfully devotes a large proportion of its pages to documenting every aspect of Deodato’s brutal, distressing
masterpiece. However we are also here to thoroughly document the entire career of one of the busiest men in the film-making industry. He has survived in this most turbulent of environments for over forty years by being ever-adaptable, willing to try his hand at any genre: along with two further jungle-adventures ― Last Cannibal World and Cut and Run ― his filmography includes cop thriller Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, claustrophobic slasher House on the Edge of the Park, apocalyptic adventure movie The Atlantis Interceptors, costume fantasy film The Barbarians, plus an impressive array of comedies, erotic thrillers and prime-time Italian TV serials.
This book is the most comprehensive analysis of Deodato’s work ever published.
It is our intention that the career-spanning interview and detailed filmography printed in these pages will serve as a valuable, lasting source of reference for everyone who takes an interest in this increasingly important figure in the world of cinema.
Ruggero Deodato was born on 7 May 1939 in Potenza, Italy. He grew up in the Parioli region of Rome, which happened to be home to many of the prime movers in the vibrant 1950’s Italian movie industry. Due to this cultural background, Deodato was naturally drawn t