

To set the stage, allow me to quote in full the text placed at the beginning of the film on the 2005 Region 1 DVD released by Grindhouse Releasing: It seemed that if I was ever going to watch this film - something which I had long ago promised myself that I would never do - this was the right time.

Almost certainly the most widely-banned film in history, and notorious even among those who could not otherwise name a single Italian horror film, it's a movie that is considered even by most of its ardent defenders as something to be endured rather than enjoyed or respected in any degree. When I hit upon the idea of a Video Nasties retrospective, I had little in the way of a planned schedule, but one thing was always clear, from the first instant: it had to end with Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust.
