The infamous horror film, Cannibal Holocaust, is getting a sequel, but not as a movie, instead, as an interactive game developed by Fantastico Studio and helmed by the original director of the movie, Ruggero Deodato. Cannibal Holocaust was only the middle part of a horror trilogy, but it is the most notorious of the series as a lot of controversy surrounded the film upon release, including allegations that the real actors and crew were murdered on film.
The premise of the film involves a rescue mission to save a group of filmmakers who were attempting to create a documentary about a cannibal tribe in the Amazon rainforest. It was banned in a variety of countries upon its release due to its violent content – many were convinced at the time that it was a snuff film due to its realism.
Cannibal Holocaust perhaps isn’t the most obvious candidate for the video game treatment, however on the 40th anniversary of its release, with the announcement that Deodato will be creating the fourth chapter in his cannibals cycle – which also includes 1977’s Jungle Holocaust and 1985’s Cut and Run – with Fantastico Studio.
Deodato will write and direct the interactive horror graphic adventure, simply titled Cannibal, with players assuming control of numerous characters on a desperate expedition to the jungles of Borneo. According to Fantastico, the game will touch on themes that made the original saga popular, including “natives’ lives, told in its rawness, and cannibalism, powerful metaphors that reveal the most disturbing and deep impulses in our society”.
Cannibal is scheduled to release on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile this November.