‘Cannibal Holocaust’ Gets Restored: The Original ‘Video Nasty Returns to the Big Screen… and It’s Still Hard to Stomach

Cannibal Holocaust is coming to theaters nationwide this weekend from Grindhouse Releasing in a newly restored special edition prepared especially for the big screen, Dread Central learned via press release.

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Originally released in 1980, Ruggero Deodato’s controversial horror classic remains one of the most infamous and influential films in the genre. Grindhouse premiered the new version of Cannibal Holocaust at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles and is now booking exclusive theatrical dates in advance of the eagerly awaited 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release.

Cannibal Holocaust presents the “found footage” of four young documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. That footage will now be shown for the first time fully uncensored and restored in its native 16mm aspect ratio, as audiences have never seen it before.

“It’s a whole new and perhaps even more powerful experience watching the movie this way, with the alternating aspect ratios,” said Grindhouse Releasing owner Bob Murawski, an Academy Award-winning film editor (The Hurt Locker, Send Help). “This is essentially the same way we constructed Orson Welles’ long-unfinished masterpiece The Other Side of the Wind.”

A precursor to The Blair Witch Project and a key inspiration for Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno, Cannibal Holocaust is one of the most highly anticipated 4K releases of the year.