Ruggero Deodato, the director of «Cannibal Holocaust» has died: he was 83 years old – Corriere.it

died in Rome at the age of 83 Roger Deodatus, one of the most important and controversial directors of the golden age of Italian genre cinema. The news was given on Facebook by Sergio Martino, another protagonist of that unforgettable season. After the beginnings like assistant director alongside Roberto Rossellinithe Lucan filmmaker, born in Potenza on May 7, 1939, worked with leading exponents of the Italian B-Movie — including Sergio Corbucci and Antonio Margheriti — before making his debut behind the camera in 1964, still alongside Margheriti, with the peplum Ursus il terrore dei Kirghisi.

In the early 70s Deodato worked mainly for the TV commercials, in the meantime experimenting with the erotic thriller (Wave of pleasure, 1975) and with the poliziottesco (Men are born policemen die, 1976). The notoriety came with the cannibal trilogy composed by Last Cannibal World (1977), Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Hell Live (1985), films characterized by theextreme violence graphics and greeted by heated controversy for the scenes of non-simulated killing of animals.

Cannibal Holocaust, shot with a skill uncommon among craftsmen of genre cinema, soon earned the reputation of damn movie. The story of Professor Monroe, who travels to Brazil in search of four mysteriously disappeared reporters, considered the first found footage in the history of horror. A film that cost the director four months in prison with the conditional. Di Deodato also remembers the direction of The boys of the wallcult TV series of the nineties.