Italian director Ruggero Deodato, who created the disturbing and divisive 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust, passed away on Thursday in Rome, according to the Il Messaggero daily. He was 83.
Deodato made a variety of different contributions, including directing the cult classics The Barbarians (1987), House on the Edge of the Park (1987), and the giallo movies Body Count (1986) and Phantom of Death (1987). (1980). He directed a recent episode of Deathcember (2019).
He worked in a variety of genres throughout his career, including drama, comedy, peplum, poliziottesco, and science fiction. However, he is perhaps best known for helming gruesome and realistically violent horror movies. His most famous film, Cannibal Holocaust, is regarded as one of the most contentious and brutal in movie history. It was confiscated, heavily censored, or banned in many nations[1] and featured special effects that were so lifelike that Deodato was detained on suspicion of murder. Additionally, discovered footage movies like The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast are said to have been influenced by it. The movie increased Deodato’s notoriety as a “extreme” director and gave him the French moniker “Monsieur Cannibal.”
Parents and Siblings
The names of his parents are not known and he has no known siblings.
Spouse and Children
He had a son with ex-wife, actress Silvia Dionisio.
