
Cannibal Holocaust(1980)
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.


“Hunted, raped, and tormented out of her mind...”
The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.

Ursula Buchfellner
Laura Crawford

Al Cliver
Peter Weston

Antonio Mayans
Jack

Antonio de Cabo
Thomas

Bertrand Altmann
The Devil

Gisela Hahn
Jane

Muriel Montossé
Girl on Yacht

Werner Pochath
Chris
Melo Costa
Pablito

Aline Mess
Cannibal Priestess
Devil Hunter is a horror film released in 1980 exploring themes of kidnapping, jungle, torture, model, cannibal, video nasty. Directed by Jesús Franco, it stars Ursula Buchfellner, Al Cliver, Antonio Mayans. The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.
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