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To understand the barriers to distribution, one must look at the film's immediate aftermath. Ten days after its premiere in Milan, Italian authorities confiscated the film. The violence was so realistic that magistrates believed Deodato had created an actual snuff film, suspecting he had killed actors on camera to use their corpses in the movie. download cannibal holocaust 1980