Cannibal Holocaust

The last panel I attended at the Chicago Weekend of Horrors this year was The Masters of Italian Horror. This presentation featured host Paolo Zelati interviewing three true horror legends; Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), Lamberto Bava (Demons) and FX master/director Sergio Stivaletti (Waxmask, Cemetary Man/Dellamorte Dellamorte).
In conversation with me Deodato stressed what a good time he was having,
“When I looked into coming to the conventions I kept hearing from everyone, “Fangoria, Fangoria, Fangoria!” I’ve only been doing this since last year and it has been thrilling. Fangoria is the most professional of the organizations I’ve been working with.”
And for Bava it was like a homecoming, and a breath of fresh air all at once
“Fangoria was one of the first magazines that ever interviewed me all those years ago. I love these conventions because they put you right at ground zero with the

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It's only fitting that with all our Italian Invasion coverage this last week that the next episode of America's Bad Kids is actually about an "Italian Bad Kid". Some consider him the baddest of all! We're proud to share with you America's Bad Kids Episode 7: Italian Bad Kid Ruggero Deodato!
Introduction: Meet the most notorious Italian Director and first Italian bad Kid Ruggero Deodato. John Torrani sits down with this pioneering and controversial film maker to find out his feeling on killing animals, cannibalism and reality Television.
Ruggero Deodato is best known for the most controversial film ever made, Cannibal Holocaust. After production wrapped he was arrested because the film is so graphic and violent that the Italian authorities actually believed the events filmed to have been real.
Be sure to check out this installment of Americas Bad Kids for a rare chance to see Italian Bad Kid Ruggero Deodato

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Welcome to the tenth installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom, our new column where we'll be catching up with some of our favorite bands and giving them a place to talk horror. Since this is Fangoria, we're gonna pick these musician's brains to find out what scares them.
For number ten, we caught up Stephan Gebedi (guitars) and Ed Warby (drums) from Hail of Bullets, European purveyors of "Death Metal Supreme" - both huge horror fans with some great taste in genre films, and their love for some Goblin scores.

Ed - I'm a huge horror nut, so here goes...
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper's terrifying original, that is)
Easily the scariest and most intense movie ever made, and it earns this title without shedding more than a few drops of blood. Must've seen it 100 times at least and it still packs a huge sledgehammer blow to the nuts.

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