After its release, the courts swung into action against it. Ten days after its premiere in Milan, Cannibal Holocaust was confiscated by order of local magistrates in Italy, and director Ruggero Deodato was charged with obscenity. Deodato also said in interviews that magistrates had actually suspected him of murder, and that he avoided being charged by asking cast members to appear in court to prove they were in fact still alive, and on the film’s DVD commentary he confirmed he had signed contracts with the film’s stars to stop them appearing in public following its premiere, to add to the snuff film aesthetic.
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