Cannibal Holocaust (1980, 65%)
If you think it perplexing that crowds in 1999 could fall for Blair Witch, imagine 1980 when out came Cannibal Holocaust, whose director, Ruggero Deodato, was dragged into Italian court to present the actors from the film, proving they weren’t actually raped, mutilated, and murdered on-camera. The film still has a repulsive effect (and not just because of the late-’70s fashion), due to the fact it shows something no movie could do today: the slaughter of real animals, heightening the murky interplay between fake and actual death.