15 Movies Like Cannibal Holocaust

Loved Cannibal Holocaust? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

The Holy Boy
#1

The Holy Boy

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Lola's Secret
#2

Lola's Secret

Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
#3

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cannibal Holocaust.

Stage Fright
#4

Stage Fright

While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

White Cannibal Queen
#5

White Cannibal Queen

A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

The Hills Have Eyes
#6

The Hills Have Eyes

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cannibal Holocaust.

Black Velvet
#7

Black Velvet

Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who surrounds himself with singing children.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Africa Blood and Guts
#8

Africa Blood and Guts

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Play Motel
#9

Play Motel

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
#10

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Convent of Sinners
#11

Convent of Sinners

Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Play Dead
#12

Play Dead

A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cannibal Holocaust.

Suspiria
#13

Suspiria

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

What the Peeper Saw
#14

What the Peeper Saw

A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.

Cannibal Ferox
#15

Cannibal Ferox

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cannibal Holocaust.