backfire ur sorta right m8 cannibal holocaust is the best but not the first
holocaust was 1980 but deodato also made cannibal in 1977 so that was really the first,lenzi freely admitted he tried to out cannibal cannibal holocaust and in the gore stakes id say he managed ,e.g the chopping off the penis hanging women by breasts,jess francos cannibals on the other hand with al cliver is a total lamer of a movie by the way jungle holocaust aint francos cannibals,its deodatos cannibal(1977) 🙂
I've never bothered seeing Jungle Holocaust, I know it was made before Cannibal Holocaust, but I've heard nothing but bad things so I don't really consider it anything worthy of comparison.
CH was the first, true, successful cannibal film, the epitome of the sub-genre.
Ferox, while being more gory, was far less effective in it's use of gore. Much of it was over the top and silly, where as holocaust was grounded and extremely believable. Plus, it still totally own ferox when it comes to the animal death scenes, way more effective in Holocaust. It seems like Ferox had this "me too" thing about it where it just threw in some random animals being killed just to try to compete, and it failed miserably.
Also, lets not forget that Holocaust had a castration scene as well, and it was far far more realistic then the elastic gummy dick that was used in ferox.