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#10,443 All-time worldwide
#99 1980 releases

Movie profile

Cannibal Holocaust

1980 · 95 min · F.d. Cinematografica

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.0M
Budget $100,000
Gross minus budget $1.9M
ROI 20.00x

Domestic gross

$960,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$412,800

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Cannibal Holocaust ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,443 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #99 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Primary genre #987 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#10,440 The Man from Elysian Fields 2001 · $2.0M #10,441 Betty Blue 1986 · $2.0M #10,442 Nemesis 1992 · $2.0M #10,500 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 · $2.0M #10,501 Limbo 1999 · $2.0M #10,502 The Top Bet 1991 · $2.0M

Quick answer

How did Cannibal Holocaust (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) earned a reported $2.0M worldwide against a reported $100.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 20.00x. In this database it currently ranks #10,443 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #99 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,000,000
Budget
$100,000
Gross minus budget
$1,900,000
ROI
20.00x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 7, 1980
Production
F.D. Cinematografica, Bolivariana Films, United Artists Europa
Countries
CO, IT

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, Cannibal Holocaust is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from F.D. Cinematografica. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.0M, reported production budget is $100,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.9M, ROI is 20.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,443 all-time in the current chart set and #99 among 1980 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.