On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the release of the cult film Cannibal Holocaust, the director Ruggero Deodato announces the long-awaited fourth chapter of its cannibalistic cycle, with excellent news: the new episode will not be a movie, but a video game.
BORNEO: A Jungle Nightmare is the official title of the new video game from Fantastico Studio, available on PC and consoles from summer 2021. Formerly known as Deodato’s Cannibal, the game is in development through active collaboration with the famous director Ruggero Deodato.
BORNEO: A Jungle Nightmare for Xbox
These are the themes that made the saga popular: the life of the natives, told in its cruelty, and cannibalism, powerful metaphors that reveal the most disturbing and deepest drives in our society.
BORNEO: A Jungle Nightmare is an interactive graphic horror adventure with the staging and the storyline of Ruggero Deodato, in which the player will take control of different characters, to reveal, little by little, the context that led them in a desperate expedition. The virgin jungles of Borneo.
It’s the end of the 90s. Pierce is the owner of Bloody Disgusting, opposite him in his Chicago studio are Jessica, his historic collaborator, and Alessandro, an Italian video journalist, visibly shocked. They have just returned from an expedition to BORNEO, which he financed, to recover from Josh, a friend of Alessandro, a film in which heinous acts of cannibalism by a local tribe were filmed.