It's a bonkers film about a crew who head off to South America to make a film about the Amazonian tribes and what they get up to - including, the aim, to show the world what nobody has seen before. They disappear and don't come back. So a few months later, some professor bod heads off with a tracking crew to see if they can find them.
This second crew witness scenes they wish they'd never seen, but it's only when they find the footage shot by the first team and bring it back to New York that the horror and tragedy becomes clear as to what happened to them, how badly behaved they were and what they witnessed.
So yes, loads of nudity, killings, cannibalism, maiming, (apparently real) footage of animals being killed, rapes and gang-rapes, alleged 'snuff' activities, graphic violence, hideous revenge from all sides, including rival tribes - and loads more. Nothing much is left to the imagination and it's certainly not one for the squeamish.
There's quite a bit of back-story to the production and fallout and I'll link the Wiki page in the first comment - including the arrest of Italian Director Ruggero Deodato who had to prove to the authorities that the actors involved were really still alive and the footage was not done for real!
It was banned in various places around the world but it can now be seen quite broadly, even on streaming platforms, but I have no idea how much has been edited for such outlets. There is an 'uncut' version on DVD and Blu-ray readily available now too. I guess time has opened people's mind to allowing such 'art'. Anyway, good luck if you fancy it! As regular readers of my dribblings will know, I usually find all this kind of terror/horror kinda funny, but this? No. Not really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust
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