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TIL the 2nd highest grossing movie in Japan in the 1980s after E.T. was a $100,000 film called Cannibal Holocaust, which was so violent the director was arrested & charged with making a snuff movie. Although now viewed as one of the top horror movie of all time, it is still banned in many countries.

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