Ruggero Deodato directed this gory cannibal movie, one of many to pour out of Italy in the wake of Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio 1972, which also starred Me Me Lay and Ivan Rassimov. Rassimov's plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and he is soon captured by a Stone-Age tribe, which tries to kill him -- until a native woman Lay frees him for sex and pays with her life. There is real mondo-style footage of animals devouring each other to go along with staged horrors such as Lay being gutted and having her body cavity...
Ruggero Deodato directed this gory cannibal movie, one of many to pour out of Italy in the wake of Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio 1972, which also starred Me Me Lay and Ivan Rassimov. Rassimov's plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and he is soon captured by a Stone-Age tribe, which tries to kill him -- until a native woman Lay frees him for sex and pays with her life. There is real mondo-style footage of animals devouring each other to go along with staged horrors such as Lay being gutted and having her body cavity filled with hot coals. Deodato returned with the more extreme Cannibal Holocaust a few years later.
Ruggero Deodato's Jungle Holocaust 1977 may not be the most notorious of Italian cannibalism exploitation films, but it can be credited with cementing the cult subgenre and paving the way for the film that is the most notorious, the director's all-too-realistic follow-up Cannibal Holocaust. And that doesn't mean Jungle is any less gruesome, disturbing, or engrossing than its progeny, either. Robert Harper Massimo Foschi is an average entrepreneur with a comfortable life, until his plane crashes near an isolated development in New Guinea. Stranded in the wilderness, Harper soon finds himself at the mercy of the natives, who are of course ruthless -- and hungry -- cannibals. Enduring horrible physical torture and sure death, Harper finds a Planet of the Apes-like savior in one of the cannibal women Me Me Lai, who feels a sympathy for the stranger. Together they must try to escape the tribe. In no way for the squeamish, but in every way for starving gore fans, Jungle Holocaust is a must-have entry both in its genre and in Deodato's canon.
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