Monday, October 25, 2010

Can this modern man survive in a Stone Age world?


Most people remember Ruggero Deodato for his 1980’s film Cannibal Holocaust which caused quite an uproar and almost lead to Deodato being convicted of murder. What some do not realize is that Cannibal Holocaust was part of a cannibal trilogy, which started with Jungle Holocaust. Jungle Holocaust was released in 1977 and received little attention it wasn’t till the release of Cannibal Holocaust that people started to take notice. What is interesting about Jungle Holocaust is that it is one of the first Cannibal horror films and it kick started the cannibal trend. The film follows Robert Harper a wealthy entrepreneur who is travelling to a jungle located in New Guinea, although we are never really told his reasons for going. All we know is that there is a team of scientists waiting for him and they’ve discovered a tribe of natives thought to be extinct. Of course this tribe happens to be cannibals obsessed with consuming everything they come across.
After Roberts’s plane crashes he is left stranded in the middle of jungle and finds himself being stocked by a cannibalistic tribe of natives. It doesn’t really take much thought to realize that what this movie will amount to, which great gore and silly situations and over the top killings. Now if you are like me and love your movies with lots of guts and mayhem Jungle Holocaust does not disappoint. From man eating ants to human barbeque this movie will gross out even the most jaded fans, to some degree. Personally I found the sequence where a woman gives birth and immediately drowns the baby to be one of the more intense scenes. But what really stood out was when Robert rapes and beats one of the female tribe members and then she becomes his “wife.” This was my “what the fuck?” moment in the film.
Anyway if you want to see a half naked man run through the jungle being chased by even more naked natives then Jungle Holocaust is your movie. If you want to see half naked women also in the jungle this is your movie. If you want gore and senseless killing well I am pretty sure that you get the idea at this point so just go watch it already!

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