Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

MovieGuy01 I found Last Cannibal World to be a great film. It was heavily cut and banned in Britain for quite some years. It starts off with a plane which crashes into the jungle. One of the survivors Robert gets lost and while trying to find a way out of the jungle he gets captured by cannibals. He is humiliated, stripped naked, and he has to face certain tortures and humiliations until he escapes with a cannibal woman. He is thrown into a hole he then tries to find his plane which could be stuck anywhere in the jungle so he can go home. The two then set out to try to find Rolf and the plane, with the cannibal tribe who happen to be following right behind them. I thought that this was a very good cannibal film which was directed by Ruggero Deodato.

Sandcooler Is there anything easier to make than cannibal movies? You go recruit some guys to play angry natives at the local grocery store and a random woman who wants to be famous in a locally and not really kind of way. So you plastic surge the hell out of her, then find a guy who can't have sex at home because his mother always walks in looking for the lingerie brochure and ask him if he wants to have intercourse with this native silicone-enhanced woman. If there's a plot it's purely coincidental. Take this one. A bunch of people are in a plane and suddenly they either crash or make an emergency landing,it's really something in between. Than they walk around in the jungle forever. A year later Ruggero Deodato would solve this by having everything happen twice and extending the eating scenes but he didn't come up with that yet here. So the vaguely professorish guy among them soon finds himself captured by these savages. They don't eat him, because then the movie would be over. Instead they keep him for a couple of days and then let him escape like there are not hundreds of them. And then it really sinks like a brick. This is just plain bad, not even the shock factor is handled professionally, sometimes less is more, and sometimes cutting up a real crocodile for this goddamn movie barely anyone will ever see is just mean. Disgusting, and not in a good way.

BA_Harrison Many years ago, when I was too young to see such things for myself, my dad described to me a scene from a cannibal movie that he had watched at the local flea pit: a man finds a scrap of cloth in the jungle; when he picks it up, a trap is triggered which leaves him impaled on a huge spiky ball. Years later, when I myself developed an interest in all things gory, I recalled his description of this moment, but realised that he had never told me the title of the film.Now, after trawling through virtually every film in the genre, I have finally discovered the identity of this elusive flick: it is none other than Ruggero Deodato's Jungle Holocaust.Deodato, who would later bring us the incredible Cannibal Holocaust (1980), the king of all Italian gut-muncher films, fills this jungle adventure/survival horror with everything one would come to expect from a cannibal film—graphic gore, animal deaths and nudity— and it is, in my opinion, the first true example of the genre (some may argue that Umberto Lenzi's 1972 movie, The Man From Deep River, should be given this accolade, but the cannibals in that were merely incidental).The purportedly true story tells of a group of four unfortunates who crash their plane in a remote area inhabited by man-eating stone-age natives. They successfully fix their aircraft, but before they can take off, they are attacked. Two of the group are killed, but Robert Harper (Massimo Foschi) and Rolf (Ivan Rassimov) escape into the jungle, but soon become lost in the dense foliage.Arriving at a river, they build a raft and head upstream. However, their craft enters some rapids and overturns when they hit a rock. Rolf vanishes into the raging waters and Robert crawls to safety only to be taken captive by the cannibals. He is taken to their cave, where he undergoes much humiliation and torture (he is stripped naked, has his tallywhacker flicked by inquisitive kids, is pelted with rocks, and kept in a cage where he is fed offal and urinated on). On the brighter side, he also meets a gorgeous female member of the savage tribe (played by genre regular Me Me Lai, who is pretty much naked for the whole film) who gives him a hand shandy for his troubles!After he realises that he is eventually to be used as bait for crocodiles, Robert makes a desperate bid for freedom, taking the lovely Ms. Lai as his hostage. The natives, understandably peeved, set off in pursuit...Jungle Holocaust is a gruelling tale of survival against the odds that is packed with nauseating scenes of mutilation guaranteed to upset those with weak stomachs. Victims are graphically dismembered, disembowelled and devoured, and a native woman is even seen giving birth and then throwing her unwanted newborn child into a river. But it is a nasty moment where a live croc is gutted that upset me the most, easily rivalling the infamous 'turtle' scene from Cannibal Holocaust for most revolting moment in Italian cinema.Although not as well known as many other genre entries (such as Cannibal Ferox, Eaten Alive or Mountain of the Cannibal God), this is still one of the better examples of the genre, and essential viewing for all gore-hounds and fans of Italian sleaze.

The_Void Apparently based on the true story of Robert Harper, Ruggero Deodato's first foray into the cheap Italian cannibal gore sub-genre serves as both an interesting prelude to his quintessential cannibal masterpiece, Cannibal Holocaust, and as a decent entry in the cannibal cycle in its own right. While not as gory or as thought-provoking as Deodato's later film, The Last Cannibal World still stands out for its superb atmosphere and the chilling idea of a journey into the unknown. The film capitalises on the fact that it's following a 'stone age' tribe, and this is shown by the way that the director often makes the gory set-pieces the centre of attention. The simple plot follows an aeroplane carrying four people as it crashes in the jungle. It's not long before Robert Harper is captured by cannibals, stripped, humiliated and thrown in a hole. The tribe keeps him alive on morsels, and eventually, he manages to escape their capture. However, getting home isn't going to be easy, as cannibals aren't the only thing to worry about in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.I'm not sure how the real life Robert Harper would have taken this film. While Ruggero Deodato makes the movie as gruelling as his ordeal must have been; it still can't be nice to have the worst experience of your life turned into a cheap Italian gore flick. I'm sure he won't be too disheartened by Massimo Foschi's portrayal of him, however, as the actor does a good job of conveying the desperation and humility that this kind of situation would instill in any man. He is joined by cult actor and gore film regular Ivan Rassimov, in a role that is too small for him to make a big impression; but he's an actor that is always nice to see in movie. Me Me Lai apparently doesn't mind spending an entire film in the nude as the member of the cannibal tribe that takes pity on our hero's. Naturally, there's plenty of violence here; and while it's not as graphic as some of the later cannibal films, like Deodato's own Cannibal Holocaust and Umberto Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox, I still wouldn't recommend this to people with weak stomachs. The atmosphere surrounding the jungle is well done, and the fact that it's based on a true story makes this film more fascinating for me, at least. The Last Cannibal World comes recommended to anyone with an interest in cannibal films.