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Very good Italian cannibal adventure!
Robert Harper is an explorer who's plane just crash landed in the jungles of Malaysia, some of his crew are killed mysteriously leaving only him and his best friend to survive as his pal disappears suddenly. Robert gets captured alive by a vicious tribe of wild cannibal people as they torture and torment him to insanity, a lovely cannibal girl helps him try to escape so he can find his friend and leave the island for good. <
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>Entertaining, bloody and well done Italian horror adventure drama from director Ruggero Deoato who gave us the infamous "Cannibal Holocaust" a few years later in 1979 and this movie is sort of a prequel to that movie. It's supposedly based on a true story, the movie features nudity and gore abound like an open chest cannibalism sequence and of course there's real live animal killing in this movie such as a Bat being strangled by a snake and a Alligator butchering scene that will remind viewers of the turtle scene in "Cannibal Holocaust". While not as brutal or hard to watch as "CH", it's still a very good cannibal epic and worth a viewing if your not faint hearted, Mei Mei Lei is quite a dish in this movie as the jungle beauty. <
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>The Shreik Show special edition DVD has very good picture and nice sound quality with it's first time shown in it's Uncut original widescreen version. There are some good extras like an Italian audio commentary from director Ruggero Deoato with subtitles, the original trailer with the title of this movie known as "Last Cannibal World", an introduction by Deoato, interviews, biographies, poster-and-still galleries, trailers to other Shreik Show releases and 10 collectable Lobby Card reproductions of the movie. <
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>Also recommended: "Cannibal Ferox", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Hell of the Living Dead" ( a.k.a. Night of the Zombies, Virus, Zombie Creeping Flesh)", "Man from Deep River", "Caligula", "Hostel", "Men Behind The Sun", "Zombi Holocaust", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & 2003 remake", "The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 and 2006)", "Primatives", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "The Toxic Avenger", "Ichi The Killer", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Battle Royale", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Blood Diner", "Cut and Run", "Re-Animator", "Wolf Creek", "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley", "Blood Sucking Freaks", H.G. Lewis movies, and "Cannibal Holocaust".

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Man talk about Random Act's the Lead to Nowhere!
Wasn't quite sure what to think from this earlier film from Ruggero Deodata, who brought us the universally "infamous" CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. I figured it wouldn't be nearly as rough or "controversial", and I was right. But JUNGLE HOLOCAUST is decent film in its own right... But seriously after watching this it wasn't all that great..... it was a bit ridiculous if you ask me. <
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>The reason is this, there are only two good cannibal scenes, and there are some unnecessary animal deaths through out this film. I'm not saying that the animal deaths bother me. I just think that it should have a reason. If you are going to kill an animal for a film have it have a purpose. For example in CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST when the turtle died they ate it afterwards. They actually used it! In this trash of a film a huge snake dies for no reason at all! An the scene when the crocodile gets slit open while its still alive, has a point, but I found that it still wasn't vary necessary. This film was not worth taking a life for! Its pure trash! there are really only three actual gore scenes. A tribal man gets his hand eaten by ants (which looks extremely fake!) The only good scene in this movie is when the girl that is helping our lead character gets eaten! That scene was awesome! that was the only thing that I found to be rewording in this film. This film basically drags out for a long time and has random pointless acts that go on for no reason. The one scene that annoyed me the most was when the tribal girl that is helping our main character escape from the cannibals is raped. An she is not raped by some one from the tribe, or some one fallowing them, she is raped by the person that she is trying to help! An for no reason at that! He just chases her down and has his way with her! It is pointless! An for some reason after this whole ordeal she finds respect for her rapist! <
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>This film doesn't make sense! If you want to see a cheap cannibal movie that is enjoyable then go see Mondo Cannibal or Cannibal Terror. This film is worth watching out of curiosity, but don't waste your money. It's not that good. Rent it first if you can I'm glad that I did. <
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Bon appetite!
If sitting through THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST gave you sweaty palms, that experience will seem like a trip to a petting zoo compared to this stomach-churning example of Italian cannibal movies, which revel in utilizing actual footage of animal deaths. This 1977 production is one of the most extreme examples of this bizarre subgenre, as the viewer is treated to the sight of an alligator being dissected alive, a python getting his skull smashed, and other blatant animal-rights violations. (They should have had a disclaimer: "All animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture.") <
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>The basic premise has a hapless group of "civilized" people, stranded on a Philippine island, confronting a tribe of cannibals. The events that follow are not so much plot points as they are a series of shock scenes; the depiction of human sacrifices are faked, of course, but it doesn't make them any less repulsive than the scenes involving genuine animal killings. <
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>A film like this only exists to shock an audience; on those terms, it does the job extremely well-well enough to put you off a diet of alligator, snake, and human flesh. Bon appetite! <
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