Last Cannibal World (1977)

(AKA: Jungle Holocaust - Cannibal - The Last Survivor)

My rating - 6.5/10

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After a small private plane crashes in the jungle and the pilot dies the two survivors get lost in the jungle and one is captured by a tribe of vicious cannibals. He's tortured and humiliated until he manages to escape with the help of a female tribe member. As the tribe closes in on them they start to think there's no escape.

For me this is second only to Cannibal Holocaust as the best of the cannibal sub genre, with both being directed by Ruggero Deodato. It quite well made with Massimo Foschi giving a great performance as the captured man. He spends quite a bit of the movie fully naked too so fair play to him for doing that. The beautiful Me Me Lay is also great as the young woman who takes a shine to him and eventually helps him to escape.

The gore is decent and features a cannibal tribe member having his arm eaten by ants, Me Me Lay being gutted and having hot coals placed in her stomach, decapitated, cooked and eaten. There's death by traps, some cannibal munching, Foschi pulling a heart from a freshly killed cannibal and taking a bite out of it, and a woman giving birth by a river bank and throwing the newly born child into the river where it's eaten by crocodiles. Of course we also get some animal cruelty including a snake being killed with an axe, a bat being eaten by a snake and a crocodile being cut open and gutted while alive and then eaten.

As mentioned there's a lot of full frontal male and female nudity and also a pretty nasty rape scene thrown in for good measure. Last Cannibal World isn't for evereyone and it's graphic content will be too much for some, but if you've dipped your toes into this little sub genre before then this is one of the better ones and well worth a look.

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