Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Ruggero Deodato

Writers:

Tito Carpi (screenplay)
Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay)

Release Date:

March 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror

Tagline:

Can this modern man survive in a Stone Age world?

Plot:

An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.

Plot Keywords:

Cannibal | Escape | Jungle | Primitive | Part Of Trilogy

Cast

Massimo Foschi	...	Robert Harper
Me Me Lai	...	Pulan
Ivan Rassimov	...	Rolf
Sheik Razak Shikur	...	Charlie
Judy Rosly	...	Swan
Suleiman	...	Native
Shamsi	...	Native

Also Known As:

Cannibal (UK) (video title)
Carnivorous (USA) (reissue title)
Jungle Holocaust (USA) (DVD box title)
Last Cannibal World (International: English title)
The Last Survivor (USA) (censored version)
Cannibals (Greece) (video box title) [el]
De sista kannibalerna (Sweden) [sv]
Fases da Morte 8 - O Último Mundo dos Canibais (Brazil) [pt]
Horror Cannibal (France) (video title) [fr]
Kannibaalit (Finland) [fi]
Le dernier monde cannibale (France) [fr]
Mondo Cannibale 2 - Der Vogelmensch (West Germany) [de]
Mondo cannabale 2 (Poland) [pl]
Mundo Canibal (Brazil) [pt]
Mundo caníbal (Spain) [es]
O Último Mundo dos Canibais (Brazil) [pt]
Viimeiset kannibaalit (Finland) [fi]

Runtime:

92 min | Sweden:82 min (heavily cut) | USA:82 min (R-rated version) | South Korea:85 min (heavily cut) | UK:87 min (heavily cut) | Australia:82 min (heavily cut)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:18 (re-rating: 2005) (uncut) | Norway:(Banned) (1982-2005) | Australia:R (re-rating: 1984) (heavily cut) | USA:X (1984 release) | USA:Unrated (uncut) | UK:18 (re-rating: 2003) (heavily cut) | USA:R (heavily cut) | Australia:Refused Classification (original rating: 1977) | UK:X (original rating: 1977) (heavily cut) | USA:X (1984 re-release) | Germany:Not Rated (DVD rating) | West Germany:18 (uncut) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating: 2007) | Finland:K-18 | France:-18 | Iceland:(Banned) | Italy:VM18 | South Korea:18 (1995) | Sweden:15 (heavily cut)

Filming Locations:

Malaysia

Company:

Erre Cinematograsica S.r.l.

Trivia:

First part of Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Trilogy" also including Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Inferno in diretta (1985).

Movie Connections:

Edited into Mangiati vivi! (1980)

Bunch of SAVAGES !!!

A four-headed team clumsily ends up stuck in a jungle. Pretty soon, two of them die (rather clumsy again) while savage aborigines are chasing the other two males. The duo depletes one last time when one of them disappears during a wild-river flow …does it have to be said…clumsy! The supposedly last cannibal tribe on earth imprisons the one man left, named Robert. They don't start cooking him just yet, but fool around with him a little, first. He escapes and takes a local girl with him, who serves the role of beautiful hostage. However, the journey through the undiscovered jungle is hard, long and full of surprises.

Ruggero Deodato's general rehearsal before unleashing the notorious `Cannibal Holocaust' upon the world is an explicit horror film, but not as shocking or repulsive as its successor. This film merely serves as an old-fashioned adventure-movie, there were Cannibal Holocaust is a severely shocking ethical portrait. If you ignore all the illogicalness of this film, you'll have yourself a good time. That's a fact. It's a rough and straight-to-the-point horror production with more than enough footage to keep you entertained…although a lot depends on your definition of entertainment, of course. Italian horror standards stand throughout the whole film: gore, sleaze and cruelty! Since so many things are happening during the first 20 minutes of `Jungle Holocaust', the film tends to get tedious after a while…or so you would think! Surprisingly enough, there still are more than enough adrenalin-filled sequences that keep you alert and – and this really is positive in my book – Deodato gives an excellent portrayal of how someone is unintentionally driven into complete madness and a total loss of realism. Jungle Holocaust contains quite a lot of animal cruelty, which can be regarded as offensive by Italian horror-haters. The crocodile-dissection easily equals the vicious tortoise slaughtering in `Cannibal Holocaust'. The cannibals themselves are some of the wickedest I ever saw and they seem to follow some bizarre rituals, too. They show an unusual interest for male nudity and they don't seem to worry too much about controversial handlings such as murdering an infant (pretty disturbing sequence that was). They do bring forward beautiful women, as Me Me Lai is the sexiest native girl I ever saw. Jungle Holocaust is essential viewing for Italian horror/sleaze fans. Not as memorable as `Holocaust' or `Ferox'…but certainly worth your time.