Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Konterr Brilliant and touching

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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.

Scarecrow-88 Two oil men, Robert(Massimo Foschi in a very demanding role)and Rolf(Ivan Rassimov)get lost in the wilderness and have to fend for their lives in the jungle populated by a Cannibal tribe whose methods hearken back to the Stone Age. They get separated after an unfortunate incident riding a river when their raft breaks apart on top of rocky rapids. Robert especially finds himself in a precarious position. He is taken by a tribe, raped of his clothes, and imprisoned for use as an alligator target(they use various animals to trap alligators for their meat). Somehow Robert must find away out of their clutches and back to the airstrip holding the airplane that brought him to the godforsaken jungle. With a female Pulan(Me Me Lai)he will need her to introduce him to foods or means of nourishment to stay alive. But, the presence of those cannibals always weighs on Robert's mind.More of a survivalist drama than a horror film shows various snakes feeding(such as a fruit-bat & Gila monster)and does show the cannibals partake in a human meal. Stnningly photographed and quite exciting, this film surprised me a bit as we see Robert slowly descend into a primitive in order to make it in this beast of a habitat.

Crap_Connoisseur There is something eerie about Jungle Holocaust and it has little to do with the cannibal action. The eeriness lies with the fact that this film plays like a dress rehearsal for Deodato's towering masterpiece, "Cannibal Holocaust". That is not to say that Jungle Holocaust is not an enjoyable film in its own right but the faux documentary scenario, opening sequence, genital pulling, animal violence and even parts of the score seemed to have made their way into "Cannibal Holocaust".Jungle Holocaust opens with a plane flying above the Malaysian jungle. Robert and Ralph arrive at their remote base only to find it abandoned. Before you can say 'goat entrails', Robert and Ralph get separated, leading to Robert being taken captive by the local cannibal tribe. This begins a long sequence in which Robert is pelted with various objects and walks around naked. When Robert realises that the cannibals intend to use him as live crocodile bait, he takes Pulan hostage and flees.In my opinion, Jungle Holocaust is more of an adventure film than a horror movie. There are violent deaths but the majority of the film deals with the clash of cultures and Robert's attempt to escape from the tribe. And with the exception of some unfortunate wildlife, the body count is unusually low for a Deodato film. However, this film does have its own unique charm. Firstly, it was entirely filmed on location in Malaysia and the cannibals are played by locals. As a result, there are none of the Caucasian cannibals that populate most films in this genre and the scenery is truly stunning. This imbues the film with a sense of realism that the ridiculous story really does not deserve.I have always believed that Deodato is one of the most gifted directors ever to stand behind a camera and his direction here is fantastic as usual. The landscape is beautifully captured and Ruggero's camera work is stylish without being pretentious. The director extracts decent performances from his cast, some of whom would go on to become Deodato regulars. Massimo Foschi is great as Robert and somehow maintains his dignity despite spending a good third of the film completely naked. Cannibal queen, Me Me Lai, turns in another charismatic performance as a charming cannibal, while Ivan Rassimov makes an impression as Ralph. Ubaldo Continiello's score also deserves praise. Deodato certainly knew how to choose composers. Genre fans might be interested to note that Lamberto Bava worked on the film as a second unit director.The film is not particularly gory, with the exception of the animal violence. Deodato claims he did not film the animal killings, which I find somewhat disingenuous as he uses similar footage in numerous later movies. The animal violence is even stronger in this film than in "Cannibal Holocaust". The dead eagle being cut from a crocodile's stomach being particularly gruesome. The producers may have employed more of this type of violence due to the lack of cannibal action. If these cannibals were real they would be dying of starvation. There are only a couple of cannibalistic acts but the effects are well done and there is something almost beautiful about the scene in which a victim's ribcage is used as a cooker. The most startling non flesh-eating moment occurs when a woman gives birth and throws her baby to a crocodile. Nice touch, Ruggero! Jungle Holocaust is definitely one of the better films in the cannibal genre despite the fact that it is not particularly scary. Few cannibal movies have been made with as much skill and attention to detail. Fans of "Cannibal Holocaust" will also enjoy seeing the seeds of that great opus.