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Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977)

Ultimo mondo cannibale poster
Directed by
Ruggero Deodato
Genre
splatter film, exploitation film, cannibal film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 108 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man is stranded on a jungle island after a plane crash. He must fight to survive against a hostile cannibal tribe.

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What happens

Ultimo mondo cannibale (English: Last Cannibal World; also known as Cannibal, Jungle Holocaust and The Last Survivor) is a 1977 Italian cannibal exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici and Renzo Genta. Starring Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov, the plot follows a man trying to escape from a jungle island inhabited by a cannibal tribe. It is the precursor to Deodato's notorious Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and was originally slated to be directed by Umberto Lenzi as a follow-up to his prototypical 1972 cannibal film Man from Deep River. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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