Mondo Cannibale 2 – Der Vogelmensch (1977)

Mondo Cannibale 2 – Der Vogelmensch: Directed by Ruggero Deodato. With Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Sheik Razak Shikur. An oil prospector is captured by a violent and primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippines’ rain forest, but he manages to escape with a female hostage and tries to locate his missing companion and their airplane in order to return home.

“JUNGLE HOLOCAUST is a brutal, no-holds-barred early entry in the bizarre cannibal subgenre of the seventies and early eighties. Itu0026#39;s shocking, violent, immoral, sleazy and exploitive. In other words, it delivers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI canu0026#39;t defend this movie from an ethical standpoint. Even the observation that the live animal slaughter (which is fairly minimal here) is committed by people who apparently were members of a real tribe of primitives, as part of their daily routine doesnu0026#39;t change the fact that it was shot for purely sensational purposes. But it is undeniably intense, suspenseful and creepy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA plane lands in the Amazon wilds while searching for a couple of lost explorers. The people in the plane wander off a little too far and become separated. The movie then follows one of them, who is captured by a tribe of cannibals and kept prisoner for months. He finally manages to escape and kidnaps a young, beautiful female member of the tribe to use as a guide.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie has a gritty realism to it that makes it play almost like a documentary. It captures the gradual transformation of the character from a u0026quot;civilizedu0026quot; man to a grunting u0026quot;savageu0026quot; extremely well, although a scene in which he wins over his female companion by raping her is a little over-the-top, to say the least.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe midsection of the movie is almost entirely devoid of dialog, so the atrocious dubbing is confined mostly to the first and last sequences. Overall, itu0026#39;s a very well-made and unsettling thriller, although it would have been far more suspenseful had there not been a disclaimer at the beginning saying the main character survived to tell his story.”