Le Dernier Monde cannibale

"Ultimo Mondo Cannibale" is the cannibal flick Ruggero Deodato made before his notorious "Cannibal Holocaust".

It's pretty tedious. Of course there's the requisite animal cruelty, allegedly not shot by Deodato himself but one of the producers. This is mostly staged animal death, such as a horrible scene where a bat, having just been tied up by the producer, is thrown to a snake which crushes it to death while screeching noises play on the soundtrack, and a scene where a crocodile is eviscerated by the natives.

This one is set in the Philippines - are there even tribal societies there? - rather than the old standby, the Amazon. There's less plot here and barely any dialogue. It mostly revolves around a guy who crash lands in the jungle, gets taken hostage and imprisoned by "savages", escapes with the help of a woman who he inexplicably rapes...

Yes, it's a pretty nasty flick. There's no attempt to make the character sympathetic at all, and that on top of all the violence - however subpar the gore effects actually are - makes you kind of grossed out.

But I guess that's why you're watching it in the first place.