A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
adultery
rape
snake
pig
culture clash
ritual
movie business
leech
spider
animal attack
controversy
swamp
tribe
vomit
amazon rainforest
film in film
human sacrifice
jungle
torture
rape and murder
brutality
cannibal
hatchet
south america
filmmaking
missing person
misogyny
ritual sacrifice
found footage
tortoise
video nasty
lost footage
animal cruelty
amazon tribe
vomiting woman
abused woman
film within a film
adulterous wife
film censorship
film industry
pseudo-documentary
cannibalism
guerilla filmmaking
banned film
disemboweling
film reel
yacomo
b-horror
found footage adjacent
Rank
#36 in 1980·#8592 overall
Trailer
IMDB
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Letterboxd
2.6 / 5
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Cast
Robert Kerman
Professor Harold Monroe
Francesca Ciardi
Faye Daniels
Luca Barbareschi
Mark Tomaso
Salvatore Basile
Chaco Losojos
Ricardo Fuentes
Miguel Lujan
Carl Gabriel Yorke
Alan Yates
Paolo Paoloni
1st Executive
Lionello Pio Di Savoia
2nd Executive
Luigina Rocchi
Ruggero Deodato
Man Sitting in NYU Campus (uncredited)
Enrico Papa
Pantheon Interviewer (uncredited)
David Sage
Alan's Father (uncredited)
Crew
Ruggero Deodato
Director
Riz Ortolani
Original Music Composer
Sergio D'Offizi
Director of Photography
Massimo Antonello Geleng
Production Design
Lamberto Bava
Assistant Director
Roberto Forges Davanzati
Camera Operator
Salvatore Basile
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
614 reviews
Jacob
1.0★ · 04/24/26
Here's a list of 10 things I'd rather do than watch this movie:
1) Shit myself
2) Watch Cats (2019)
3) AIDS
4) Play with glitter
5) Develop an allergy to cheese
6) Have both sides of my pillow warm
7) Listen to the Joe Rogan podcast
8) Visit North Korea
9) Eat Gandhi's flip flops
10) Slow cooker for dinner
Here's a list of 10 things I'd rather do than watch this movie:
1) Shit myself
2) Watch Cats (2019)
3) AIDS
4) Play with glitter
5) Develop an allergy to cheese
6) Have both sides of my pillow warm
7) Listen to the Joe Rogan podcast
8) Visit North Korea
9) Eat Gandhi's flip flops
10) Slow cooker for dinner
1
Blue
0
Killing an animal is not art. That’s abuse. It’s a vile look into what people will justify in the name of cinema.
This movie isn’t even worth rating. It’s one thing to portray horror. Another to create it.
Killing an animal is not art. That’s abuse. It’s a vile look into what people will justify in the name of cinema.
This movie isn’t even worth rating. It’s one thing to portray horror. Another to create it.
1
KATEYPRO
1.0★ · 05/09/26
ew
ew
Liselotte
5.0★ · 05/02/26
it was... something
it was... something
joan steichen
1.0★ · 05/01/26
Riz Ortolani’s score (especially the main leitmotif) is so wonderful it circles around into making me angry that it was used for this shit.
Riz Ortolani’s score (especially the main leitmotif) is so wonderful it circles around into making me angry that it was used for this shit.
