Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

I must admit, I am a huge fan of the cannibal sub-genre, and the cannibal flick's from the 70's and 80's are some of my some of my favorite movie's of all time. It is no doubt the cannibal genre itself pushed the envelope further than any other genre as far as gore and shocking content is concerned, and for that, they will alway's hold the title of the most horrific movie's ever made in my opinion, and Man From Deep River is no exception.

Man From Deep River is shot on location in the real jungle, with real native's, real ritual's, and is based on a true story, which add's a lot of authenticty to the movie and give's it the feel of a documentary. I would think of it as a depressing, disturbing version of Indiana Jones on acid. I was really expecting to hate Man From Deep River after reading review's of people saying this is not gory, not shocking, it's boring ect. I think a lot of people forget that this was made in the early 70's when large amount of on-screen gore had not caught on yet. For the time this was made (72), it has a lot more gore and offensive content than any other film's made around this time period. Most horror film's made in the early 70's had gore, but the penetration was not on screen, in this film the gore is not only on screen but there is a decent amount of it, including real life animal death's. Which I do not necassarily agree with, but I don't think anyone who eat's meat has the right to complain about, murder is murder, regardless what the reason for it is.

Man From Deep River is a beatifully shot movie with great scenery, good acting, good plot, and has an authenticity that too many film's lack. If you are a fan of any other cannibal film's from Lenzi or Deodato, and want to see how the genre got it's start, I highly recommend picking this one up.

British photographer John Bradley (Ivan Rassimov) is in Thailand doing business in the jungles, until he is captured by a wild tribe as he is tormented and being used as a slave. However a beautiful tribal girl (Mai Mai Lei) falls in love with the man and her mother who knows English helps him escape but there is danger for the tribe as a vicious cannibal tribe sets war on the good tribe, as only John must protect them from the flesh-eaters.

Violent and very good Italian horror action drama that set the course for the Italian cannibal genre thanks to infamous Italian director Umberto Lenzi who would later give us the notorious "Cannibal Ferox". This movie is basically a cannibal version of "Dances with Wolves" but it was before that movie ever occured, the acting is alright but the music score is quite good and has a good deal of gory violence especially some shocking scenes of actual animal mutilation such as a monkey getting the top of it's skull sliced off with a sword to have it's brain eaten, an alligator gutting while it's alive and a goat being stabbed in the throat. While not as excellent or extreme as "Cannibal Holocaust" which is still the king of all cannibal movies, this is a very good introduction to the cannibal genre from Italy.

This DVD has a very good widescreen transfer with good picture and sound with some good extras like photo gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Interview with Umberto Lenzi and other Shreik Show Trailers.

Also recommended: "Cannibal Ferox", "Jungle Holocaust (a.k.a. Last Cannibal World)", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "I Drink Your Blood", "Cannibal Holocaust", "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley", "Battle Royale", "Ichi The Killer", "Faces of Death", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "Hostel 1 & 2", "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)", "Emmanuele and The Last Cannibals", "Eaten Alive", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "Dances with Wolves", "Cannibal The Musical" "and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series plus 2003 remake and The Beginning".