Four New York film-makers head off to South-America to shoot a documentary about cannibals. They disappear. A rescue team is sent out, and promptly establish contact with an amazon tribe called the Tree-people. A level of trust is forged, and eventually the Tree-people handover a revelatory gift: the missing film crew's footage...
DVD Extras:
Trailers, picture gallery.Banned since 1982, Rugerro Deodato's gut-churner finally gets a release minus almost 6 minutes' worth of what the BBFC calls "real animal cruelty" and "eroticised sexual violence". The best of the '70s Italian flesh-eating flicks, it boasts a lyrical score and luminous photography, while the mockumentary format achieves a certain grubby realism. Problem is, aside from the unexciting trailers and picture gallery, it's an extras-free affair, with no Making Of or broader explorations of the whole cannibal movie sub-genre. That really is disgusting.
