Man From Deep River (Italy, 1972) – 3/10
Umberto Lenzi’s jungle adventure turns out more of a Thailand holiday than survival fight. Ivan Rassimov plays a tourist who is captured by a tribe somewhere between Thailand and Burma. After some struggle and torture he starts enjoying his new lifestyle… and everybody lives happily after. Or rather would, if the local cannibals weren’t giving them hard time. But the human eaters are only a small side theme. Unfortunately there’s more animals killed (for real) than humans (not for real). In fact, the cannibals only eat one Thai hooker turned actress. Perhaps a higher body count would’ve improved the entertainment value. Now film has a bad tendency to slip to the unexciting side. Ruggero Deodato later directed a superior semi-sequel The Last Cannibal World (1977) with the same leads.
- dvd / R1
The Man with the Golden Gun (UK, 1974) – 7/10
Christopher Lee, golden gun, evil midget, fighting Thai school girls, Hong Kong, kick ass soundtrack… Need I say more? High level entertainment.
- TV
Pink Flamingos (USA, 1972) - 1/10
Depressingly pretentious and boring garbage.
- TV
Cut and Run (Italy, 1985) – 6/10
No cannibals this time, but drug dealers and indians give a reporter and her cameraman hard time staying alive in Ruggero Deodato’s enjoyable jungle thriller.
- TV