Mondo Cannibale

This is the trailer for Ruggero Deodato’s Last Cannibal World (1977). It obviously tries to lift on the success of the Mondo films, by hinting that the film itself is in fact a sort of pseudo-Mondo. The genre had become more extreme and shocking as the years went by, as can been seen in the following shocking video from Antonio Climati’s The Great Hunting (1974), in which a man is eaten by lions.



Two years later, with Cannibal Holocaust, Deodato turned that kind of Mondo into one of the subjects of his film. And funny enough it’s with that film that some people thought, that what was onscreen, was actually real...

Last Cannibal World: Point of no return

In this scene from Ruggero Deadato's Last cannibal world (1977, Ultimo mondo cannibale) the story is told simple and effective, as much with sound as visually.

After their plane brakes down, Robert (Massimo Foschi) and Rolf are stuck in the middle of the jungle and they decide to build a raft to get back to civilization. But they capsize in a rapid...


Robert manages to climb ashore...


...and sees that the rapid doesn't end.


"Rolf!"


But all we see and hear is the ferocious rapid.


But then Robert realizes...


there's something else he hears...


While the sound of the river fades out....


The sounds of birds...


and apes and insects takes over...


The endless jungle with it's horrors awaits him.