Jungle Holocaust
Jungle Holocaust is a 1977 film from Italy, directed by Ruggero Deodato, running 91 minutes. reelscum files it under cannibal boom.
- Year
- 1977 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Ruggero Deodato
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- The Last Survivor · Carnivorous · Cannibals · Last Cannibal World · Horror Cannibal · Mondo Cannibale 2
Defined in the glossary: Cannibal boom
Deodato's first pass. Slower, meaner, less interesting than what followed.
Ruggero Deodato's first jungle film, three years before Cannibal Holocaust, and a dry run for it. An oil prospector is captured by a tribe, stripped and caged, and slowly reduced to something feral himself before escaping. It is slower and less structurally ambitious than the film that made Deodato notorious.
The gore and the real animal cruelty that define the cycle are present, and Deodato is clearly working out ideas he would sharpen later. Massimo Foschi commits fully to the physical ordeal.
Of interest mainly as the warm-up to a more infamous film, with the same content warnings attached.
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Written about
- The Italian cannibal cycle, 1977 to 1985
Eight years, a dozen films, one arrest, and a court appearance to prove the cast were still alive.
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A serious film about media atrocity that committed real atrocity.