Feitico do Amazonas (aka Naked Amazon) is a documentary style (real or set-up I really don't know) adventure into the heart of the Brazilian 'Green Inferno'. The documentary (or is that mockumentary?) team launch a year long search at the end of Carnivale for the mysterious and reportedly dangerous native tribes at the heart of the deepest, greenest uncharted areas of the Amazon. Dangers are around every corner as the beautiful jungle tries to take out the filmmakers at every turn. 'Naked Amazon' is a relatively tame precursor to the 'Mondo' genre spearheaded by 'Mondo Cane' some eight years later. There is however some animal killing (a boa constrictor and possibly an anaconda) as well as a sequence that has a river of crocodiles being smack rather mercilessly with oars and such. As can be expected there is plenty of local nudity as well. So if these things make you squeamish than this film might not be for you.
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finally a cannibal film with....ANIMAL VIOLENCE
theromanempire-19 April 2024
Many people think the 1972 film deep river savages is the grandpa of the mondo genre. They are wrong.
Before deep river savages there was the naked animal cruelty jungle.
That distant 1954 cannibal flick is the real grandpa of the mondo genre.
And as a genuine jungle horror flick it had what is the obvious. Animal cruelty.
Back at a time when animal cruelty was not a crime. Back at a time when people still had human logic to recognise natural order of things.
While of course is not a good thing to harm animals on purpose the nature order of things sais otherwise.
In the jungle it's perfectly normal to harm humans and animals and that's what this film depicts so those who can't stand this just deal with it and move on.
We can't have a real cannibal movie in the jungle with no animals in it.
Understand that mr eli roth ? And who can understand what i mean that's good for him.
Before deep river savages there was the naked animal cruelty jungle.
That distant 1954 cannibal flick is the real grandpa of the mondo genre.
And as a genuine jungle horror flick it had what is the obvious. Animal cruelty.
Back at a time when animal cruelty was not a crime. Back at a time when people still had human logic to recognise natural order of things.
While of course is not a good thing to harm animals on purpose the nature order of things sais otherwise.
In the jungle it's perfectly normal to harm humans and animals and that's what this film depicts so those who can't stand this just deal with it and move on.
We can't have a real cannibal movie in the jungle with no animals in it.
Understand that mr eli roth ? And who can understand what i mean that's good for him.
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