Deep River Savages. 1972.
Ivan Rassimove plays John a photographer in Thailand and ends up being captured by a tribe, but the daughter of the chief takes a shine and slowly initiates him to join them.
The one that started all the cannibal movies and directed by Umberto Lenzi who went on to do another cannibal movie later on his career, for a film of this genre with the horror we may expect it is also touching. I never really got on well with this film and never managed to make it all the way through to the end but managed it this time. The film does drag on and the gore is very limited but you can also feel the torture of John through the initiation tests of being tied up and having spit darts at the body and tied up underneath a blazing sun. If I put my mind to it I may watch this again.
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