“He dared the forbidden river where adventure ends and
hell begins!” This former 'video nasty' is regarded as the first film
in the cycle of Italian cannibal movies that reared their bloody heads
throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Yet Umberto Lenzi's Man From Deep
River – otherwise known as Deep River Savages, Sacrifice!, or
Mondo Cannibale – ironically features very little flesh eating. Instead,
the film focuses more on the culture clash that comes about when a
photojournalist from the western world is captured by a remote tribe somewhere
in the wilds between Thailand and Burma - as 88 Films' DVD presentation inspires heated debate...
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