Primitif (1978)
Average cannibal flick (spoilers)
13 May 2000
Warning: Spoilers
Well, I bought Primitives before having seen it, and it was just okay. The acting was terrible (but that's par for the course, I'd say) and it was pretty gory in spots, but I couldn't help laughing myself silly at the part where a cannibal's thrown STONE axe boomerangs and hits him. Now, don't let that confuse you, this is a serious film, but I really have to wonder why they didn't edit that ridiculous part. Also, near the end, it takes the main characters about 20 seconds to build a very complicated raft without tools.

On the plus side, there are some gutsy cannibals (one scene where they're messing around with a snake) and some surprising underwater photography, which is probably expensive, especially when the film's obviously ultra-low budget is considered.

As a whole, this films is like a cheesy combo of Jungle Holocaust and Make Them Die Slowly. In the end I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except die-hard jungle cannibal movie fans, like me.
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