It all started with the Mondo Cane (60's) flicks that brought us cruelty from Africa. Afterwards Faces of Death (1980) was thrown just in front of us. It was a big issue then but with the release on Blu Ray it came clear that almost everything was faked. But both series had a lot of success so some people intended to go further on cruelty and brutal reality. So at the end of the eighties Inhumanities was thrown in our faces. Still to today it's hard to find some decent copies of the documentary. It's only available on VHS mostly coming from US rental shops. I was lucky to catch one. Most of it contains animal cruelty between animals but also between hunters. Some are indeed not for the squeamish becomes those animals are killed in a primitive way, for example with stones or spears. It contains also some weird operations done in a savage way and again it will be for some a bit too creepy. You will see some open head surgery without anesthesia. The most important part for me were the shots made in Congo were you see Belgium soldiers killing some rebels. Other shots from Congo are also a bit cruel. It's pure revenge between black and white. Sadly the part with the cannibals is as fake as it can be. Shots are taken from D'Amato's Emanuelle and the last cannibals. If you know the movie then you surely will recognize it. But overall, it's worth watching...if you can take it.
4 Reviews
Nothing new here
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki7 February 2013
Really lame Faces Of Death wannabe. Jungle natives performing open-skull surgery is the "highlight" here, supplemented by footage of animals attacking other animals and people follow, in scenes culled from several other European horror flicks, and from decades-old newsreels.
It looks like someone put this together in his living room one night, using nothing more than two VCRs and a handful of old, obscure (at that time) movies on video, and a bit of beer. Most footage presented here is high generation,, probably third or fourth generation at least, so its crummy, degenerating audio and picture quality don't help matters, either.
The fact that it just isn't very competent, coherent, or interesting also doesn't help.
It looks like someone put this together in his living room one night, using nothing more than two VCRs and a handful of old, obscure (at that time) movies on video, and a bit of beer. Most footage presented here is high generation,, probably third or fourth generation at least, so its crummy, degenerating audio and picture quality don't help matters, either.
The fact that it just isn't very competent, coherent, or interesting also doesn't help.
Bloody thieves!!!
haildevilman28 June 2006
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These people are CROOKS!
How can you show scenes from 'Trap Them And Kill Them' and try to pass it off as real? Especially when most of the people that might rent this have seen that one.
But then, who's going to go back to the vid store and say 'Give me my money back, no one really got slaughtered here?' Badly filmed jungle footage involving impromptu surgery seemed to be the selling point here.
Scenes from D'Amato's film were tossed in to see how many stupid or non-fans rented it.
I'm giving you all a direct order. Avoid this like the plague that it is.
How can you show scenes from 'Trap Them And Kill Them' and try to pass it off as real? Especially when most of the people that might rent this have seen that one.
But then, who's going to go back to the vid store and say 'Give me my money back, no one really got slaughtered here?' Badly filmed jungle footage involving impromptu surgery seemed to be the selling point here.
Scenes from D'Amato's film were tossed in to see how many stupid or non-fans rented it.
I'm giving you all a direct order. Avoid this like the plague that it is.
A meh film
sootyjared21 January 2019
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A weird hybrid between the faces of death copycat shockumentary films and a more traditional Mondo film on "the unknown world". Featuring human sacrifice, animals killing animals, poachers killing or capturing animals (I mostly skipped the parts involving the poachers), impressive surgery by witch doctor and then the modern variant done by surgeons.
About half way through the film, it shows a poorly edited scenes of "Cannibalism" which is basically ripped from a cannibal film from the early 80s. A similarly suspicious scene shows a man being attacked by a crocodile. Newsreel of a war in the Congo and the aftermath of said war along with executions of the rebels. More scenes of poachers which Includes an bunch of vultures being blown up and a love scene - that seems to be a cheap way for its creator to put in a sex scene, if only for a few seconds - then the film ends with some beauty scenes of alive animals, with a closing message over a depressing video showing the bones of dead animals.
Overall, this film is bad, it does contain some interesting scenes but most of the runtime is wasted on shots of poachers, scenes of apparent cannibalism and overall poorly selected videos which has no meaning other than filler to pad out the film until it can get to the next scene. It's as if someone just found various clips of Africa, edited them together and talked over them without any goal other than profit. The only positive thing about this film is that is does contain scenes that I have not seen before, other than that, it's pretty boring and meaningless.
About half way through the film, it shows a poorly edited scenes of "Cannibalism" which is basically ripped from a cannibal film from the early 80s. A similarly suspicious scene shows a man being attacked by a crocodile. Newsreel of a war in the Congo and the aftermath of said war along with executions of the rebels. More scenes of poachers which Includes an bunch of vultures being blown up and a love scene - that seems to be a cheap way for its creator to put in a sex scene, if only for a few seconds - then the film ends with some beauty scenes of alive animals, with a closing message over a depressing video showing the bones of dead animals.
Overall, this film is bad, it does contain some interesting scenes but most of the runtime is wasted on shots of poachers, scenes of apparent cannibalism and overall poorly selected videos which has no meaning other than filler to pad out the film until it can get to the next scene. It's as if someone just found various clips of Africa, edited them together and talked over them without any goal other than profit. The only positive thing about this film is that is does contain scenes that I have not seen before, other than that, it's pretty boring and meaningless.
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