1972 · horror · cannibal · adventure
The Man from Deep River
Directed by Umberto Lenzi1h 33m1972
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Our read: The Man from Deep River (1972) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · cannibal · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / cannibal, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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