DVD Review: Lust

Lust (aka Torino centrale del vizio)

Italy 1979
Director: Bruno Vani, Renato Polselli (uncredited)
Writers: Alessandro Moretti, Renato Polselli, Bruno Vani
Starring: Rita Calderoni, Raúl Martínez, Tony Matera, Marina Daunia, Christina Hui, Emanuela Cannarsa, Albertina Capuani, Sergio Baldacchino, Mario Castagneri.

DVD Released: August 31st 2010
Cert: NR
Running Time: 78 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Letterboxed Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono Italian
Subtitles: English
Distributor: Mya Communication
Region: 0 NTSC

The Film:

So I usually end my reviews with some comments on the A/V presentation of the DVD I've watched but in this case the quality of the picture (and it's audio) affected my experience so much that I'm sticking it right up front; to say the transfer sucked donkey balls would be a massive understatement and, frankly, an insult to the burros bollocks which I can only imagine look better than this! It really does look like some bloke's discovered a mossy old European beta max tape in his waterlogged basement and then proceeded to transfer it to VHS and then to DVD, after letting his dog urinate on it first of course. It. Really. Is. That. Bad.

Phew, OK, now that's out of the way all that's left for me to do is tell you just how fucking awful the actual film itself is........

Helen (Rita Calderoni), a femme fatale with a nebulous mysterious past has fallen for a strapping young Italian bloke and wants to give up her former life to be with him. First however she wants to be honest with her fiance about just how much of a fucked up nutjob she really is; cue scenes of Helen with her lesbian tennis instructor, working as a drug mule and getting gang-banged by a bunch of bikers as her poor beau watches. But he's willing to accept her for what she is (you what!?) and Helen turns over a new leaf, only to suddenly vanish right after the wedding, d'oh! We follow said bloke as he tries to discover what happened to Helen; was she kidnapped by the shady organisation she used to work for? Did she just change her mind about the marriage? Or perhaps she forgot to try bestiality and has gone to satisfy her curiosity on that front as well..........

Actually writing that all out it makes it sound like an interestingly bonkers 70's spaghetti z-flick, believe me it isn't. A famous director once said about watching film 'I'd rather be confused for 20 minutes than bored for 5 minutes' well he should try and sit through the first 20 minutes of this one and he'd soon change his mind. I had no idea whatsoever what was happening - seemingly random images are played while Italian narration drones on in voice over about 'Helen, where is Helen, one moment here, the next she was gone, but I see her everywhere' wait, who, what? The basic plot of the film is painstakingly pieced together by the viewer after about 50 minutes of turgid indecipherable non-linear almost experimental onscreen pap and this isn't Memento folks, there isn't an intriguing twist or any hook at all to get the viewer interested or invested in the characters. The acting is uniformly awful, the sleaze factor is quite high with 70's style violence, rape, nudity, etc.

Aha apparently this is a "super-rare, almost lost film by Bruno Vani and co-directed by the late, great Renato Polselli. Mastered from impossible-to-find materials, this is a fair quality print." Fair quality, I had a chuckle over that one! So it's of some kind of significance to fans of Polselli presumably, good luck finding any of those!

The Disc: 

Dodgy letterboxed widescreen picture. VHS tape flaws all over the place, blown-out contrast, washed-out colours that make it seem like you're watching the image through a blizzard. Lots of print damage and debris. Mono Italian audio track is muffled, tinny, distorted and prone to drop-outs. Removable English subtitles are provided with hilarious translation errors throughout, so that's a bonus!

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano

DVD Review: Uppercut Man

Uppercut Man (aka The Opponent, aka Qualcuno pagherà)

Italy 1987
Director: Sergio Martino
Writers: Robert Brodie Booth, Maria Perrone Capano, Luciano Martino, Sergio Martino, Sauro Scavolini
Starring: Daniel Greene, Giuliano Gemma, Keely Shaye Smith, Ernest Borgnine, Mary Stavin, Bill Wohrman, James Warring, A.J. Duhe, Herb Goldstein, Ruben Rabasa.
DVD Released: August 31st 2010
Cert: NR
Running Time: 94 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo English, Dolby Digital Stereo Italian
Subtitles: N/A
Distributor: Mya Communication
Region: 0 NTSC

The Film:

Lumbering meatbag Bobby Mulligan (Daniel Greene) is a wannabe pro-boxer waiting for his big shot. In the meantime he has a tendency to get himself into street fights with local bums at every turn, presumably his neanderthal features and general henchman type appearance tend to rub people the wrong way. Even Bobby's girlfriend's father Victor (the amiable Ernest Borgnine) can't stand him to the extent that the old guy slaps him silly when he sees Bobby hugging his daughter. Poor guy. Hang on though; he saves local mobster Duranti's trashy alcoholic moll Gilda from a back-alley gang-raping and suddenly he's in with a shot at his first ever professional fight; Duranti (Giuliano Gemma) being a fight promoter as well as a ruthless Bond-villain style baddie. All goes well for a while as Bobby wins fight after fight. Now he's in with a shot at the heavyweight championship but dumbass Bobby is seduced by aforementioned trashy slutbag Gilda and gets caught with his finger in the VD honey-jar by Duranti. As punishment the mobster orders Bobby to throw a fight, but of course at the last minute Hulk get mad and win fight. So begins a cycle of sadistic revenge between Duranti and Bobby that will escalate to murder and bitch-slapping's aplenty...........

A spaghetti-boxing flick? The Italians were a bit slow to catch on with the Rocky formula as by 1987 Stallone was already on Rocky IV but nevertheless here we are. Prolific spaghetti-meister Sergio Martino is on directorial duties here, happy working in whatever genre got him paid, Martino had been most successful with giallo murder mystery thrillers that usually starred popular genre actress Edwige Fenech (married to his brother Luciano back in the day) but you may also recognise him as director of Mountain of the Cannibal God and 2019: After the Fall of New York. The acting is terrible here with Daniel Greene awkwardly shuffling from one scene to the next without an ounce of charisma and sporting a forehead that surely must keep his shoes dry in the rain, there's also a career worst performance from Borgnine. The one exception is, astonishingly enough, the imported Italian salami that is genre stalwart Giuliano Gemma; his English is excellent and he actually plays a compelling villain that really makes the cro-magnon boxer he's up against seem all the more unlikely and unworthy of being his nemesis.

All the boxing genre cliches are ticked; old trainer that dies, fixed fights, professional rivalry, career threatening injury, star-crossed lovers and don't forget the training montage! What makes this one slightly more interesting is the addition of the organized crime element to the storyline and the almost sadistic instances of violence more European in tone than was popular in the USA at the time. The score is ridiculously bombastic and orchestral with a few pop/rock numbers accompanying the training montages in an attempt to (I can only assume) replicate the soundtrack success of the Rocky flicks but here simply make you pee yourself laughing at the unfortunate lyrics.

I'll be honest - I enjoyed this flick! It's cheesy, it's terrible, it's unintentionally hilarious but by god it's entertaining if you like this kind of 80's Z-movie guff!


The Disc:

Full frame transfer, looks like it may be sourced from a VHS due to some softening of the image here and there but it's a pretty good transfer overall. Colours look well saturated and the image is clean and well detailed. There are two audio options available; the Dolby Digital Stereo English track is clear and well balanced, the Dolby Digital Stereo Italian mix sounds a little tinny but then as no English subtitles are provided it's unlikely anyone outside Italy will be listening to it anyway!

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano

DVD Review: Naked Obsession

Naked Obsession (aka Spiando Marina, aka The Smile Of The Fox)

Italy 1992
Director: Sergio Martino
Writers: Sergio Martino, Piero Regnoli
Starring: Deborah Caprioglio, Steve Bond, Sharon Twomey, Leonardo Treviglio, Pedro Loeb, Raffaella Offidani, Raffaele Mottola, Martín Coria, Roberto Ricci.
DVD Released: August 31st 2010
Cert: NR
Running Time: 99 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo English, Dolby Digital Stereo Italian
Subtitles: N/A
Distributor: Mya Communication
Region: 0 NTSC

The Film:

Mark Derrick (Steve Bond) is a US hitman that heads to Argentina on a contract, they need an out-of-towner and expert sniper for this hit. His employers also tell him that he's been hired because they know he will be well motivated given that his target is a member of the drug cartel that caused Derrick so much grief in his former life as a Miami NARC. Cue lots of sweaty sleepless nights as the hitman drinks himself into a stupor and relives the death of his wife and young son over and over. Luckily for him though his employers have set him up in a furnished flat that just happens to share a balcony with uber-slut Marina (Deborah Caprioglio) and it's not long before Derrick has fallen deeply in lust with his big-knockered neighbor to the extent that he starts to follow her all over town for a quick shag in random public places. True lust is never easy though and it soon becomes apparent that Marina is beholden to a dangerous drug lord but what are the chances it's gonna be the same bloke Derrick's been hired to snuff.....

The runaway spaghetti freight train that is the career of Sergio Martino continued into the 90's with this low-rent erotic noir thriller. The story is actually somewhat compellingly told in that things aren't simply spelled out for the audience with certain elements revealed in excellent cheesy little flashbacks that seem to be from another film almost - one about a good cop gone bad and his attempts at redemption. As for the acting; in the 90's when you couldn't get any of the B-list actors you wanted for your thriller you hired Jack Scalia, when you couldn't get Scalia I'm assuming you phoned up Steve Bond. And here he is in all his poor-man's-Scalia, unshaven, alcoholic, buffed abs glory. To be fair he actually isn't all that bad as the horny hitman, he pulls it all off quite admirably given the lines he has to work with, not to mention the massive tits he has to fondle and the pouty faced cheeseball of an 'actress' attached to them. Deborah Caprioglio really only has two things going for her and one of them isn't her acting ability. She is however unintentionally hilarious as Derrick's all singing, all moaning, snake loving, easy laying neighbor; Debbie certainly ain't a shy girl!

It's essentially a two person movie as well, with Bond and Caprioglio pretty much the only substantial characters in the film and Bond spends most of the flick wasted on J&B and staring at the walls of his apartment, there's very little action considering this was set-up as a hitman story. Oh and the bloody awful soundtrack sounds like a bunch of random gameshow themes have been merged together into one unholy symphony of 90's pop pain. My enthusiasm for this one started to wane at around the one hour mark when it became apparent that this hitman just wasn't going to actually 'hit' anyone anytime soon. That said it is a fun little Z-movie thriller if a tad overlong in my admittedly jaded opinion.

The Disc:

Very nice anamorphic transfer, colours look well saturated and the image is crisp, clean and well detailed overall with accurate flesh tones and solid blacks. There are some very minor instances of debris and print damage. The stereo English track is clean and clear with only a couple of noticeable instances of background noise/distortion. The Italian stereo track sounds a little muffled/tinny but then as seems to be the norm for Mya there aren't any English subs included, so it's not like anyone is gonna listen to it!

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano

DVD Review: The Monster and the Ape

The Monster And The Ape

USA 1945
Director: Howard Bretherton
Writers: Royal K. Cole, Sherman L. Lowe
Starring: Robert Lowery, George Macready, Ralph Morgan, Carole Mathews, Willie Best, Jack Ingram, Anthony Warde, Ted Mapes, Eddie Parker, Stanley Price, Bud Osborne, Ray Corrigan, Charles King, Kenneth MacDonald DVD Released: July 27th 2010
Cert: NR
Running Time: 450 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: N/A
Distributor: Cheezy Flicks Entertainment
Region: 0 NTSC

The Film:

An elderly but bright-eyed, white-haired boffin; Professor Franklin Arnold has created The Metalogen Man - a remote-controlled robot with incredible strength. Ultimately the prof intends to mass produce his creation and thus put an end to manual labour and eventually those pesky pinko commie bastards but before he can even get the ball rolling his colleagues are murdered by an ape. Yes, an ape. A huge gorilla named Thor to be more accurate, trained by evil genius Ernst, who wants the robot for his own nefarious purposes and so promptly steals it. It's up to the prof with the help of Ken Morgan (a bloke that represents the company that helped make the robot) and the prof's daughter Babs to get The Metalogen Man back and save the USA from megalomaniacal Ernst!

When I popped this one in my DVD player I thought; 'great, a nice little short 40's b-movie sci-fi'. Turns out it's actually a 15 chapter, seven and a half hour, 40's movie serial, d'oh! If you're a fan of 40's serials then you'll know what to expect here - it's a Flash Gordon, Superman, [insert random hero] in peril, cliffhanging series of stories. Each chapter lasts about 20-30 minutes and they were shown in movie theatres each week in conjunction with a feature film. For pedants this one happens to be the 26th serial released by Columbia Pictures, so they were pretty much in their groove by this point. Each episode features at least one high-octane fist fight, plus a random action scene, kidnapping or the like. In place of a superhero we have to make do with hard-boiled sales rep (er...yeah I think that's what he is basically) Ken Morgan as he faces off week after week against Ernst's 'evil empire' and his army of three thugs and a trained gorilla named Thor.

Let's face it this is the kind of thing Mystery Science Theater 3000 used to take the piss out of, and indeed I kept expecting Mike Nelson and Tom Servo to pop up in the corner and fire snide remarks at the screen. That's not to say it doesn't have a certain charm, it is fun to watch in small doses. Especially entertaining is the dodgy acting, shoddy sets and the obvious rushed takes where everyone flubs their lines and no-one quite seems to know what the fuck they're doing. Also the quaint outdated science and casual racism makes for interesting viewing; with an African/American janitor named Flash (played by genre stalwart Willie Best) that makes Jar Jar Binks look like a spokesman for the NAACP - "them cops done grillt me like a poke chop" is the kind of guff he's likely to spout plus he has a tendency to call the robot a rabbit, mind you everyone else in the movie calls it a robit so what the hell. And it's always a good laugh waiting to see how they will attempt to dispatch Ken in the final moments of each chapter; he's electrocuted, goes over a cliff in his car, rolled into a furnace, blown up, squashed by a boulder, thrown into a fiery pit, squished between moving walls, blown up again, drowned, electrocuted again, involved in a fatal car crash, involved in a fatal plane crash and my personal favourite; shot by a gorilla with a handgun. So given the relatively tight time frame of the whole series it's basically like a 1940's version of 24 only with a slightly more believable plot line.

Oh and the robit's crap, it's got a face like a constipated Grace Jones impersonator.


The Disc:

The transfer actually looks pretty good given it's age. It's somewhat soft and suffers most during the night scenes. Print damage and the like varies from episode to episode with only a couple being noticeably poor quality. The audio suffers from occasional hiss/crackle but not distractingly bad.

Extras are limited to a few trailers for other Cheezy Flicks DVD releases such as similar 1940's movie serials; G-Men Vs The Black Dragon, King Of The Rocketmen and Zombies Of The Stratosphere - please have mercy and don't send them to me to review, thanks! ;^)

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano

42ND STREET MEMORIES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS STREET

Not content with just doing very cool DVD and Blu-Ray extras, High Rising Productions have a new documentary on 42nd Street in production and YOU can be involved!

Director Calum Waddell states:

"42ND STREET MEMORIES focuses on a group of filmmakers, distributors, actors and writers—all of them there and part of The Deuce—speaking about the area at the height of its powers,” Waddell tells Fango. “We have a cast of 20 great names involved, including FANGORIA’s own Tony Timpone; directors Joe Dante and Frank Henenlotter; cult actress Debbie Rochon; adult star and performer Veronica Hart; and producers/distributors such as DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN’s Sam Sherman and DR. BUTCHER’s Terry Levene, the latter giving his first on-camera interview.”

This is where you, the readers of DVD Trash can help -

"We need images and footage,” Waddell says. “So I want to put out an open call to your readers and watchers to help us and pass this message along. We’ve obtained some great clips from various movies and collections, but we want this documentary to be as good and strong as possible. 42ND STREET MEMORIES represents the results of my own investigation into why the street’s legend remains. So if this may be of interest to anyone and you want to help a great documentary be even better, your help would be eternally appreciated. Please spread the word and help us make this, the only documentary done on this landmark street, the final word on the area and its continued appeal! Everyone will be personally credited and thanked in the film for their efforts, and I swear that when 42ND STREET MEMORIES hits the festival circuit, if it’s in your area, I’ll see you get a ticket!”

Sound good?

If you can help in anyway, then email me at Nick@highrisingproductions.com

DVD Review: GOLD: Before Woodstock, Beyond Reality

Gold: Before Woodstock, Beyond Reality (40th Anniversary Edition)


USA 1968
Director: Bob Levis
Writers: Mark Leake
Starring: Del Close, Garry Goodrow, Caroline Parr, Sam Ridge.
DVD Released: July 27th 2010
Cert: NR
Running Time: 90 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: N/A
Distributor: Wild Eye Releasing
Region: 0 NTSC

“Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play Frisbee! I hate goddamn hippies!” -- Eric Cartman

The Film:

Uptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks(Garry Goodrow) doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-style rural community romping about naked, so he zealously enforces various strict laws to ban public nudity. It's up to loopy long-haired rebel Hawk (Del Close) to save the townspeople from Jinks' oppressive reign.

OK so I stole that synopsis from IMDB because frankly I sat through this offbeat, hallucinatory, avant-garde oddity of a film and I couldn't tell you what the hell it was about other than an excuse for a bunch of folks to get really, really high and roll around naked in the mud. I could say the story is existential but that would just be straight lying, there is no story. Some of the actors are in old west costumes, some in 60's army gear, others in zoot suits but ultimately they will all just get naked. 60's counterculture it may be but a watchable movie it ain't. Directed by or rather organized by filmmaker Bob Lewis in 1968 and not given a USA release but eventually released in British theatres in 1972 it has pretty much been relegated to obscurity. The film's main claim to fame are a handful of songs by MC5 (Motor City 5) recorded for it's soundtrack, the last recordings the band would make before splitting up in 1972, making it something of a collectors item/rarity for fans. The film's main star is the father of improvisational comedy Del Close, beloved by his students which included the likes of John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, etc - he also had a hand in the likes of SNL, SCTV and Upright Citizens Brigade so it's a damn shame really that this lame flick is pretty much his biggest starring role in a movie.

The Disc: 

The remastered full screen transfer looks excellent considering it's age and the relative obscurity of the content. The audio again has been remastered and it's a superb track.

Extras include -

A commentary track featuring producer/organizer Bob Levis and actor Garry Goodrow; a friendly chatty bunch of old hippies that have a good time letting us know what went on behind the scenes and just how incredibly high most of the cast and crew were during the shoot, what a shocker.

Another commentary featuring a couple of founding members of the comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts were friends and associates of Del Close and they primarily discuss his life and career here, occasionally stopping to mock the onscreen action.

A 60 minute Bob Levis interview from NYC cable public access TV. Filmed in 2008 this is a surprisingly heavy political discussion between two guys that (admittedly) know what they are talking about but really do seem to think the entire world is watching them in their little audience-free studio as they debate with sledgehammer seriousness issues which are so brain-meltingly tedious that I was ready to give the movie itself another watch just to get away from them.

A 10 minute interview, also filmed recently, with Garry Goodrow, an amiable old fella that has worked with everyone in Hollywood and delights in trashing the likes of Mickey Rooney at every opportunity.

Also included are a few trailers for other Wild Eye Releasing DVDs.


It's not often I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly with a fat little racist cartoon character but I'm with Eric Cartman on this one!

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano

DVD Review: Isle of the Damned

Isle Of The Damned

USA 2008
Director: Mark Colegrove
Writers: Mark Leake
Starring: Larry Gamber, Peter Crates, Jared Books, Oliver Krekel, Jamaal Mahmud, Dustin Edwards.
DVD Released: March 31st 2009
Cert: NR
Running Time: 85 minutes
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo English
Subtitles: N/A
Distributor: Dire Wit Films
Region: 1 NTSC

The Film:


" Forced to flee Italy in exile over the public outrage caused by his film, Pleasures Of The Damned, filmmaker Antonello Giallo sought refuge in the jungles of South America to complete his follow-up picture. As production neared completion on Isle Of The Damned a shipment of the work print was intercepted by Argentinean authorities. Upon review they issued an arrest warrant for Giallo under suspicions of abuse of the native peoples. Furthermore Giallo was ordered to produce the actors of the film in court to prove that they were still alive. Before the trial could begin Antonello Giallo fled the country.

The restorationists of this film are proud to bring you, for the first time ever, Antonello Giallo's original vision, uncut and remastered. "

So goes the text intro to this 2008, cheap-as-chips, shot in someone's backyard, parody of all your favourite jungle cannibal flicks of the 70's and 80's. Mildly treated with some low budget FX to make it look like a grainy lost film from 30 years ago it really doesn't. But then the actors in this flick are wearing 70's comedy moustaches and wigs ala the Beastie Boys' Sabotage video and the entire dialogue track is fake dubbed, with a deep african american voice for the main diminutive white protagonist. So I'd say realism wasn't of paramount concern to these fellas, which is fine with me because despite my usual tendency to run a mile from anything that looks this shoddy I soon found myself laughing along to the childish, foul-mouthed, over the top and sick as fuck antics on display.

The film's plot, what little of it there is, concerns private investigator Jack (Larry Gamber) and his 'ward' Billy (Peter Crates) joining a group of treasure hunters on their way to an unexplored cannibal island in search of the lost gold of Marco Polo. Pretty much as soon as they arrive at their destination the flesh-eating locals have attacked; buggering and killing (not necessarily in that order) most of the crew. Jack and Billy however are saved by a mysterious professor, Alexis (Keith Tveit Langsdorf), and his mute Japanese assassin/manservant Cain (Dustin Edwards) who apparently live in a mansion on the island. With the help of the prof and his servants, Jack sets out to rescue whatever might be left of his crew from the cannibals and perhaps locate that gold if he gets a chance.

The script hits all the relevant cues from the spaghetti cannibal genre and much of the film's enjoyment comes from spotting which particular flick is being referenced at each twisted slash and turn. The most obvious nods are to Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive but you might also pick up homages to Doctor Butcher MD, Zombie Flesh Eaters or any number of similar classics. The gore is turned up to 11 here and mixed together with some almost John Waters inspired shit-eating and basic toilet humour that will either leave you shaking your head in wonderment or secretly thinking; I could have made this. Gut-tearing, foetus-eating, a plethora of anal rapings and even a feast involving iguana semen slathered over monkey meat - you have been warned! But for all it's sophomoric humour I still found it watchable. I guess the basic premise can begin to wear thin over 80 minutes but it all depends on your tolerance for low budget filmmaking and in this case your love of dodgy old cannibal flicks.

The Disc: 

Anamorphic transfer looks fine, keeping in mind it's been fucked about with to make it seem as though it's a lost 16mm relic, the colours are strong, picture a little soft. English 2.0 audio is clean and clear.

Extras include -

A 'fake' commentary track featuring The Insultor (aka the dubbed african/american voice of Jack) who's brought his cousin Clarence along for the ride. Obviously a piss take in itself the duo seem fairly drunk and appear to have no idea what the hell they are watching and after about 45 minutes of cannibalism and anal rape they've had enough and just leave. Don't expect any info on the production here folks!

Paul Joyce's score can be accessed as MP3 files by playing the disc on your PC. And it's a pretty good little 'spoof score' mimicing the jaunty synth-pop numbers that infested these classic uber-violent productions.

Luigi Giallo Interview - a 5 minute 'fake' interview with the son of imaginary director Antonella Giallo. A bit of a recluse and a very emotionally scarred individual due in no small part to his father apparently selling his little boy's arse in order to fund his movie. More puerile stuff here, doesn't mean it's not funny tho!

The Shameless Art Of Self Promotion - a 6 minute featurette following the Dire Wit Films crew at a New Jersey horror film convention.

Trailers for Post Modern, Pleasures Of The Damned and Isle Of The Damned.

And finally a 30 second "Message From Professor Livingstine" in which we are assured that all the cannibalism in the film is in fact genuine and we are told to "Please enjoy the film......even though it's full of real cannibalism".

Review by Giuseppe Rijitano