When I first found this film at my local video store I thought it must have been a retitled version of one of the Lenzi or Deodato cannibal films as I had never heard of it before. After watching it I wish it had been.

There is something almost authentic about the Italian cannibal films, where as this comes across as exactly what it is, a cheapo jungle adventure. The natives in this one ham it up way to much in my opinion.

I have mentioned cannibals a few times already, but there is no actual cannibalism in this film(people are speared and taken by crocodiles), although it is mentioned by some characters in the film, it is however in the same vein as the Italian cannibal films. There is of course plenty of violence against animals and some hilariously badly inserted stock footage(very grainy) of a leopard attacking or being attacked by crocodiles and a snake killing a furry critter of some sort.

Some scenes are OK, such as the scenes set inside a cave, where two of the central characters are held captive, being urinated on while trapped in a cage and being forced on to all fours and ridden around like a horse, but in the main it is badly acted and pretty boring.

The version that I saw looked like it was cut, although I would not think that an uncut version would be all that gory anyway as there doesn't seem to be that much opportunity for extreme violence with the situations that are created.

Only seek this one out if you have to see every cannibal(?) movie ever made.

In the era where Jungle/Cannibal movies are crowned, Indonesia filmmaker didn't waste the potential. The result is Primitive, a monetized thriller that supposed to be scary. The movie is about a group of college student to do some research upon some primitive tribes in the jungle. Unbeknown, they drifts to wrong site of the jungle and met this cannibalistic peoples. And this began the carnage toward them.

Due the budget, there's seem a limitation in creativity and vision. The movie meant to be serious, but unbelievable that there's a lot comedic situation, despite still left some good scare.

Primitive starred by Barry Prima, prior his Film-Silat (Period Action) era. He is very popular in the 80's. Unbelievable (again!) that he ever played a role in this kind of movies (actually, there's also has 'Serigala', a blatant copy of 'Friday The13th'), before he's got exploits in the 80's.

Even though look cheap in every aspects (f/x, gore, costumes, setting, etch), actually this movie is still an enjoyable flick. Watch this if you have chance, and you will believe everything I've said.

6/10

Three anthropology students, Robert, Rita and Tommy, venture into the uncharted regions of the Indonesian rain-forest where they are attacked, captured and tortured by a tribe of primitives.

My search for the most obscure of cannibal flicks continues, taking me deep into Indonesian exploitation territory with this trashy jungle adventure/survival horror from director Sisworo Gautama Putra. Although, strictly speaking, this doesn't really qualify as a cannibal film since no-one actually gets eaten, the movie is clearly modelled after the Italian cannibal 'classics' of the 1970s and serves up scene after scene that will seem all too familiar to fans of the genre.

During the course of the film, the captive students are stripped, humiliated and taunted, someone is impaled on a jungle booby trap, a woman gives birth in the jungle and has her newborn baby licked clean by children, a native is emasculated with a rock, and an assortment of animals are torn apart and eaten while still alive. However, with the exception of the sickening real-life animal cruelty, the film fails to match most of its Italian counterparts in terms of genuinely disturbing sequences, with a notable lack of graphic gore and gratuitous nudity (despite being grabbed, groped and almost raped, buxom Rita somehow remains clothed throughout).

Unintentional laughs, on the other hand, are never in short supply: the incongruous opening music is Kraftwerk's electronic classic 'The Robots'(!?!?!); Robert's distress at being ridden like a horse by the tribes-folk is absolutely hilarious; the 'language' spoken by the natives consists of comical grunts, shrieks and 'Ooooh's; a ridiculous rubber snake attack sees the victim being hoisted right up into a tree; an axe is thrown, only to return like a boomerang and strike down its owner; and a raft is constructed by the exhausted students in the space of thirty seconds.