Last Cannibal World (1977) on Netflix
A charter plane carrying oil prospectors Robert Harper and Rolf lands at an outpost in the Mindanao jungle and is damaged. The prospecting camp they came to visit is abandoned.
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Plot summary
Robert Harper and Rolf, oil prospectors, fly to a jungle outpost on Mindanao, and the rough landing damages their charter plane. The prospecting camp they came to visit stands empty. On a trek that leaves them lost, Robert and Rolf find a rotting corpse and conclude that natives massacred the prospectors. Once they regain the airstrip, darkness keeps the plane on the ground, so Robert, Rolf, the pilot Charlie and Swan wait aboard. When Swan steps out into the bushes and is seized by unseen natives, the men hear her screams but stay put, resolving to search for her at first light.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Last Cannibal World (1977)
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- The film was never prosecuted for obscenity in the UK, but it was seized and confiscated there under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic.
- Britain censored the film on its initial theatrical release with nearly four minutes of cuts, mainly to scenes of animal cruelty; when it was finally allowed on DVD in 2003, nearly three more minutes still had to go.
- Australia banned the film outright before allowing it on VHS only with heavy cuts to remove what was described as "indecent violence."
