Savage Man Savage Beast

Guys let's not get carried away here! There are no human death scenes in this, or any Faces of Death for that matter. It's all staged, and all psychological.

They show you a dead body in a morgue,or real animals getting brutally killed. Then show you a guy getting shot by executioners (not in this film,in one of the Faces of Death and I'm just using as an example only),a guy hit by a train, or a guy mauled by lions. Because you saw the real dead body you think every thing else is real. People see these films usually very young, and grow up believing they are real. They are not. There is no debate as others here have stated.

However if you have never seen one of these film, think very long and hard about how much you really do. Even though the human deaths are fake these films are still very unsettling, and you can not unwatch it. It will be with you for the rest of your life, and you will be affected by them.

Mateo is a hunter in Patagonia. He does not want to destroy the balance of nature, he just wants to hunt a stag so he can survive. This film, almost like a documentary, is a story of hunting: some oppose violence to animals, others say it is a part of nature to kill.

Directed and written by Antonio Climati and Mario Morra, who would go on to make more documentaries -- "This Violent World" and "Sweet and Savage", as well as having independent careers as a cinematographer and editor, respectively.

Scenes show hippies in Cape Cod, rallying for animal rights... including a woman who breast-feeds a goat. Plenty of nudity, both male and female. Also, aborigines spearing kangaroos and using boomerangs on bats.

There is also plenty of footage of animals hunting other animals: anaconda, monkeys, jaguar. But the main point seems to be the variety of ways that man hunts animals for food, sport or otherwise.

What I like in this doco is a volume of realistic data rarely seen somewhere else.

DVD I own accomplishes 88 min of 94 minutes a full version presents, and some film scenes are really cut short with censoring in "a free speech world", leaving more to viewer's imagination than it was probably supposed by producers themselves.

With knowledge of a subject and respect, a natural beauty of hunters' bodies have been depicted while broadening viewers' knowledge of a rough reality of a world existing in different time/space dimensions on the Earth simultaneously to civilised digitally-equipped one, by screening a variety of traditional indigenous African rituals, much more logical and cognitive with environment than outdoor copulating of the educated Westerners during youth gatherings.

A scene of annihilating "primitives" of Amazon is uselessly censored perhaps as shoving a member cut off might really emphasised a notion of this work, which is, as understood, convincing in "devil beneath" that is in killing ground of a human nature although lacquered upon the history with challenging laws and orders but well preserved and easily demonstrated on demand of circumstances requiring.

A must to have on a shelf.

SAVAGE MAN SAVAGE BEAST is yet another mondo death porn film from the "golden age" of such films. Once again, a narrator drones on as animals are killed in various ways in various parts of the world.

A monkey is crushed by a python. Aborigines hunt kangaroos with spears and boomerangs. Natives kill elephants and water buffalo. A British foxhunt is shown. Indeed, animals of all kinds are slaughtered by land, sea, and air.

Tribal rituals such as "Earth impregnation" and cannibalism are also examined.

The naked hippies are a hoot with their free-loving animal husbandry and drug-addled protest. We're treated to these fuzzy folks as they breastfeed lambs and give a whole new meaning to "outside restroom".

"Documentaries" like this hold a strange fascination for a certain audience. Pretty much for the same reason that we've historically gawked at accidents or carnival freak shows.

If you enjoy shock films from yesteryear, then you'll probably love this one...

This is the stuff Dave Attenborough doesn't show on a Sunday night and dreams are made of. This Film has it all, from an elephant speared multiple times,the only footage i've ever seen of a man being mauled by a lion (one of many highlights),a tribe that have intercourse with the ground (its not virgin soil anymore). The narration is funny as well. Seriously you need this in your life so many animal deaths an under appreciated classic.You can get this and 19 other Grind-house films for £13 this film alone is worth that. Animals were harmed in the making of this film and it is all the better for it 10/10. Oh and a member of a fox hunt takes a Pooh