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Brutes and Savages is a typical entry in the bizarre subgenre of mondo films. In it, narrator and explorer Arthur Davis visits Africa and South America in search of weird ceremonies and cultures. The film is basically trying to educate the viewer with a “partial” look at the locals’ everyday activities and beliefs and it tries to make everything look authentic and real. It clearly isn’t. Numerous camera angles and ridiculously staged events kill the illusion early on.

So what do we get? An African hand-to-hand combat, a turtle wedding ceremony, a llama festival, simulated bestiality, snake vs. rodent, snake vs. bird, crocodile vs. man, crocodile vs. jaguar (!), an erotic pottery museum, various animal sacrifices and much more. It’s a mixed bag of sleaze and violence.

The breathtaking scenery is well filmed for the most part and the visit to the village slums is appropriately saddening, but the rest of the “money shots” just look incredibly staged. …

Can I recommend all this? Surprisingly yes. Although faked and drenched in animal blood, these are supposed to be representations of actual ceremonies from these two continents and for that, it was fascinating.

Brutes.and.Savages.1978.Uncut.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 47mn
Size:	1.70 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	632x428 ~> 632x474
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	2 043 kb/s
Audio
English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/

https://nitro.download/view/87CCD1AFA14FB15/Brutes.and.Savages.1978.Uncut.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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