JUNGLE HOLOCAUST (1977) - Another good Italian Cannibal film set in Mindanao, Philippines and based on what was once considered a true account of a Westerners (name Harper) find of the stone age Tsay Day tribe. This is actually kinda of a haunting story with the jungle and cannibals. Lots of gore and insanity that only this genre of film can produce. Note that I read a few years ago that the story was faked and the the lost tribe was paid to act like that for some Westeners hoax, but I'm not sure of all the details of that report.
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It's even more complex a story than that -- The Tasaday were/are an actual tribe, but the controversy started when it was put forth that they were an actual stone-age tribe with no prior contact with Western civilization. This seemed to have begun when they showed an anthropologist stone implements of their ancestors, who the Tasaday considered to be living, ongoing tribal members -- ie. death is not a separation in Tasaday culture -- and the anthropologist ran with the idea that these were what they used every day. Never mind that there were tribal members in T-shirts(!) around, indicating a seemingly obvious ongoing contact with the civilized Phillippines. It's a case of someone believing what they wanted to in the face of all evidence. When the Tasaday saw what a fuss was being made over them, they "cooperated" by behaving how they thought the ones giving them all the welcome attention wanted them to behave -- it wasn't so much a case of intentional fraud on their part. It's a case of an event getting out of hand and taking on a life of its own.
peter johnson/denny crane
I was reading that in new guinea I think, the cannibals or tribes like that speak something like 15 percent of the worlds languages. They have like a knack for languages for some reason
Thanks, Peter Johnson for the insightful information of the lost tribe.
Lester they do speak many dialects in South East Asia. I think the Philippines themselves have 80 dialects and 8,000 islands. Not to mention Indonesia and Malaysia have similiar language patterns
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