Il paese del sesso selvaggio (English: The Country of Savage Sex), also known as Man From Deep River, Deep River Savages and Sacrifice!,[1][2] is a 1972 Italian cannibal exploitation film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai and Pratitsak Singhara.

Like Man from Deep River, Mondo films often focus on exotic customs and locations, graphic violence, and animal cruelty.

When a helicopter flies overhead, and John attempts to be rescued, he is subdued by warriors who nearly kill him, but Marayå intervenes.

The two consummate, resulting in her eventual pregnancy, but a black butterfly flies over the two lovers during conception, portending doom.

When he returns, Marayå has fallen ill from the pregnancy and is blind, so he decides to take her back to civilization for modern medicinal treatment.

Other than being the first cannibal film, Man from Deep River is also notorious for several scenes of extreme violence and gore, which is standard for the genre.

Though several scenes of torture and cruelty are present, its inclusion of several on-screen slayings of animals has tended to land the film in hot water with censors all over the world.

In 1984, the Video Recordings Act was instated by the British Government, and Deep River Savages was banned from the UK in its entirety (largely due to the real animal killings).

[11] Despite the controversy surrounding the film's UK release, Man from Deep River was passed with a simple R rating by the MPAA in the United States.