A professor unearths chilling footage of a lost film crew's demise among Amazonian cannibal tribes.
Bleak and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on AMC+, Kanopy (free) and Plex (free).
It stays inside its NC-17, with intense fear and a jolt or two.
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A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
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