YMMV / Savage Man, Savage Beast

• Awesome Music: If there's one point in the film's favour, it's Carlo Savina's beautiful score.
• Heartwarming Moments: The finale with Erik Zimen and his beloved wolves. While some may find it inadequate to wash away the nasty taste of what came before it, it's still nice to see an instance of humanity and nature coexisting peacefully for once.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The death of Pit Dernitz. Faked or not, it's still horrifying to watch a man being viciously attacked and Eaten Alive by lions, all while his family is Forced to Watch.
  • Likewise, the murder of the Amazonian tribesman. Even if you know it's a fabrication, the fact remains that you're still watching a man being hunted down and brutally slaughtered in graphic detail. The grainy film stock doesn't help.
• Signature Scene: The lion attack and the murder of the indigenous man by mercenaries.
• Special Effects Failure: Even a first-year film student could spot the fabricated footage from half a mile away. In more detail:
  • The lion attack on Pit Dernitz has so many inconsistencies, especially in terms of editing, that it's a miracle anyone could be fooled into thinking that any of it was real. In addition, it's very obvious at times that the lions are chowing down on a dummy covered in raw meat, especially with how they manage to keep their faces suspiciously clean through the whole process.
  • The castration of the indigenous man looks horribly fake, with the man neither bleeding out nor even really reacting to having his genitals sheared off. It's quite clearly a prosthetic penis being severed.
  • The fabrication of the anti-hunting demonstration on the Isle of Wight is made blatantly apparent by the appearance of a well-known pornographic actress in the crowd.
• Values Dissonance: The narration occasionally includes snobbish and at times downright racist remarks directed at members of so-called "primitive" societies. The most blatant of these occurs when the narrator outright compares the aforementioned indigenous man to a "monkey without fur."

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