One of his early fiction films and the first of the jungle nightmare productions. Kinski is riveting and completely dominates. His depiction of madness...the type that can at any moment break out into violence...is so completely convincing we wonder if he is acting.
The sequence at the end with KK standing crookedly on the raft which is floating lazily in the muddy water, surrounded by the dead, including his daughter who lies propped with an arrow sticking out of her chest, tormented by 40 or 50 small monkeys who scamper about trying to avoid the water and the madman is one of the greatest closing images in world film history.
Unforgettable.
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