Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death means of consciousness raising groups. The film ends happily for the trio of main characters: Bunny and Jim are to be married, and Jean-Pierre has enrolled at Dr. Hunt's university as a feminist studies major, becoming in the process the ideal companion for Hunt. The film's plot loosely parallels that of novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, as well as "Apocalypse Now", which was also partly based on "Heart of Darkness". Both "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now" feature a character named Kurtz who has gone deep into the jungle to become the deranged leader of a group of
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) worshipped as a god by his underlings; in Caesar's case, his followers believe him to be the reincarnation of Mars, the Roman god of war. The video game "" (2012), another modernized loose adaptation of "Heart of Darkness" (set in a ruined Dubai), has a similar Kurtz figure named Colonel John Konrad. Timothy Findley's novel "Headhunter" (1993) features Kurtz's escape from "Heart of Darkness" and subsequent reign of terror over the city of Toronto as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Parkin Institute. The poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot starts off with the line "Mistah Kurtz - He Dead." In