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Summary: Cheesy, low-budget Italian shock cinema goodness!
Review: After watching other classics such as Umberto Lenzi's "Cannibal Ferox" and Ruggero Deodato's "Jungle Holocaust", I decided to give this little flick a try and I've got to admit that I wasn't disappointed whatsoever! Sergio Martino's "Mountain of the Cannibal God" (AKA "Slave of the Cannibal God") is one of the best cannibal films ever made, despite the so-so acting and some weak dialogue thrown in here and there. It stars Ursula Andress (Who was also the very first Bond girl in "Dr. No" back in 1962) as beautiful Susan, who heads to New Guinea with her brother, Arthur (Antonio Marsina) in search of her husband who has been missing for three months.
With the help of anthropologist, Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach) and explorer, Monolo (Claudio Cassinelli) they venture to the island of Roka, which is also the home to the Ra Ra Me. (TRANSLATION: Mountain of the Cannibal God) What they discover is the terrifying Puka, a cannibal tribe believed to have been extinct for many years. Along the way, they fall prey to all the dangerous booby-traps and cannibals lurking in the jungle in some of the most grotesque and shocking footage ever caught on film! (Who can forget the ambush and instant decapitation scene?) But when Susan and Monolo are captured by the Puka their only hope is escape, or risk becoming a sacrifice to the Cannibal God!
In my opinion, this is a VERY underrated Italian horror film and deserves more credit than what it is given. As I stated earlier, the acting is about average and the dialogue can drag here and there, but fans of the genre and gore buffs alike will definately get a kick out of the gory makeup and effects! However, as I also mentioned in my review for "Cannibal Ferox" this is absolutely NOT a movie for the faint of heart or those who are easily offended by such material! In addition, you'll also need a strong stomach to watch the whole movie and small children (Heaven forbid) should not view this film, or they may be forever traumatized! Everyone else: EAT UP! :)
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Summary: Bottom of the Barrell!
Review: A very boring jungle/cannibal movie where Ursula Andress hires Stacey Keach to guide her through the jungle to find her missing husband. We're treated to decapitations and crocodile attacks, etc. but this fakery can be fun in weird kind of way. What I cannot stand is the VERY REAL animal cruelty. The live Iguana being ripped open and its insides taken out while it's still kicking was totally unnecessary even if it IS some kind of demented ritual for dumb savages, and the baby monkey being eaten alive by a huge python was heartbreaking. The look of total dismay and helplessness on the little guys face as he seemed to know his end was near was just too much. I know that really happens in the wilds of the jungle but what kind of sick jerk would want to watch it once, let alone over and over again. The only good point (actually two points) in the whole movie is Ursula Andress naked, but basically it is a stupid and boring movie for stupid, boring individuals. If you know anyone who owns and crows about this movie, label him "JERK" and drop him from your Christmas list. One for the mentally retarded! AWFUL!!
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Summary: Well-made and enjoyable cannibal hokum.
Review: All you animal-loving losers ought to get some real worries to concern yourselves with. If you knew anything about the cannibal sub-genre of horror films, you'd recognize Mountain of the Cannibal God as a much more palatable and enjoyable example of this kind of fare when compared to the entries by such directors as Deodato and Lenzi. (Of course, you probably don't even know who they are.) And by the way, labelling it a "boring and stupid movie for boring and stupid individuals" is hardly a critical assessment. Reiterating it twice is simply pathetic. So go donate some money to crackpot organizations like PETA, chow down on a vegan burger or a big, heaping plate of soybean bacon, and leave the negative reviews to informed viewers who know what the hell they're talking about. What's the big deal about filming the animals fighting to the death? One can see that kind of thing on the science and nature channels any given day of the week. And as for the iguana--well, it's not like it has a soul or anything, right? Or are you all a bunch of tree-huggers as well? In fact, you've just prompted me to place an order for this DVD. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Summary: Standard Cannibal Fare
Review: Average cannibal film. Great extras, fantastic price. Get it if you're into Italian cannibal films. Not as good as 'Ferox' or 'Holocaust', but well worth a look. Another thing -- everyone that's crying about the animal violence should grow-up and get a life. If you've seen this or other cannibal-themed films, you knew well before about the scenes with animals. Why don't you quit posting your PETA propaganda and find some leather jackets to slash.
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Summary: Great Flick
Review: Good for the money...No animals were hurt,Just a movie..I hate PETA..A bunch of little men and homely women!
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Summary: not what you might be expecting
Review: I bought this movie expecting a pleasantly awful B-movie. This movie was not anything like that, and was extremely disturbing. (this review discusses both the plot and the animal cruelty, so stay tuned for both) To start, a bimbo and a guy go into the jungle to find somebody. They have a crew of natives with them, and meet up with two other guys who look just like the first, that is, they seem to be three instances of Stacy Keach with different hairstyles. The bimbo wears high-heeled fashion boots throughout the whole traipsing-through-the-jungle adventure. So far, so good. The opening credits feature lots of reptiles, either doing their best to look scary, or fighting or eating each other. Nature show stock footage type stuff. But then it gets extremely disturbing. I am not one to be grossed out by much; the reticulated python eating a monkey was not, to me, all that bad. Kinda sick, but understandable. Snakes do eat whatever small animals they can catch. But what really, honestly, disturbed me was the scene where a live lizard, probably an iguana, was stabbed, ripped open, its blood poured on the hands of the crew (it's a ritual, see), and then the iguana's skin ripped off and organs removed. THIS WAS NOT A FAKE IGUANA. It was wriggling and kicking as its body was being emptied of blood. I'm not an animal activist by any means, nor am I easily grossed out (quite the opposite!), but this was just too much. Throughout the movie, animals are impaled alive or encouraged to fight, with pretty much no relation to the plot. But, on with the movie: The bimbo and the Stacy Keach triplets make their way through the jungle, and the crew get killed off one by one (booby traps, axe-wielding masked men) and eventually the remaining characters are captured. The cannibals show the bimbo her dead husband, who is tied up, rotting, to a framework. He has a geiger counter embedded in his abdomen, and is covered in some sort of orange goo. The chief cannibal rubs the radioactive husband-juice on himself and on the bimbo. The bimbo is tied up naked and radioactive husband-juice slathered all over her, and this two-minute scene is the closest you get to a sex scene in the whole movie. If you just want to see Ursula Andress naked, watch this scene only (and pretend it's something other than radioactive husband-juice). The cannibals eat a stew of human flesh and greensnakes, and the bimbo and the one remaining Stacy Keach-alike escape. The End. I'm sorry to say that this movie had no real qualities of a good movie (interesting characters, compelling plot) nor of a bad movie ("special" effects, fake scenery, laughable plot elements or lack thereof) and really has nothing to recommend it unless you have a truly (messed)-up desire to see animals tortured. I'm trying to think of something good to say, and the best I can come up with is that many of the reviewers seem to think Ursula Andress (the bimbo) is hot. And really, that's about it.
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Summary: slave of Cannibal God rules...
Review: I received two copies of this movie as a gift. I actually debated on parting with one of them, I liked it so much. This movie on DVD is wild. Lots of thrills, twists, & turns, but most of all a very nude Ursula Andress is breath taking. I do not mean that in a demeaning way, rather, she is shear beauty to behold. The story alone warrants viewing this, but if nothing more, Ursula will hold your intersts as well.
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Summary: STOP! - extreme animal cruelty!
Review: I was very disturbed by the animal cruelty in this movie. There are numerous scenes in which animals are placed in scenes together and filmed while they fight to the death. The most disturbing is early in the film when a monkey is being filmed while it is being eaten alive by a snake. I threw my copy of this movie away and suggest you do the same. I'm all for horror movies but not at this expense.
Rating:
Summary: STOP! - extreme animal cruelty!
Review: I was very disturbed by the animal cruelty in this movie. There are numerous scenes in which animals are placed in scenes together and filmed while they fight to the death. The most disturbing is early in the film when a monkey is being filmed while it is being eaten alive by a snake. I threw my copy of this movie away and suggest you do the same. I'm all for horror movies but not at this expense.
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Summary: Real animal torture and death - sicko
Review: Just a word of warning; There is some pretty severe animal torture and death in the film. One scene where they rip a live iguana open, and another closeup of the face of a monkey slowly dying in the jaws of a croc - it was on-and-on and that's where I turned it off.
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