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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: The drop-dead gorgeous Ursula Andress leads a search party
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: 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: Complete version of a B-movie classic..
Review: Let me start off by saying that I first saw this film many, many years ago. As a kid, I was blessed to have access to a tv station that held weekly horror and b-movie marathons, presenting many controversial films such as this one uncut and uncensored. So it was with fond memories that I sat down to watch this DVD that once again Anchor Bay has done a fine job with.
This film has been circulating with many different titles containing many different edits for several years known alternatively as Prisoner of the Cannibal God, Slave of the Cannibal God and Mountain of the Cannibal God. For hardcore cinephiles be advised that this is the most complete print containing many shocking scenes that were previously excised. This print is a full four minutes longer than the Slave of the Cannibal God print.
Now onto the film itself, I must agree with the majority of viewers in that I find the animal cruelty despicable and reprehensible, however even the most casual viewer of italian cannibal films knows that this is an unfortunate staple of these films starting with Umberto Lenzi's and Ruggero Deodato's epic cannibal films. Once you get past the horrible animal scenes in this film, you are left with a nicely crafted and reasonably well acted film that benefits greatly from the wonderful cinematography and exotic locales of Sri Lanka.
Though slow at times, the characters are interesting especially Andress and Keach, there is a good deal of action and intrigue and the gore and nudity is plentiful, though not as graphic as the softcore cannibal film Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals. This film is certainly more enjoyable and watchable than bottom of the barrel trash like Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive.
The plot is simple enough: A beautiful young woman is escorted through the jungles to search for her missing and presumed dead husband, instead the search party encounters a vicious cannibal clan long thought to be extinct.
Again, I must reiterate that these films are an acquired taste but for someone looking for a good, gory and somewhat sleazy b-movie this just might fit the bill.
Anchor Bay presents this film letterboxed with theatrical trailer, photo gallery and a documentary with the director reminiscing about his film and its stars.
Rating:
Summary: Complete version of a B-movie classic..
Review: Let me start off by saying that I first saw this film many, many years ago. As a kid, I was blessed to have access to a tv station that held weekly horror and b-movie marathons, presenting many controversial films such as this one uncut and uncensored. So it was with fond memories that I sat down to watch this DVD that once again Anchor Bay has done a fine job with.
This film has been circulating with many different titles containing many different edits for several years known alternatively as Prisoner of the Cannibal God, Slave of the Cannibal God and Mountain of the Cannibal God. For hardcore cinephiles be advised that this is the most complete print containing many shocking scenes that were previously excised. This print is a full four minutes longer than the Slave of the Cannibal God print.
Now onto the film itself, I must agree with the majority of viewers in that I find the animal cruelty despicable and reprehensible, however even the most casual viewer of italian cannibal films knows that this is an unfortunate staple of these films starting with Umberto Lenzi's and Ruggero Deodato's epic cannibal films. Once you get past the horrible animal scenes in this film, you are left with a nicely crafted and reasonably well acted film that benefits greatly from the wonderful cinematography and exotic locales of Sri Lanka.
Though slow at times, the characters are interesting especially Andress and Keach, there is a good deal of action and intrigue and the gore and nudity is plentiful, though not as graphic as the softcore cannibal film Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals. This film is certainly more enjoyable and watchable than bottom of the barrel trash like Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive.
The plot is simple enough: A beautiful young woman is escorted through the jungles to search for her missing and presumed dead husband, instead the search party encounters a vicious cannibal clan long thought to be extinct.
Again, I must reiterate that these films are an acquired taste but for someone looking for a good, gory and somewhat sleazy b-movie this just might fit the bill.
Anchor Bay presents this film letterboxed with theatrical trailer, photo gallery and a documentary with the director reminiscing about his film and its stars.
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Summary: The cannibal genre exposed!
Review: Mountain of the Cannibal God, is basic, exploitation/sexploitation cannibal fare. It is an interesting story of sexy Ursula Andress, looking for her lost husband, and a trip she takes into the Amazon to find him, and the Uranium he was originally looking for. The safari party is eventually captured on the mountain (more like a cavern) by said cannibals, and Ursula is turned into a goddess, while the cannibals feast on human and reptile flesh. In this uncut version, there is a scene of sexual depravity on the first night of Ursula's capture that must be seen to be believed. First, Ursula is stripped, tied up, and sensuously painted by two native girls. Then we cut to a scene of a woman mastrubating while a native rapes a pig? Okay, I didnt write this stuff, I am only reviewing the film. Not exactly my cup of tea, I would have rather seen a love scene between Ursula and the male lead, but thats just me. Still, with a title like MOTCG, one cannot expect the memoirs of Emily Post.
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Summary: Cannibal feast
Review: Ok, I get started. I saw the last 10 minutes of this flick on my local Tv and when I saw the lead girl I thought wow she's a beauty. She was getting stripped and painted with blood to prepare her to be the cannibals godness and to sent her to her dead husband who she was looking. When I saw that the flick was avaliable on Dvd I immediatly ordered.It has a good and reasonable prize and was full of extras and contains the restored version of the film uncut and uncensored. Susan Stevenson(Andress) fly to New Guinea to find her missing husband who were on a expedition to find a sacred mountain full of cannibals and uranium. The British consulate refuses helping her because of political issues,they led to a mysterious man Dr Edward Foster(a young Stacy Keach) a colleague of her husband and former expiditioner. She convinces him to help her and organizes a expedition to find her husband. When there they are attacked by animals,traps and loose all their men until they met Manolo and saves Susan from a cannibal. In a helpful village they rested until another cannibal and former expeditioner kills a native girl and hurts Edward on his knee. Instead of this flaw he decides to go further after the villagers expulse them from the village. In the climb in the waterfalls Arthur doesn't help Edward and he feels down and dies. When Manolo knows the true intentions of the mission they are captured by the cannibals. The cannibals kills Arthur and eat all his flesh and keep Manolo tied up. Finally they escaped via the river. The flick contains graphic violence and sex equally given.
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Summary: OK Italian Cannibal feast
Review: Sergio Martino always delivers with his films. From the fast-paced action in After the Fall of New York to the mystery and shocking horror in Screamers. This film is no exception. It blends right in with Trap Them and Kill Them and Cannibal Ferox, yet another cheap but watchable Italian cannibal film. Lots of cheap gore, animal cruelty, and native exploitation, the usual fare. Aside from the awesome cast (Claudio Cassinelli, Ursula Andress, Antonio Marsina, and even STACEY KEACH!) this film has little to distinguish itself from the crop. I'd see Cannibal Holocaust instead. Keach's final scene is kinda funny in a way though, as is the ending which was completely ripped off by John Boorman's The Emerald Forest. If you've seen the cannibal "classics" such as Holocaust and Ferox, go ahead and give this one a whirl. It wont disappoint you, but wont really excite you either.
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Summary: Good for the novice
Review: Sergio Martino's "Slave of the Cannibal God" is this director's entry in what ranks as one of the most fascinating horror sub-genres to ever grace the screen: the Italian cannibal craze. Starting in the early 1970s and peaking towards the end of the decade, a slew of depraved, ultragory shockers emerged from the minds of such Italian filmmakers as Ruggero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi. "Cannibal Holocaust," Deodato's grindhouse shocker and a film still considered to be one of the sickest ever made, marked the apogee of the cannibal film, but other directors continued to churn out more product. I could, and probably am, wrong in saying this, but by the time Umberto Lenzi released "Eaten Alive" in 1980, the cannibal genre was declining. Watching these films proves one immutable truth about the 1970s: this decade truly was a time when filmmakers would try anything to shake audiences up. It's impossible to even conceive of a film like this being made today unless you take into consideration the plethora of super cheap shot on video junk, which I don't. These are films shot on film, and they are definitely something to see. If you like horror pictures, be sure to check a few of these gutmunchers out. Especially since most of them have gone to DVD in the past couple of years.
Martino's film stars Ursula Andress (!) as Susan Stevenson, the wife of an intrepid explorer who went in search of a tribe of cannibals and never returned. Stevenson, concerned for the safety of her husband, begins to organize a search party. She hires Doctor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach!) to guide the expedition into the jungles of New Guinea. Susan brings along her shady brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina) to help in the search, and the group sets off with the requisite number of local guides. What follows is, sadly, a rather boring series of scenes consisting of the group endlessly tramping their way through the foliage. In true cannibal movie fashion, we do get to see several scenes of real life animal death spliced into the film stock, but we must wait awhile to see the human characters perish under nasty circumstances. Between the snake attacks on monkeys and other such useless rubbish, Foster and Stevenson stumble over a village in the interior where the group meets a European priest running a mission, and learns about a dangerous tribe of cannibals called the Puka or Puki. Keach has a run in with a couple of these guys, so the party heads back into the jungle for another interminable jaunt until they arrive at the cannibal mountain.
Stevenson gets what she wants when her expedition runs smack dab into a tribe of masked cannibals atop this mountain. We see that her husband is here too, although he's quite dead and covered in some sort of weird jelly substance. It turns out that the tribe worships this corpse as a deity, probably due to the fact that he carried a Geiger counter when he stumbled over the cannibals. This tribe is so impressed with the machine that they mounted it in his chest, where it still clicks and clacks away all these months later. Since Susan's hubby carried a picture of her in his wallet, the cannibals think she's a god too. They strip her clothes off and tie her up just as they did her husband. Finally, we see a bit of the violence that are these films' stock and trade: one of the tribal members attempts to have his way with Goddess Ursula and pays an extreme price for his insolence. A dwarf has his brains dashed out on a rock, the cannibals sit around for some good old-fashioned eating, and startling revelations about Stevenson's reasons for coming to the mountain emerge before the film glides to a watery end.
"Slave of the Cannibal God" is bound to disappoint hardcore followers of the cannibal sub-genre due simply to the fact that Martino restrained himself in the gore department. If you've seen "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Eaten Alive," you won't believe how tame this film is by comparison. Nothing much happens except for animal violence and the flurry of activity at the end. Sure, we see a couple of native guys buy the farm during a leg of the trek, and dinnertime at the mountain took on decidedly queasy dimensions, but it's not enough to keep us gorehounds interested. I suspect with a cast including Andress and Keach, Martino felt he should throttle back on the extreme gore. Too bad and too sad. I did take pleasure in seeing Ursula bare her heart and soul in preparation for her deification ceremony, and I enjoyed seeing Keach turn in a solid performance. I also liked the beautiful shots of the jungle and that waterfall the expedition had to climb to get to the cannibal lair. "Slave of the Cannibal God" succeeded in one central element common to this sub-genre, namely that Europeans in the jungle are only there to engage in evil acts. I thought Martino pulled off this plot point--revealed in full at the end--quite nicely. But I must doggedly return to the central premise of an Italian cannibal picture: it should contain over the top gore, and Martino's effort failed in that area big time.
Surprisingly, the DVD edition of the film contained a thirteen-minute interview with Sergio Martino. The other extra was a poster and stills gallery. Picture and audio quality were sharp for a film this old. Ultimately, I must recommend that "Slave of the Cannibal God" is a film best suited for newcomers who wish to understand the general themes involved in these movies. Then move on to Deodato's and Lenzi's pukers. Since I already saw "Cannibal Holocaust," "Cannibal Ferox," and "Eaten Alive" before Martino's effort, this film left me wanting more.
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