morrison-dylan-fan Being left extremely impressed by Umberto Lenzi's surprisingly elegant Man From Deep River and Ruggero Deodato's " rough'N' ready" Jungle Holocaust,I decided that I should finally go on a journey to the wild Italian jungle with a director whose work I have always been keen in taking a look at. The plot:Feeling uneasy over not hearing a single word from her husband Henry, since he left to do an expedition in a remote jungle based in New Guinea.Susan Stevenson decides that she has had enough of waiting by the phone,and is instead going to New Guinea in an attempt to find out what has been keep Henry so busy.Not wanting his sister to visit a possibly dangerous place on her own,Susan's brother Arthur decides to come along so that he can watch her back and protect her if any situation arises.Shortly after getting off the plane,Susan and Arthur enlist the help of mutual friend Dr.Edward Foster to guide them through the jungle which Susan suspects contains her husband.Talking to the local residents who live near by the jungle,the group are terrified to discover, that the residents have made it a rule that no one is allowed to enter the jungle of "Ra Ra Me",due to there being a legendary myth about the mountain surrounded by the jungle being cursed.View on the film:Unlike the rough,industrial documentary moments in Deodato's Jungle Holocaust and the impressively well chosen moments of calm in Lenzi's landmark Italian Cannibal film Man From Deep River,Co-writer (along with Cseare Frugoni) /director Sergio Martino gives the film an appearance which strongly looks back towards the Tarzan movies of the 1930's.Wanting to show off the films stunning New Guinea location,Martino uses a number of wide angles that along with allowing him to show all of the environment that the group are finding themselves up against,also allows him to give an equal amount of focus to the actors and the fantastic location that they are surrounded by.Despite being all shot on location,the last 30 minutes or so of the film set in a New Guinea mountain cave feel disappointingly "stagey",due to the location oddly not crating any atmospheric sense of "danger",and the residents of the cave being weird (a scene involving someone getting a little too friendly with a pig being a particularly strange moment!) but not being that frightening.Watching the bonus interview for this very enjoyable film on the Blue Underground DVD,I was surprised to see Sergio Martino being openly shown as lying about not knowing that the scenes of animal torture in the movie were not going to take place.Although the animal killing scenes are on the nasty side,Martino smartly goes for a much more matter of fact directing style of the scenes,and thankfully avoids the feeling of the scenes just being there to make the viewers jump out of their seats.Although I have not seen Dr No in a number of years,I feel that the great performance by Ursula Anderss (whose beautiful curves are put on full display for the films final) really helps to hold the film together,thanks to Andress showing Susan to be someone who is prepared to run straight into a paternally deadly situation,but is also someone who (most of the time) knows when to use her intelligence's and instincts to avoid the deadly traps that lay before her.For the excellent screenplay of the film,Martino and Frugoni initially make the film look like its going to be a fun Jungle adventure,until around the half way point.Where,Martino and Frugoni cleverly allow the gangs dark internal motives to slowly rise to the suffice,and make each of the characters look far from the innocents that they may have originally appeared.

Horrorible_Horror_Films First off, if you are an animal rights activist, vegetarian, vegan, member of PETA or anything like that, then you'll want to stay very far away from this and any movie made by Italian directors in the 70s with the world 'Cannibal' in the title. This is because this film, like just about every other 'Cannibal' 70s movie, shows actual animal deaths, and just crazy stuff in general with live animals.Of course, things like a Boa constrictor killing and eating a monkey are actually natural, as animals (and native tribes) killing animals occur in nature, but don't tell that to a PETA member, their brain will explode from the logic.Anyway, with the true horror that happens in this film, this is actually a good, well made movie. Considering they filmed the whole thing in the jungles of Sri Lanka is amazing - the cinematography is excellent, so it the camera work. I can't even imagine how difficult of a production this would have been. For as insane as a premise this, or any 'Cannibal' movie is, it was overall a really coherent plot, and was full of horror.This is an excellent horror movie.

Cristi_Ciopron If you would wake up in a cage full of brutish, ill—willed cannibals who only wish you bad, what would you do? One answer is in this enjoyable, cruel, professionally made Italian exploitation flick from the '70s. Other is my mom's: 'I would scream'.La _montagna del _dio _cannibale is actually an exciting, masterful shocker, colorful, suspenseful, refreshing, clean, lurid, taut, a sensationalist rewriting of a trope of the Edwardian horror fiction—the 'heart of darkness', or the Lukundoo; perhaps the most enjoyable Italian genre flick known to me. Ursula was a queen of the exotic action comedies, the alluring babe of the jungle flicks, and here she passed from Gemma's side into Sergio Martino's raw thriller. Claudio Cassinelli was a quite likable action leading man, Martino's movies took him to fame and death; Ursula does her usual nude scenes, and she seemed eager to undress as required.This movie has my age; and it aged better than I did.I liked the score, the pace, the tautness, the cinematography.Much could be said about the esteemed auteur of SLAVE …, Sergio Martino; he valiantly illustrated all the major genres of the Italian cinema—taking them shamelessly to the limits of the exploitation. Claudio Cassinelli was one of his stock actors (Murder in the Etruscan Cemetery; Slave of the Cannibal God; Island of the Fish Men; Fists of Steel). You noticed Cassinelli's quality. One more thing:--Martino's shocker has something of Gibson's exotic thriller, APOCALYPTO.The genre cinema usually mirrors what is socially acceptable as an image at a given time; it is the mirror of a society's conventions. The '70s shameless genre cinema mirrors something of the Western societies relaxed and blasé attitude, something that was dropped from the social life, attitudes and common acceptability, afterward.

kenjha A woman goes into the jungles of New Guinea in search of her husband, who has been missing since an expedition. The lush setting is very picturesque and there is plenty of action, but the characters are strictly B-movie stereotypes and the plot is less than compelling. Andress looks fine but the film would have benefited from having more scenes of her undressed. What the film has too much of is gore. There are repugnant scenes of animals and people having their insides pulled out and eaten raw. The director also lingers too much on scenes of animals killing each other, which is OK in a National Geographic show, but serves no purpose here other than to add to the gore.