My occasional crash-course survey of the cannibal genre continues with Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978), in which a schlocky Italian director makes exactly the kind of movie that people mean when they speak derisively of schlocky Italian cinema. But hey, at least Ursula Andress looks good.
#1 by jason farrell on January 21st, 2010
“it’s clumsy, soulless, and unengaging for any viewer with a higher aspiration in life than seeing Bond girl Ursula Andress undressed.”
I’m not following your argument. You want to run that by me again?
#2 by The Mud Puppy on January 23rd, 2010
Maybe I’m callous, but I’d be far more disturbed by seeing the various reptiles get killed in the movie than by seeing a python eat a monkey. After all, a snake’s gotta eat and I’ve never been much a fan of monkeys.
That does not mean I’d be cheering on the monkey’s demise, mind, and certainly they didn’t really need to feed a monkey to a snake for their trashy little cannibal film. But it’s a lot more defensible than gutting some poor monitor lizard for the camera.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on January 23rd, 2010
True. Again, I think it doesn’t get as much outrage as the monkey because of that “mammal solidarity” thing.
#4 by supersonic on January 25th, 2010
This movie would be of no historical significance whatever except that I suspect the white-painted Bo Derek in Tarzan Of The Apes was inspired by Ursula Andress’s white paint here.
(I’ve only seen the cannibal-lite R edit…)
#5 by supersonic on January 25th, 2010
…or is the white paint also copied from some earlier better cannibal movie?
#6 by Nathan Shumate on January 25th, 2010
Andress doesn’t get painted white here. In one scene, she does get slathered with mud, but it’s more of a “sunless tanner bronze” color, and by the next scene it’s invisible.