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.
Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the publisher of Cold Fusion Media.
#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.