Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

paskuniag-584-890551 If you wish to see this epic, get the unrated, uncut version. This movie would merely be dopey in the sanitized version. Seeing the whole enchilada just enlarges the stupidity of this film, instead of making it gross. Ursula Undress- er- Andress- must have not flashed her pecs in a while, which is why she is in this movie. Stacy Keach must have needed the money. There is no other reason for them to be in this awful waste of celluloid.

Wizard-8 Potential viewers, beware, because some prints of this movie, including the one that I watched, completely eliminate the Ursula Andress nude sequences. But even if you get to see an uncut version, chances are you'll still fall asleep long before the movie reaches the end. There isn't much action or anything else exciting in the movie - most of the movie consists of the protagonists making a (very) long slog through jungle terrain. What's worse is that the protagonists are very annoying and unlikable people, especially Antonio Marsina, who plays the brother of Andress' character. And you'll wonder why someone as talented as Stacy Keach is doing here. Hopefully he was just there for the money, and also maybe because his character makes his exit some time before the end. I think even fans of Italian cannibal movies made around this time will find this movie a big bore.

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.

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.