The Mountain of the Cannibal God

Original title:
Montagna del dio cannibale, La

AKA:
Primitive Desires (UK)
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
Slave of the Cannibal God
The Mountain of the Cannibal God (Europe: English title) (video title)

Written by:
Cesare Frugoni (screenplay)
Cesare Frugoni (story)

Directed by:
Sergio Martino

Made in:
Italy in 1978

Actors:
Ursula Andress .... Susan Stevenson
Stacy Keach .... Professor Edward Foster
Claudio Cassinelli .... Arthur Stevenson
Helmut Berger .... Arthur Weisser
Franco Fantasia .... Father Moses
Lanfranco Spinola .... Consul Burns
Carlo Longhi .... Phil, the pilot
Luigina Rocchi .... Sura

Plot:
Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina) get off a plane somewhere in South America, allegedly in search of her husband. They team up with, Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach). The three head into the jungle, get in more than a few fights amongst themselves, and view lots of gratuitous animal cruelty, notable an iguana getting eviscerated. IMDB

Review:
Not a good movie. :/ :) And definately not for everyone.

This is a classic Italian cannibal movie: horrible fake accents, even worse acting, but the music is GREAT!! :D It is almost worth watching these movies for the music - or the special "travel music" as Fredrik and I call it.

This one has a bad plot, a very typical - people go in jungle, people get killed by cannibals, other people go look for dead people, these people get killed by cannibals, only 1 or 2 people survive.

Surprisingly, the language in this one is English (even though the dialect constantly changes), you may recognize one of the main actors from the movie American History X.

And you might recall the main character, Ursula Andress, from a famous Bond movie - Dr. No. Yes - she is the one that comes out of the sea in the white bikini. (Did you know - her voice was dubbed in Dr. No - too heavy of an accent (She's Swiss).) And to think - she ended up doing horrible, Italian cannibal movies. :/

This one isn't so bloody and gory as other Italian cannibal movies, but there are definately some nasty parts. Really makes you wonder how they could make such good effects on such a low budget - and movies today are just - awful.. :/

But anyways - I don't recommend this movie unless you are into movies like Cannibal Holocaust.

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