Mountain Of The Cannibal God (1979)

Uncut and Uncensored Like You've Never Seen It Before!

When her anthropologist husband disappears in New Guinea, Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress of DR. NO) convinces her colleague Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach of PRISON BREAK) to lead her into the dark heart of the deadly jungle. But while exploring the forbidden mountain of Ra-Rami, the expedition is attacked and captured by a tribe of primitive natives. Even if they can escape the barbaric tortures of these flesh-eating savages, can Susan survive the depraved lust of their Cannibal God?

Prepare yourself for the definitive edition of this notorious shocker! MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD has been completely restored from original vault materials and now includes the legendary and never-before-seen footage of deviant sexuality from the private collection of director Sergio Martino (TORSO).

"You Don't Forget The Taste Of Human Flesh!"

This Italian stinker is a wretched film despite the presence of the talented Stacy Keach as Professor Edward Foster, and the obvious assets of Ursula Andress as Susan Stevenson. The gist of the plot is that money-hungry Stevenson and her annoying brother hire Foster to help them find Stevenson's husband on a tropical island in New Guinea, which is the home to vicious cannibals, the Pukas. The rest of the film features lots of footage of scary things: alligators, cobras, tarantulas, cannibals, even a medicinal worm application in a highly unorthodox first aid setting. The expedition shapes up to be Foster, Stevenson and annoying brother, a bunch of natives, and Claudio Cassinelli as Manolo, the love interest for Stevenson.

The expedition does not start well when Foster kills a spider with a machete, spooking the natives. There is a whole lot of footage of the group walking around in the jungle, canoeing, and general unpleasantness in a hot, steamy jungle. Foster provides a lot of backstory about how he was once kidnapped by the Pukas, but they didn't eat him because he cured the chief's son of a disease. Foster clashes with the Stevenson party because he is an idealist (as is Manolo), while they just want the mineral rights to the island. Because of this conflict, they let Foster slide down an waterfall to his death, a turn of events (and the only one) that actually surprised me. Keach deserves an award for delivering his commands to tribesmen in a "native language" of some sort professionally and without laughing; the rest of the actors have accents so thick as to make ordinary interactions virtually indecipherable.

The party gets attacked by natives, and Ursula shows them a photo of her husband. They make her the new queen (you won't believe her outfit), as they have killed her husband and implanted his Geiger counter in his sternum and now worship him as a false god. There is a lot of chanting and dancing, some ritual disemboweling and cannibalism, and a budding relationship between Stevenson and Manolo as they make their escape from the cannibal isle. Watch especially for the annoying cannibal dwarf.

If I have made this seem fairly interesting or exciting, I apologize, because it isn't. Large swaths of the film are mere padding, the constant electronic music is extremely grating, the script is woeful, and the acting (except by Keach) is pitifully amateurish. The credits are long and undistinguished (you will be unsurprised to discover that the interiors were filmed in Rome), and despite the intrinsically titillating title, the only emotion possible at its conclusion is one of relief. October 13, 2008

Very tasty little snack

Another 70's cannibal flick, this is much better than expected. You've got the hot, scantily-clad Ursula Andress and her crew on a quest through the jungles of New Guinea. They get ambushed by some blood thirsty savages of course. This tribe looks extremely heinous. Their masks are what really stood out for me in this movie--some dirty, potato sack looking bags with holes cut out for the eyes. Freaky! When the maniacal tribe leader sees Ursula, he might develop a different kind of hunger.
You've got all your basic cannibal flick essentials--blood, gore, decapitations, nudity, violence with animals. The acting and dialogue are good enough not to hamper the story. It may not be extremely original, but hey, if it ain't broke... May 5, 2008

Mountain Of The Cannibal God

Great Movie To Watch,Ursula Andress Nude In Movie,Some Cannibalism In Movie Some Dangerous Animals In It Looks Fake As They Are Fighting To Death,It Does Not Look Like It Was From Some Documentary Animal Show.. April 20, 2008

Go Tell It On The Mountain

Like many Italian directors, Sergio Martino was a genre jumper, having directed such multi Oscar winning films like Torso, Mannaja, Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The key, 2019: After the Fall of New York and The Big Alligator River. Tis only natural he'd take a crack at the popular cannibal movie craze. Mountain of the Cannibal God isn't the best the subgenre has to offer, but it isn't the worst, and like Judas Priest, it delivers the goods. It follows a small group roaming around an island on a search for a supposedly cursed mountain. Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Ursula Andress, Andress' snooty brother and a few natives are the victims...er...explorers. Each has their own reasons for wanting to find the mountain, but the whole expedition begins when Ursula lands in New Guinea and requests Keach's help to find her husband who has been missing in the jungle for the past few months. But is she really on the up and up? Of course she isn't, or else I wouldn't have asked that dumb question. Much of the film is spent trekking and trudging through the jungle and overcoming various perils which include bickering, snakes, alligators, stock footage, waterfalls, cannibal attacks and booby traps(of all kinds, if you catch my drift). There's little bits of gore sprinkled throughout, but the real cannibal carnage doesn't actually begin until the last half hour or so of the film. Some might find this kinda boring and disappointing, but honestly I was never bored. Once we get to the mountain and meet the feared tribe, things do get pretty messed up. Not on a Cannibal Holocaust level or anything, but enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen. There's one shot during a kind of mini orgy that is definitely original and will probably stick in your mind for awhile. Believe me, you'll know it when you see it, and damn if it's not funny! Really, it's not a bad film at all if you're into this sort of thing. It is viewed by many fans as one of the lesser films in the genre, but I've definitely seen much worse. I like it quite a bit actually. One thing you shouldn't miss out on is the 13 minute interview with Sergio Martino. Talk about funny! Most of it is straightforward talk of the film, but the documentary catches him in not one, but two blatant lies! The first involves a scene of animal snuff(prevalent to Italian jungle movies of the time). The scene was of a snake with a monkey in it's mouth(a rather sad image when you see it in the film). Martino makes it sound as though it was just an unfortunate accident and coincidence that that particular shot was filmed. However, the documentary shows you how a bad optical trick was used to cover up the shot of a person shoving the monkey into the snake's mouth!! Martino also mentions how there were no erotic images in the film, and that statement is immediately followed by a rapid fire montage of all of the nude/sex scenes in the film. This is really funny and makes Martino look either like a man who's lost his memory or a really bad liar. If you like the cannibal stuff, then you should have a good time with Mountain Of The Cannibal God. February 11, 2008

Enjoyable Italian cannibal romp.

A woman (Ursula Andress) and her doctor friend (Stacy Keach) with a crew head into the jungles of New Guiena in search of her missing husband. While they explore the jungle, they discover a tribe of wild cannibals that want them all for dinner at the mysterious mountain of Ra-Rami to appease the cannibal god.

Violent and sleazy Italian horror adventure movie in the tradition of "Indiana Jones" but pre-dates that and from the director of "Torso" Sergio Martino. The acting is above average and the storyline is a bit paperthin but this is a shocking movie about cannibalism especially with gory scenes like castration, flesh-eating and of course scenes of animals actually getting killed such as a lizard getting gutted while it's alive and a Monkey being devoured as it screams in a Anaconda's mouth, definitely not stuff for animal lovers. Ms. Andress whom you might know from some James Bond movies and a few issues of 70's Playboy magazines is quite attractive in this movie, this isn't a film for the squeamish but it's very enjoyable.

The DVD here from Anchor Bay which Blue Underground is re-issuing this november contains a very good widescreen transfer with good sound and some nice extras like an interview with the director, trailer, bios and Poster-and-still gallery.

Also recommended: "Cannibal Ferox", "Jungle Holocaust" (a.k.a. Last Cannibal World)", "The Untold Story", "Maniac (1980)", "Man from Deep River", "Indiana Jones Trilogy", "The Mummy (1999)", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Men Behind The Sun", "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Hannibal", "Beyond The Darkness: Buio Omega", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & 2003 remake with The Beginning", "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)", "The Hills Have Eyes 2 (1985 and 2007)", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "Eaten Alive! (1980)", "Hell of the Living Dead (a.k.a. Night of the Zombies, Virus, Zombie Creeping Flesh)", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Ichi The Killer", "Battle Royale", "Silence of the Lambs", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Anthropophagus", "The New York Ripper", "Wolf Creek" and "Cannibal Holocaust". October 6, 2007

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