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Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.2/10
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Genre
  
Adventure, Horror

Country
  
Italy

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Release date
  
1978

Writer
  
Cesare Frugoni (screenplay), Cesare Frugoni (story), Sergio Martino (screenplay), Sergio Martino (story)

Initial release
  
May 25, 1978 (West Germany)

Genres
  
Horror, Adventure Film, Slasher

Music director
  
Maurizio De Angelis, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, Guido De Angelis

Cast
  
(Susan Stevenson), (Professor Edward Foster), (Manolo),
Antonio Marsina
(Arthur Weisser), (Father Moses)

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Tagline
  
When the price of lust is death..!

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The Mountain of the Cannibal God (Italian title: La montagna del dio cannibale) is an Italian cult movie starring Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach with English dialogue that was filmed in Sri Lanka. The film was also widely released in the US in 1979 as Slave of the Cannibal God from New Line Cinema and released in the UK as Prisoner of the Cannibal God with a poster designed by Sam Peffer. The film was banned in the UK until 2001 for its graphic violence and considered a "video nasty".

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Plot

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Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) is trying to find her missing anthropologist husband Henry in the jungles of New Guinea. She and her brother Arthur enlist the services of Professor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach), who thinks her husband might have headed for the mountain Ra Ra Me, which is located just off the coast on the island of Roka.

The locals believe that the mountain is cursed, and the authorities won't allow expeditions there. So they surreptitiously head on into the jungle to see if that's where he went. They eventually make it to the island, and after a few run-ins against some unfriendly anacondas, alligators and tarantulas, they meet another jungle explorer named Manolo (Claudio Cassinelli) who's been staying at a nearby mission camp and agrees to join them in their expedition.

Matters become complicated when it then turns out that each of them has their own private reasons for coming to the island, and finding Susan's husband was not part of any of them. Susan and Arthur have secretly been looking for uranium deposits and then Foster reveals that he has only come there because he had been on the island a few years previously and was taken captive by a tribe of primitive cannibals; he has only returned to see if they still exist and wipe them out. However, Foster later dies when climbing up a waterfall.

Upon arriving at the mountain, Arthur is killed off and Manolo and Susan are immediately captured by cannibals and taken to their camp. There they find the primitives worshipping the remains of Susan's husband as they can hear his Geiger counter ticking and believe it to be his heart still working. Susan is subsequently spared, while the cannibals feast on human and reptile flesh. She is stripped naked, tied up, and smeared with an orange cream by two native girls for what is supposed to be a session of honey torture, but she is instead turned into a living goddess. Manolo is tied up and tortured, while the others are eaten. Manolo and Susan eventually escape after enduring the ordeal.

Cast

  • Ursula Andress - Susan Stevenson
  • Stacy Keach - Edward Foster
  • Claudio Cassinelli - Manolo
  • Antonio Marsina - Arthur Weisser
  • Franco Fantasia - Father Moses
  • Violence

    The uncut European print shows scene of gratuitous animal violence. This includes a monitor lizard being gutted, and a live monkey being devoured by a python. Director Sergio Martino admits he only tacked these on at the distributor's insistence. In addition the extended version of the film (credited to the "private collection of the director") features explicit shots of a native girl masturbating, and a simulated sex scene between a tribesman and a wild pig.

    Critical reception

    Allmovie's review of the film was negative, calling it "a graphic and unpleasant film, with all the noxious trademarks intact: gratuitous violence, real-life atrocities committed against live animals and an uncomfortably imperialist attitude towards underprivileged peoples."

    References

    The Mountain of the Cannibal God Wikipedia
    The Mountain of the Cannibal God IMDbThe Mountain of the Cannibal God themoviedb.org


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