It is a performances centric movie

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely amazing

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Also known as La Montagna del Dio Cannibale, Slave of the Cannibal God and Prisoner of the Cannibal God, don't be fooled by the pedigree of having big stars like Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach. This film may seem restrained at first, but it goes absolutely insane by the final ten minutes. I mean, when has Sergio Martino (All the Colors of the Dark, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) ever steered us wrong?Susan Stevenson (Andress, the original Bond girl) is looking for her husband Henry, an anthropologist who has gone missing in the jungles of New Guinea. Along with her brother Arthur and Professor Edward Foster (Keach), they travel to the mountain Ra Ra Me, a cursed place where the authorities will not allow expeditions.Of course, they go there. What did you expect? They're stupid white people. The jungle thanks them with attacks from spiders, snakes and alligators. And then Manolo (Claudio Cassinelli, What Have They Done to Your Daughters?), a jungle guide, joins their party.Bad idea. Arthur has sex with one of the native girls, who is already married, but a cannibal attacks and kills both the husband and wife. A missionary makes them leave, as they have brought nothing but sin, adultery and death to his village. Don't screw in the woods. And don't bring your Western values to the jungle.It turns out that none of their reasons for coming to the island are altruistic. Susan and Arthur have no interest in finding her husband, but are instead looking for uranium deposits. Foster is there just to find the tribe of cannibals who had taken him captive in the past so he can wipe them off the face of the earth.On the way, a waterfall takes Foster after Arthur doesn't save him. And they reach the mountain, which isn't just a uranium mine. It's made from uranium. And how do we know that? Well, Suan's husband's body is being worshipped as a god because the Geiger counter he had keeps ticking, like a heartbeat.At this point, the film rewards you by going completely off the rails, descending into chaos. A native attacks Susan, but is stopped by the tribe and castrated, then his penis is cooked and eaten. Another villager has sex with a giant pig. Meanwhile, the drums build in a hypnotic rhythm as another female villager masturbates (this is from the "director's special selection" version, there are several cuts of the film). As this happens, Susan is stripped and smeared with orange honey by two naked female cannibals before being fed her own brother. Manolo is tortured. It feels like a nightmare you can't wake up from, one of the only moments where the Martino who delivered a quick succession of giallo a decade or so before rears his artistic head.Then, it's over, with Manolo and Susan escaping. I mean, one would think that there would be years of therapy after this. But I don't know. Perhaps she can get over this easier than most.This isn't a great movie. It might not even be good. It is entertaining for the last section, but there's also the problematic issue of animal torture in the film - a monkey is slowly eaten by a snake and lizard being cut apart. Martino claims he tacked on these scenes at the distributor's insistence. I guess the cannibal audience - an outgrowth of the audience for mondo films - needed more than just Ursula's breasts and a dummy of Keach getting killed for their kicks.

Here's yet another movie in the Italian exploitation cycle of the cannibal film. This isn't a particularly brilliant movie, but one that is pretty easy to watch with only a few grisly moments scattered throughout. This plays more like a jungle adventure than some of the others, with our explorers having to overcome all manner of dangers including waterfalls, rapids, crocodiles, snakes, and of course the cannibals themselves. You know the drill; see one of these films and you've seen them all. All have basically the same elements except in different orders with different actors. And what actors we have here...Ursula Andress takes the lead. The former Bond girl and Hammer beauty (appearing as the star of SHE) is in good shape here for a woman of 42 years. She could pass for ten years younger no problem. Andress is the mascara-wearing and rather fearless explorer complete with an Indiana Jones-style hat which she wears at all times. Her acting ability is rather limited but she's more than happy to disrobe when the script calls for it, especially in the predictable ending which sees her stripped and then painted (with putrefying flesh, ugh!) by the natives who think of her as a goddess.Also popping up is Stacy Keach ("you never forget the taste of human flesh!"), surprisingly a rather popular and famous actor. I'm not exactly sure what he's doing here. I mean, obviously Andress just wasn't getting the parts anymore and had to sink to low-grade exploitation, but Keach? His salary must have been hurting the producers of this too as he is bumped off about halfway through, ignobly falling down a waterfall to his death. Other Italian cast members include a blond-haired creep who gets a spear in the gut for his crimes and a bearded Christopher Lambert lookalike who turns out to be the film's cheap macho lead.All of the familiar ingredients are in place for this film. You've got the foreign members of the party being picked off one by one in various gruesome ways. You've got one poor extra walking into one of those spiky jungle traps and getting impaled. Then there's the excessive animal cruelty, which sees all manner of monkeys/snakes/birds/lizards/spiders/you name it/ getting killed under the camera's unflinching gaze. These are the hardest parts of the film to stomach. There are more decapitations, impalings and castrations than you can shake a stick at, but the really grisly bits involve various rotted corpses and the inevitable flesh-eating.The cannibalism doesn't really come into it until the ending, which sees the last two survivors of the party getting captured and held prisoner by the white-painted natives. The film even includes a cannibal dwarf, which must be a first! There's nothing like a good healthy dollop of exploitation to keep people watching. In the film's one clever idea, Andress' husband is discovered tied to a stake, his body believed to be that of a god. You see, the natives think that the Geiger counter attached to his belt is the man's everlasting heart, and due to uranium in the vicinity, it's constantly going wild. This makes for a cool image, and is about the only originality you'll find here. For fans of adventure treks or Italian exploitation cinema, this passes the time nicely but never proves to be anything exceptional.

This is a film I got in the Mill Creek Drive-in 50-pack collection. The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978) is aka Slave Of The Cannibal God. Apparently the version I have is the cut version. I'm lacking between 10 and 15 minutes of the film but that is fine by me.I read about the animal cruelty that was cut out of this film so that is enough for me. This cut version of the film has enough real cruelty in it already, like the real killing of a lizard on film... that was going to far to make a bland movie in my opinion.The story is a bit blazay, not much to hold my interest for very long. This film might be for some people but it's not my kind of horror film at all - far from it.Apparently the only real highlight of the flick is to see Ursula Andress in the nude because the rest of the film is nothing to see in my humble opinion.Ursula Andress & Stacy Keach are the only real reasons I cared to watch this film and I was very disappointed with it.Great film to some, but it's not a film I care to see again.1/10

There are a lot of movies from the 70s where animals are depicted in very cruel ways, Mountain of the Cannibal God however, manages to fuse interesting camera angles with captivating storytelling and an adventurous group of teenagers and adults who want to save the husband of some girl.Credit here goes to the camera men who were brave enough to make such detail shots of animal cruelty. I know that there may be many leaves around the shot where the monkey gets eaten back to life, alive, but still this is a very enjoying movie.I don't recommend this film to be viewed by children of young adults, simply because the scenes get even more brutal as the film progresses, now I don't want to be a spoiler, but you will like this film.