The Mountain of the Cannibal God
(1978)
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The Mountain of the Cannibal God
(1978)
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Ursula Andress | ... |
Susan Stevenson
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Stacy Keach | ... |
Professor Edward Foster
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Claudio Cassinelli | ... |
Manolo
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Antonio Marsina | ... |
Arthur Weisser
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Franco Fantasia | ... |
Father Moses
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Lanfranco Spinola | ... |
Consul Burns
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Carlo Longhi | ... |
Phil, the pilot
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Luigina Rocchi | ... |
Sura
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Akushula Selayah | ... |
(as Akushla Sellajaah)
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Dudley Wanaguru |
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T.M. Munna |
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M. Suki |
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Giovanni Masini |
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Franco Cuccu |
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Franco Coduti | ... |
(as Gianfranco Coduti)
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Susan Stevenson and her brother Arthur get off a plane in Papua New Guinea, looking for her missing husband. They team up with, Dr. Edward Foster. 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. Written by Sujit R. Varma
I can't figure out why these late 1970s, Italian cannibal adventures intrigue me so much. I always get disgusted when they kill animals for the sake of a stupid movie, and yet time and time again, I'm drawn to movies like SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD, which, in this case, I saw under its uncut European version, MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD. I had thought that with big names like Ursulla Andres and Stacey Keach involved, this one would be at least a little cleaner than CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, the most notorious of the genre.
As another of those "movies we love to hate", I recommend this one if it's easily accessible. Fans of Andres will enjoy seeing her naked, of course. As a jungle adventure, it succeeds and the occasional gore makes it that much more intense. Scenes of humans bleeding are faked, but as is often the case, the scenes of animals (i.e. a monitor lizard) bleeding are way too authentic. I don't advise eating spagheti while watching this story of some lady seeking her missing husband in a dense jungle, and stumbling upon "The Puka", a group of cannibals (one of which is a dwarf; added for comic relief).