Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
paskuniag-584-890551
If you wish to see this epic, get the unrated, uncut version. This movie would merely be dopey in the sanitized version. Seeing the whole enchilada just enlarges the stupidity of this film, instead of making it gross. Ursula Undress- er- Andress- must have not flashed her pecs in a while, which is why she is in this movie. Stacy Keach must have needed the money. There is no other reason for them to be in this awful waste of celluloid.
Horror Banana-nanza
Oh man. Why am I reviewing this movie?Susan and her brother head off to some jungle in New Guinea to look for her husband. We get the normal animal deaths, a boneheaded bunch of arguments, and a scene where Susan is smeared in paint while nude and declared a god. We get a penis lopped off, some gutting, and a smack in the forehead twist that will leave fans of these goofball movies wondering why they bothered.So why am I reviewing this? Well, it's a Video Nasty, for one. Although I'm not sure why. There's so little in this movie that without the labeling of it as such, no one would have ever watched it. There's a scene with a rubber lizard that made me laugh loudly, and paper mache crocodiles that make Ed Wood's movies seem high budget.Not to mention the bizzaro adventure sequences with members of the group being left behind to die, leading to arguments that aren't worth the viewer's time. Also, it turns out Susan is after Uranium, not her brother.Too bad the Puka (close to Puke) cannibals eat most of the group first. This movie isn't good for effects, story, or nastiness. It's just plain boring. And to make matters worse, a monkey gets eaten by a snake for the "good of entertainment."Puka indeed __________________For all the Horror Banana's reviews, visit http://morozov924.hubpages.com/
Scarecrow-88
Ursula Andress is the wife of a British archaeologist who has been missing since going on an expedition into a New Guinea jungle and desires to find his whereabouts. She enlists the aid of Stacy Keach, another professor / archaeologist, renowned but eccentric and just a little aloof. Andress' brother, Antonio Marsina, insists on accompanying them and they set off for a specific island which just might contain a cannibalistic tribe known as the Puka. Keach harbors a secret, he was once associated with the Puka and suffers horrible nightmares as a result, emotionally scarred for participating in their tribal ceremonies in order to co-exist with them and survive. While on the island, Andress, Keach, and Marsini encounter a mission operated by a priest who leads a group of people which inhabit it. Andress is almost killed by a Puka hunter, covered in chalk and wearing a hardened mask carved from tree trunk, saved by Claudio Cassinelli, an outsider who has lived on the island for some time. Cassinelli reluctantly agrees to lead Andress, Keach(..whose knee was crushed by the stone battle ax from the Puka warrior who just so happened to be his guide and helper), and Marsini to the mountain..facing unprecedented trials and danger along the way, including violent rapids and a scary ascent up a waterfall mountain. Soon Cassinelli will discover to his horror Andress and Marsini's true motives for ascending up the mountain..Relatively well made and exciting adventure, featuring exotic locales and numerous elements which will definitely attract the cannibal genre crowd. Martino includes excerpts of animal violence, particularly a sickening act where we see a lengthly sequence showing a monkey's head caught in the mouth of a python(..the fact that this was purposely committed by the crew makes it a pretty repulsive scene, completely inappropriate and incorrigible). Groovy croc attack on one of Keach's guides(..biting the poor guy's arm off), along with an animal trap seizing another member of his crew, causing sharpened stones to stab him multiple times while hanging upside down and powerless. You also have a beheading and castration, along with a disemboweling, including a cracked skull revealing damaged brains. Cassinelli is extraordinary as the man Andress depends on, assuming the heroic role that seemed meant for Keach, who isn't quite the same after the attack that leaves him crippled / wounded. As expected, the intended audience get their shocking "dinner scene" as the cannibal tribe have a grand feast after removing organs and guts from a murdered human. Andress is stripped of her clothes and is completely naked, being prepared by the Puka, "painted" and ward-robed as their goddess, even forced to eat human meat! Keach is fascinating to watch, expressing underlying emotional distress and determination. The film establishes him in the early going as the leader of the expedition, with Cassinelli entering the picture midway through. Cassinelli has this terrific scene where he is able to secure snakes which offer possible harm to Andress and Marsina. The film's true villain is Marsina who slowly reveals himself to be a self-absorbed cretin, letting someone die because he was holding him back in his personal quest to satiate his avarice.While I found some of the violent animal footage effective, if tiresome, I thought the monkey being devoured by the python was rather too gratuitous, and while I don't want to beat a dead horse, the way this is executed by Martino and his handlers is not only inhumane, but despicable.
Vomitron_G
"Normal" movie-watchers wouldn't probably rate this type of sleazy Italian trash any higher than 4/10. But when it comes to Italian cannibal-movies, these films should be judged by different standards and different rules apply to the genre. I say MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD delivers the goods. It's entertaining, adventurous and contains a healthy dosage of cannibalistic gore and nudity (provided by a gorgeous-looking Ursula Andress, amongst others). Of course, there's also the obligatory violent wildlife stock-footage and cruelty-to-animals scenes. I myself am not in favor of such scenes, but one can always close his eyes for a few seconds when they come on. Regardless, this is certainly one of the better cannibal-movies I've seen so far.
