Colossus and the Headhunters
Colossus and the Headhunters
| 10 January 1963 (USA)
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Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.

Reviews
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Rainey Dawn Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island by sea to a new land. The volcano has ruined their island. They end up on another island and find themselves in between two warrior tribes fighting their own battles. Maciste and his people helps them and is offered a place among the one of the tribes.Well I find this one not really any different than most of the Maciste films - it's just different people the character helps and becomes a hero for them.The film is just as bad as most all of the other Maciste / Colossus / Hercules (etc) movies. Only a small handful of them stand out to me and are decent enough for me to enjoy to a degree - this film isn't one of them.1/10
bkoganbing Colossus and the Headhunters finds Maciste leading a bunch of people off an island that's about to do a Krakatoa in the ancient world. Possibly this was the lost Atlantis although the film never says so. They sail huddled together on one really big raft that should never have proved seaworthy that long for so many people, about 25 of them. Kirk Morris manages to get them miles away to a new island.Where they find two feuding tribes, the bad people who are headhunters and the good people who aren't. A good people traitor has allied himself with the headhunters in the hopes of taking over everything. Maciste tries an isolationist policy, but when that doesn't work, you know who he's going to help.That's the movie in a nutshell and other than admiring Kirk Morris's physique there just ain't anything more to it.
Claudio Carvalho Maciste rescues Ario, the son King Sandor, and his people from their land in a volcanic island that blows-up and they sail to the Land and Urias in a long and dangerous voyage. They are captured by the Urias but when the Queen Amoha meets Maciste, she tells that the traitor Kermis has joined the tribe of Head Hunters and slaughtered her people, but the warrior Taro has saved them from the annihilation; however, her father King Olibauna was missing in action. She asks Maciste to help her against the Head Hunters, but Maciste tells that he is protecting the tribe of Ario. When the Urias are attacked by the Head Hunters, Maciste decides to help Queen Amoha."Maciste Contro i Cacciatori di Teste" is really a bad movie and deserves the low IMDb User rating. The story has an abrupt beginning, a predictable screenplay, poor special effects and terrible acting. I saw this movie in a low-quality VHS released by Reserva Especial Video to make it worse. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Maciste Contra os Caçadores de Cabeças" ("Maciste Against the Head Hunters")
wes-connors For Italy and the world, handsome and muscular Kirk Morris slips into his Herculean loincloth, as "Maciste". He saves part of a tribe from the catastrophic blow-up of their island. Mr. Morris befriends less muscular Demeter Bitenc (as Ariel). Their splintered tribe sails to a new land, but has trouble mixing in with warring inhabitants. Morris tries to save beautiful Laura Brown (as Amoa), a tribal queen, from marrying the man who blinded and kidnapped her father.Guido Malatesta's "Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste" was inappropriately re-titled "Colossus and the Headhunters" in the translation from Italian to English. There are some good sets and moderately exciting sequences. Some of the footage may be flown in from another movie, but it is nicely inserted. Morris makes a good enough "Maciste"; as you might expect, this isn't a film to showcase one's acting prowess.**** Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste (1960) Guido Malatesta ~ Kirk Morris, Demeter Bitenc, Laura Brown