Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Sam Panico 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.

arfdawg-1 The Plot.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 among themselves, and view lots of gratuitous animal cruelty, notable an iguana getting eviscerated. And it begins with a turtle attacking a croc! WTF?Very cheaply made movie. The music is like those horrible Filipino movies from the 60s/70s. Ursula Andress walks thru her role with raccoon eyes and Keach must have been on his coke bender to make this movie.I'm assuming this movie was re-edited or re-released in that the title I saw was Curse of the Cannibal God.It's really awfully directed. And half the time it makes no sense. Andress gets attacked by a tarantula and Keach tells her to watch out because the bite will kill her (it won't) but then they all go to sleep on the jungle ground where anything can get them!Kept waiting for Andress to undress. Didn't happen. She was already past her prime anyway.

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/

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.