La montagna del dio cannibale

Plot synopsis:
Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) is trying to find her missing anthropologist husband Henry in the jungles of New Guinea. She and her brother Arthur enlist the services of Professor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach), who thinks her husband might have headed for the mountain Ra Ra Me, which is located just off the coast on the island of Roka.
The locals believe that the mountain is cursed, and the authorities won't allow expeditions there. So they surreptitiously head on into the jungle to see if that's where he went. They eventually make it to the island, and after a few run-ins against some unfriendly anacondas, alligators and tarantulas, they meet another jungle explorer named Manolo (Claudio Cassinelli) who's been staying at a nearby mission camp and agrees to join them in their expedition.
Matters become complicated when it then turns out that each of them has their own private reasons for coming to the island, and finding Susan's husband was not part of any of them. Susan and Arthur have secretly been looking for uranium deposits and then Foster reveals that he has only come there because he had been on the island a few years previously and was taken captive by a tribe of primitive cannibals; he has only returned to see if they still exist and wipe them out. However, Foster later dies when climbing up a waterfall.
Upon arriving at the mountain, Arthur is killed off and Manolo and Susan are immediately captured by cannibals and taken to their camp. There they find the primitives worshipping the remains of Susan's husband as they can hear his Geiger counter ticking and believe it to be his heart still working. Susan is subsequently spared, while the cannibals feast on human and reptile flesh. She is stripped naked, tied up, and smeared with an orange cream by two native girls for what is supposed to be a session of honey torture, but she is instead turned into a living goddess. Manolo is tied up and tortured, while the others are eaten. Manolo and Susan eventually escape after enduring the ordeal.

Tags: violence, cruelty, sadist, romantic

Review:
In this case, a giant snake eating a monkey, tribesmen slicing open a large lizard, and a number of others - intense imagery but it does go to show how brutal nature can be.Andress plays Susan Stevenson, the wife of a scientist who has become lost in the New Guinea jungle, and mounts an expedition with the help of her brother and another scientist.
I decided to buy the uncut and digitally remastered version of 'Mountain of the Cannibal God' after having read some online reviews, (which were pretty mixed), and after having watched the trailer for the film on some of the other Vipco Screamtime Collection DVDs.The Horror film genre is one that particularly interests me, as does the sub-genre of Cannibalism and films that have been previously banned, and I feel that this film delivers all that can be expected of it.There are interesting plot twists and developments, (although the story is very straight-forward), the dialogue is simple but effective and well executed for a film of this genre, it has the former Bond girl Ursula Andress 'in all her beautiful glory', it has an intriguing musical score, lashings of violence and gore that are shot in a fairly realistic fashion, and even an annoying cannibal dwarf!
What more could you possibly ask for?Although perhaps at not quite the same level of entertainment and cinematic quality of a film like 'Cannibal Holocaust', which is far more tense and shocking, this is nevertheless an extremely highly under-rated and enjoyable film that is more than well worth a look if you are interested in this type of genre.
Her brother and another respected anthropologist (Stacy Keach) accompany her to 'Ra Ra Mu'  Roughly translated: the mountain of the Cannibal God, where a savage tribe still feasts on human flesh.The first hour of the film is slow, atmospheric and surprisingly educational!
The following scene, where the producers show close-ups of the monkey's face, in all its anguish, is almost unbearable, and adds, of course, nothing to the story, except a bitter aftertaste.The music (by de Angelis & de Angelis) is beautiful, and watching the then 41-year-old Ursula Andress in the nude, all tied up, are this movie's highlights..
"The Mountain Of The Cannibal God" of 1978 is a film with undeniable qualities (Which other Italian Cannibal flick could claim to star an international star like proto-Bondgirl Ursula Andress in a very revealing role?).
a menacing and savage jungle...Within the Cannibal sub-genre, "The Mountain Of The Cannibal God" is not a particularly memorable film, but it has several qualities that no Italian Exploitation lover should miss.
Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother, Arthur (Antonio Marsina), travel to the jungles of New Guinea to search for a lost expedition, which included Susan's husband.
They enlist the help of Edward Foster (Stacey Keach), an anthropologist, who has visited the area before and is certain that Susan's husband went to the supposedly cursed area known as Ra Ra Mea, on the island of Roka.Sergio Martino's addition to the Italian cannibal sub-genre is a far more tame and forgettable movie than Cannibal Holocaust' (1979) or Cannibal Ferox' (1981).
The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978) *** (out of 4) Italian cannibal flick has a wife (Ursula Andress) hiring a man (Stacy Keach) to take her through the New Guinea jungle after her husband went missing on an expedition.
The violence involving animals is real, as are Ursula's breasts, but the comparatively small amounts of gore involving humans are about what you would expect from a 1970s Italian exploitation flick.Overall, this surprisingly plays like a real movie with real actors for the most part.
Just like Brian Blessed being asked to shout "Gordon's Alive!" by fans all over the world, the same thing happens with Stacey Keach, only he's asked to utter to immortal line: "You don't forget the taste of human flesh!"Yet another entry in the 'nobody asked for this' genre of Italian Cannibal films, Slave of the Cannibal God features slightly less animal cruelty that the more notorious Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox, but there's still enough of it to sour up what could have been a pretty good jungle horror adventure.Ursula Andress stars as a woman out to track down her husband, who has gone missing in New Guinea.
On an offshore island, they encounter the local Puka cannibal tribe, which proceeds to treat Susan as some sort of golden goddess.Director Sergio Martino ("Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key", "Torso") makes sure that his audience has a good time with this entry into Italy's popular cannibal / jungle genre.
But Marsina is a very effective antagonistic jerk, Keach is solid as always, and Claudio Cassinelli does fine as the helpful adventurer Manolo.All in all, if you've enjoyed other films in this vein like "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Cannibal Ferox", you'll probably enjoy this one as well.Eight out of 10..
or, maybe it was some of the unnatural things done to a pig once they reached the mountain.There is a lot of animal killing in the film, but it is the same stuff you would see on Wild Kingdom, but maybe for a little longer than you are used to.There is also Ursula Andress.
The surprise of "Mountain of the Cannibal God" is that it's an almost endearing, sporadically exciting adventure flick through hostile jungles and flesheating tribesmen; the production values are strong, the sets and locations well-utilized (including a large cavern where the cannibals reside that does invoke the middle "Indiana Jones" film), and director Sergio Martino ("Torso") applies a faux-artistic sense of style to the proceedings, raising it just above its more blatantly exploitative brethren.
Still, Stacy Keach gives a good performance as a veteran explorer who agrees to aid busty Ursula Andress (who has 2 delicious nude scenes) in the search for her husband, who went missing in Cannibal Country...but is our statuesque beauty harboring and ulterior motive?
Depending on which version you see, this film could look like anything from a moderately tasteful B-grade Hollywood jungle adventure flick by way of Italy (the most cut version, usually known as 'Slave Of The Cannibal God') to an overtly Italian cannibal/jungle genre flick, with all that the latter entails: plenty of extreme footage of real animal violence (turtle bites 'gator, snake molests bird, python eats monkey, lizard regurgitates snake - the list goes on ridiculously), plus the expected human-on-human cannibalism, entrail-paddling and a castration to boot.Mountain Of The Cannibal God definitely has a more upmarket and light-hearted veneer than most of its cousins in this genre.
Ursula Andress is on hand to glam things up, and Stacy Keach brings some leading man aura to his part as the guy who survived life as the cannibals' prisoner and now wants to go back up the mountain to exorcise his demons.
That's where magic can be found, and this movie is a result of one of those treasure hunts.The story  7/10 A woman (Susan  Ursula Andress) and her brother (Arthur  Antonio Marsina) go to New Guinnea in search of her missing husband.
This is not the best cannibal film by any means but it is one of the more entertaining and easy to watch entries in this great genre.Mountain Of The Cannibal God has a fairly standard plot, as far as cannibal films go: Susan and her brother, Arthur, arrive in Papua New Guinea to search for Susan's missing husband.
As with most of the violence in the movie, the sacrificing of animals pales in contrast to anything contained in Deodato's brilliant cannibal films and, for a change, is contextually relevant as native rituals.Things start to pick up as the group find themselves being hunted by the local tribe.
Playing like an Italian rip-off of an Indiana Jones movie(though it precedes Raiders by at least five years) this movie has most of what makes a third world cannibal film: beheading, gutting, animal torture/killing,graphic castration, and if you get a hold of the Anchor Bay release there are added scenes from the directors personal archives of a jungle woman masturbating, and a native getting it on with a pig.
"Mountain of the Cannibal God" is another decent cannibal flick with the storyline of a classic adventure movie, however gore and violence are more explicit than in all those Indiana Jones-type films!
Like he did it with "Deep River Savages" before, Umberto Lenzi stole once more scenes and included them later into his exploitation classic "Eaten Alive", which is an only déjà vù-experience from other cannibal movies...Next to Joe D´Amato´s "Emanuelle and the last Cannibals" this one is probably the sexiest genre contribution ever, what´s due to its amazing main actress Ursula Andress!
Starring Stacy Keach and Ursula Andress, 'Slave' has all the nasty, staple ingredients that keep rabid fans thirsting for more: Real animal killings, gore, nudity, hungry cannibals, stupid men and scheming bitches.The human gore is fun (mainly because it's so fake), but there are a couple of standard (for this type of film), freakish, tribal "ritual" scenes involving real animals.
A good bit of time is spent hacking their way through dense forest on some jungle island off of Papua New Guinea in search of the supposedly lost Puka tribe.The movie is mildly entertaining, it's sort of like watching a more cruel version of Wild Kingdom at times.
Susan(Ursula Andress)Stevenson's ethnologist husband has gone missing during an expedition in New Guinea.Susan goes after him with her brother Arthur enlisting his friend Edward Foster(Stacy Keach)as a guide.The missing man was last seen headed for a "cursed" mountain on an island.The trip there is fraught with peril from animals and natives as well as the prospect of betrayal by members of the search party with ulterior motives.Finally at the mountain the remaining members of the expedition must cope with a Stone Age cannibal tribe."Mountain of the Cannibal God" is not as harrowing and disturbing as Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust" or "Jungle Holocaust".
There are a couple scenes that do qualify - the monitor lizard being torn apart by native guides helping Ursula Andress, her brother, and jungle guide/professor Stacy Keach find her husband being the most offensive.
Keach is solid in his performance as well, and the film does have its entertainment value at times but once we get to the actual tribe of cannibals and the resolution of finding Andress's husband - logic, tension, and taste take off completely..
Sergio Martino directs this fun slice of jungle adventure with gusto, delivering nudity and gore aplenty .Starring Stacy Keach and Ursula Andress in major roles, Mountain of the Cannibal God manages to deliver some of the best performances of the cannibal genre and also succeeds in giving sleaze-fans plenty to enjoy.Andress plays Susan Stevenson, a widow who travels to New Guinea with her brother Arthur in an attempt to find out what has happened to her husband, who vanished whilst on an expedition in the jungle.
They capture the three surviving members of the expedition (one of the team dies en route), and proceed to kill and torture them, only taking time out only to castrate one of their own and indulge in some sexy shenanigans (including some female cannibal masturbation and the oft-mentioned pig shagging scene).As is standard with this kind of movie, there is plenty of animal cruelty that some may find objectionable and quite a bit of nudity, which most will probably find only too welcome.MOTCG is a pretty good movieslightly better than Eaten Alive (which steals footage from Martino's picture), but not quite as good as Cannibal Ferox and deserves to be seen by all fans of the genre..
While they are exploring the jungle they also run into a tribe of cannibalistic wild folks who want them for dinner at the mysterious mountain of Ra-Rami to appease the cannibal god.Violent and sleazy Italian made horror adventure in the tradition of "Indiana Jones" but pre-dates those movies and from the director of "Torso" Sergio Martino.
The acting is above average especially the storyline which is kind of paper-thin but there is some good gore effects in this movie like cannibalism and a shocking castration scene, Ms. Andress whom is known for being in a James Bond movie and Playboy is such a beauty in this movie that she almost nearly steals the show.There's some actual animal killing in this movie for the sake of entertainment such as a Anaconda devouring a live monkey and a big lizard getting gutted alive which is not as bad as the turtle scene in "Cannibal Holocaust".
WARDH, YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY, and THE CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TAIL - helms this pretty derivative (but still decent and relatively enjoyable...if you like these sort of films...) tale of jungle survival.SLAVE is about a woman (played by hot-bodied Ursula Andress) and her brother who are going to search for the woman's husband, who disappeared while on an exploration expedition.
A few decent gore scenes, the requisite animal killing, and full-frontal by Ms. Andress (which IS a plus...) - the same old stuff from the Italian cannibal genre.
(aka: MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD)Another of the cannibal rage that was popular in the late 70s, early 80s, this one involves a wealthy woman Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) who's husband is reported missing on a large jungle island off the coast of New Guinea.
Good gawd!!But fortunately Manolo manages to trick his captors and kills one of them by smashing his head against a rock (cool exposed brains scene) and saves Susan (who the natives think is a goddess) by managing to make their escape.This is one of the better cannibal films not so much for the gore as it was the acting by Keach & Co.
In our basic story, we have Susan (played by Ursula Andress, who was apparently in her forties when she made this) and her annoying brother Arthur, who wish to go on a secret expedition in the New Guinea jungle to find her husband who has been missing.
The plot:Feeling uneasy over not hearing a single word from her husband Henry, since he left to do an expedition in a remote jungle based in New Guinea.Susan Stevenson decides that she has had enough of waiting by the phone,and is instead going to New Guinea in an attempt to find out what has been keep Henry so busy.Not wanting his sister to visit a possibly dangerous place on her own,Susan's brother Arthur decides to come along so that he can watch her back and protect her if any situation arises.Shortly after getting off the plane,Susan and Arthur enlist the help of mutual friend Dr.Edward Foster to guide them through the jungle which Susan suspects contains her husband.Talking to the local residents who live near by the jungle,the group are terrified to discover, that the residents have made it a rule that no one is allowed to enter the jungle of "Ra Ra Me",due to there being a legendary myth about the mountain surrounded by the jungle being cursed.View on the film:Unlike the rough,industrial documentary moments in Deodato's Jungle Holocaust and the impressively well chosen moments of calm in Lenzi's landmark Italian Cannibal film Man From Deep River,Co-writer (along with Cseare Frugoni) /director Sergio Martino gives the film an appearance which strongly looks back towards the Tarzan movies of the 1930's.Wanting to show off the films stunning New Guinea location,Martino uses a number of wide angles that along with allowing him to show all of the environment that the group are finding themselves up against,also allows him to give an equal amount of focus to the actors and the fantastic location that they are surrounded by.Despite being all shot on location,the last 30 minutes or so of the film set in a New Guinea mountain cave feel disappointingly "stagey",due to the location oddly not crating any atmospheric sense of "danger",and the residents of the cave being weird (a scene involving someone getting a little too friendly with a pig being a particularly strange moment!) but not being that frightening.Watching the bonus interview for this very enjoyable film on the Blue Underground DVD,I was surprised to see Sergio Martino being openly shown as lying about not knowing that the scenes of animal torture in the movie were not going to take place.Although the animal killing scenes are on the nasty side,Martino smartly goes for a much more matter of fact directing style of the scenes,and thankfully avoids the feeling of the scenes just being there to make the viewers jump out of their seats.Although I have not seen Dr No in a number of years,I feel that the great performance by Ursula Anderss (whose beautiful curves are put on full display for the films final) really helps to hold the film together,thanks to Andress showing Susan to be someone who is prepared to run straight into a paternally deadly situation,but is also someone who (most of the time) knows when to use her intelligence's and instincts to avoid the deadly traps that lay before her.For the excellent screenplay of the film,Martino and Frugoni initially make the film look like its going to be a fun Jungle adventure,until around the half way point.Where,Martino and Frugoni cleverly allow the gangs dark internal motives to slowly rise to the suffice,and make each of the characters look far from the innocents that they may have originally appeared..
Mountain of the Cannibal God. 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.
Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for her missing husband who went on an expedition deep into the jungles.
"The Mountain of the Cannibal God" is a more than capable introduction to the cannibal genre.**SPOILERS**Arriving in New Guinea, Susan Stevenson, (Ursula Andress) is directed to Professor Edward Foster, (Stacy Keach) a tracker and jungle expert, to help her look for her missing husband.