Good concept, poorly executed.

Best movie ever!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

This is a film I got in the Mill Creek Drive-in 50-pack collection. The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978) is aka Slave Of The Cannibal God. Apparently the version I have is the cut version. I'm lacking between 10 and 15 minutes of the film but that is fine by me.I read about the animal cruelty that was cut out of this film so that is enough for me. This cut version of the film has enough real cruelty in it already, like the real killing of a lizard on film... that was going to far to make a bland movie in my opinion.The story is a bit blazay, not much to hold my interest for very long. This film might be for some people but it's not my kind of horror film at all - far from it.Apparently the only real highlight of the flick is to see Ursula Andress in the nude because the rest of the film is nothing to see in my humble opinion.Ursula Andress & Stacy Keach are the only real reasons I cared to watch this film and I was very disappointed with it.Great film to some, but it's not a film I care to see again.1/10

Potential viewers, beware, because some prints of this movie, including the one that I watched, completely eliminate the Ursula Andress nude sequences. But even if you get to see an uncut version, chances are you'll still fall asleep long before the movie reaches the end. There isn't much action or anything else exciting in the movie - most of the movie consists of the protagonists making a (very) long slog through jungle terrain. What's worse is that the protagonists are very annoying and unlikable people, especially Antonio Marsina, who plays the brother of Andress' character. And you'll wonder why someone as talented as Stacy Keach is doing here. Hopefully he was just there for the money, and also maybe because his character makes his exit some time before the end. I think even fans of Italian cannibal movies made around this time will find this movie a big bore.

There are a lot of movies from the 70s where animals are depicted in very cruel ways, Mountain of the Cannibal God however, manages to fuse interesting camera angles with captivating storytelling and an adventurous group of teenagers and adults who want to save the husband of some girl.Credit here goes to the camera men who were brave enough to make such detail shots of animal cruelty. I know that there may be many leaves around the shot where the monkey gets eaten back to life, alive, but still this is a very enjoying movie.I don't recommend this film to be viewed by children of young adults, simply because the scenes get even more brutal as the film progresses, now I don't want to be a spoiler, but you will like this film.

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.