Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Instant Favorite.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Scene better cannibal movies which is most likely why it took me so long to see this one.Love the imagery of animals eating each other as is the nature of predators, throughout the movie you see lizards eating mammals mammals getting reptiles reptile eating birds, etc etc.Not as much human eating human for a film with cannibal in the title. That's a little disappointing.Really like the music. Not sure if the entire score really fits the tone of the movie it more seems that the film has one or two tracks worthy of playing over and over again and they are nice.Not the best example of Cannibal films but not the worse movie.http://cinemagardens.com

Apparently the uncut version of this is banned in Australia, so I was very interested to check it out. 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. They meet up with a friend of her husbands who believes where he might be, but it's believed he is on a cursed mountain, which we come to learn is called the Mountain of the Cannibal God. This movie is really beautifully shot. Many of the scenes look like something out of the national geographic channel. The scenery is stunning in parts. Really gorgeous. The acting is also really good, something that I'm not used to with Cannibal flicks. And when we finally meet our Cannibals, they are really scary looking dudes. The masks they wear was a nice touch. Really creepy. Though of course, you can still expect the animal cruelty, which is rampant throughout the whole film. I think this one has the most animal cruelty scenes. It gets pretty unbearable, so animal lovers beware.However, for the most part during the movie, I kept thinking to myself, "This is a gorgeous movie, I loving it, but I don't understand why it's so extreme to be banned. Sure the animal scenes are cruel, but it's a bit tame compared to the other flicks...." Well, I hadn't gotten to the ending yet. Trust me, my jaw hit the floor during the end. It actually gets pretty damn scary at the end. Like a more extreme version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Those interested in extreme cinema can expect some really graphic scenes including a bestiality scene. Damn!Final thoughts? Yeah, this one was a really good one. Looked quite expensive to make as well. I found myself very much engrossed in the whole thing. For a Cannibal exploitation movie, it's very well made and highly captivating. Highly recommended!

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.

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 some strong gore scenes and brutal animal butchery including iguana slaying,unfortunately with relatively no cannibals in sight until the climax.Still there's a really nice decapitation,a guy who gets all cut up in some kind of cannibal mantrap,a native who gets devoured by an alligator and even a bestiality scene.It's great to see Ursula Andress ravishing body in the finale.8 out of 10.