Wednesday, December 22, 2021

'The Mountain of the Cannibal God' (1978) – Sergio Martino.

It's time for some generously juicy jungle jackanapes with some additionally plentiful Italian red sauce in greatly loved genre movie master Sergio Martino's gut-slingingly sadistic 1978 cannibal chow-down classic 'The Mountain of the Cannibal God', wherein exquisite Euro-cult super siren Ursula Undress foolhardily braves a grisly cavalcade of cranium chewing crocodiles, insanely inquisitive natives, and the iniquitous humidity of an arachnid infested Green inferno in order to hopefully locate her missing clever clogs husband. And it is not too long into plucky Susan's (Ursula Andress) monumentally macabre Cannibal mountain horror hike, along with brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina), and tough, wise-cracking professor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach) when they are grimly waylaid by a murderous menagerie of indigenous species, all mustard keen to take a blissful bite out of delectable Ursula's credibly edible bod! but it is the ferociously carnal Cannibal God worshipping bipeds increasingly hot on her entrails that threaten to confound their intrepid expedition into these savage jungle hinterlands, and the film's gastronomically gruesome finale provides an especially tasty terror-titbit for gore gourmandizing splatter freaks to hungrily 'pig' out on! 

With its crackling cast of terrorized Thespians, exotic fear-flung locations, Sergio Martino's diabolically delicious epicurean odyssey 'The Mountain of the Cannibal God', with its plethora of profane sacred rites, eerily esoteric alfresco dining, and bravura blood-letting makes for a maddeningly Moorish entrée into the boiling hot midnight movie miasma of the vintage Italian cannibal Movie! Along with Umberto Lenzi's splatter-varnished epic 'Cannibal Ferox', and Michele Massimo Tarantini's grossly underrated 'Massacre in Dinosaur Valley', Martino's loomingly lurid, teeth-grindingly grisly 'The Mountain of the Cannibal God' heroically scales the vertiginous heights of high-altitude horror hysteria, and the groovily gutsy score by majestic music maestro's Guido & Maurizio De Angelis is sure to get the B-Movie blood pumping! 

 












 

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