Mountain of the Cannibal God aka Slave of the Cannibal God is a very good Italian Cannibal film. It has a good cast (no one seemed to annoy me to bad) and some pretty good acting, though i did not really like the score to much. I saw the uncut version so that is the one i will be commenting on. The story is about a woman and her brother who are traveling to the jungle in search of her husband who went missing. Along the way they run into a man who tells them that he knew her husband, and that he was most likely in search of a "cursed" mountain on an island near the jungle. So they set of in search of this mountain, only to find it is inhabited by a tribe of ruthless cannibals. Like most Italian cannibal movies, there are real animals being killed throughout, so if that bothers you, stay away. Most of the gore is saved until the end of the film, and it is also less brutal and gory than most other cannibal films. There is also a very strange mass sex orgy amongst the cannibals, which includes someone having sex with a water buffalo! Almost all of the animal violence and some of the human violence, including the castration scene, were completely ripped off, re-edited, and thrown into Umberto Lenzi's much less effective cannibal movie Eaten Alive. I give Mountain of the Cannibal God a 7/10 for any Italian cannibal fans like myself, but if not, make that a 6/10. I prefer Deodato's far-superior films, Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Holocaust.
Review of Slave of the Cannibal God
