Jesus Franco's take on this epic genre and my favourite but I must see he didn't put any effort into it. He himself admits that he hates the genre so much but like all Italians he only did it for the money. And he also made in the process Devil Hunter with the demon like cannibal but like a lot my favourite of this
genre was Cannibal Ferox or Eaten Alive. Jesus Franco's women in prison films are a major turn on with under 16s girls having sex with each other and be beaten by ever cunt that walks past of course. I am talking about Cell Block 16 of course.
Doctor Taylor, his wife Elizabeth and their teenage daughter Lana go to an isolated hospital in the Brazilian jungle, close to the Amazon River, they are attacked by savages and he sees them kill and eat his wife, and abduct the girl. Taylor manages to get back to civilization, but he needs psychiatric help; only Doctor Ana believes his story about cannibals, and takes the risk of going with him and a few rich people who can pay for a safari in the remote jungle. The cannibals decimate a number of the safari members in a succession of attacks, and only Taylor, the sexy lady doctor, and a photograph, rich the cannibal tribe - only to discover that she is now the wife of the tribe leader, and considered a goddess.
So were to start? First of all a lot of these cannibal flicks should surely start off or in major cities so we can see the link between our societies and there's. You know tall buildings and then the jungle like in Cannibal holocaust or any others, it just dulled down the film no seeing anything of ours. So in any case the story is bad and the worst for any cannibal film. The acting is terrible Al Clive the greatest actor on earth puts on a good performance besides the horrid dubbing and sounds so really all stale as hell.
Jesus Franco has no direction because he doesn't know what he is doing with the awful camera work and shots of the jungle, but some entertaining flesh eating scenes and violence despite the bad special effects that look very rubber like. Blue Underground should be ashamed. I guess I liked the ending and some of the soundtrack.
Here are some facts I found
The film was shot shortly after Terreur cannibale (1981), and used many of the same sets.
The version titled "Mondo Cannibale 3" was signed by Jesus Franco as Clifford Brown, supposedly an homage to the real Clifford Brown, a jazz trumpeter.
In a DVD interview for Sexo Canibal, Jess Franco says that he hated the cannibal genre, and after his two cannibal films, he would never shoot another, as it was just a popular phase of cinema with the directors Umberto Lenzi and Ruggero Deodato.
Overall not the worst cannibal film but still very bad and my final verdict is see his erotic girls prison movies or Devil Hunter.
September 17, 2010
