Pure exploitation, not caring about who or what they lie about. The people and land of India and Sri Lanka passed off as Papuan, which is about as believable as passing Swedes off as Arabs. Different hair, different skin color, different faces.
This film has the usual nonsense about so called primitives somehow both worshipping white people as gods and also wanting to kill them. Ursula Andress has never looked so unappealing. In the jungle she somehow stays pasty and unhealthy looking, and with her eyebrows shaved off, alien.
And it's just a bad dull confused film that bombed, with cartoon violence that has obvious glowing red paint we are supposed to believe is blood. From reviews of the time:
Allmovie-"a graphic and unpleasant film, with all the noxious trademarks intact: gratuitous violence, real-life atrocities committed against live animals and an uncomfortably imperialist attitude towards underprivileged peoples."
Popcorn Pictures- "Mountain of the Cannibal God merely goes through the usual Italian cannibal exploitation film motions."
Daily Grindhouse-"problematic imperialist attitudes towards indigenous populations".
This film has the usual nonsense about so called primitives somehow both worshipping white people as gods and also wanting to kill them. Ursula Andress has never looked so unappealing. In the jungle she somehow stays pasty and unhealthy looking, and with her eyebrows shaved off, alien.
And it's just a bad dull confused film that bombed, with cartoon violence that has obvious glowing red paint we are supposed to believe is blood. From reviews of the time:
Allmovie-"a graphic and unpleasant film, with all the noxious trademarks intact: gratuitous violence, real-life atrocities committed against live animals and an uncomfortably imperialist attitude towards underprivileged peoples."
Popcorn Pictures- "Mountain of the Cannibal God merely goes through the usual Italian cannibal exploitation film motions."
Daily Grindhouse-"problematic imperialist attitudes towards indigenous populations".