Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for her missing husband who went on an expedition deep into the jungles. There she gets no help from the authorities as the expedition was illegal. She entrusts the search to Professor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach) a man experienced in such situations and along with some natives they set off, soon though the natives are spooked by some bad omens and most run off, those that stay either disappear or are killed off one by one in one gruesome way or another. When they reach their destination they find it is protected by a mysterious cannibal tribe, long since presumed extinct, this is when their journey becomes real hell. Mountain of the Cannibal God is another hugely entertaining cannibal film, chock full of gore, nudity and gruesome killings, along with the usual controversial animal slayings. One such killing is the now infamous monkey/python scene, which it must be said is a little disturbing, Martino for his part claims that said scene was not scripted for the film but that it just happened, because the snake kept straying onto the set, so he had an idea to film it by luring it out with a monkey, the fact that the snake eats and crushes it was just a bad luck and he says he is rather ashamed he filmed it, he denies any forethought, closer scrutiny shows that the monkey was tethered and promptly pushed into the snakes mouth. Martino also claims that there were no extreme scenes or pornographic content and yet there are vivid scenes of female masturbation, rape, genital mutilation and bestiality, now none of these bother me in the slightest, what irks me though is Martino's blatant lying, I feel he should have the courage of his convictions and admit what he filmed, the evidence is there after all that contradicts his comments and its one of the reasons we love those damn Italians
