SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD (1978) – Episode 246 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“That’s right! You don’t forget the taste of human flesh!” Umm… taking your word for that one. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr– as they take a jungle safari with Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in Sergio Martino’s Slave of the Cannibal God (1978).

Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 246 – Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)

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Synopsis: A woman is aided by her brother, a professor, and an explorer as they search the jungles of New Guinea for her anthropologist husband, who vanished near a mountain that is said to be cursed.

• Director: Sergio Martino
• Writers: Cesare Frugoni and Sergio Martino
• Selected Cast:
  • Ursula Andress as Susan Stevenson
  • Stacy Keach as Professor Edward Foster
  • Claudio Cassinelli as Manolo
  • Antonio Marsina as Arthur Weisser
  • Franco Fantasia as Father Moses
  • Lanfranco Spinola as Consul Burns
  • Carlo Longhi as Phil – The Pilot
  • Luigina Rocchi as Puka Body Painter #1
  • Akushula Selayah as Sura (credited as Akushla Sellajaah)
  • Dudley Wanaguru as Government Officer

It’s summertime, so it must also be time for a cannibal movie! That’s not actually a thing, but what the heck. Decades of Horror has covered two or three of them on its 1980s podcast, so why not on the 1970s? Don’t answer that. Directed by Sergio Martino and starring Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, and Claudio Cassinelli, Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) unfortunately features one of this Italian subgenre’s common tropes, animal cruelty. To add to its questionable content, bestiality and graphic sexual content are depicted. On the other hand (we know, we know), this film is well-made, well-shot, and well-acted with the actors performing all of their own stunts. This one isn’t for everyone, but that’s why we watch ‘em. So you don’t have to, but only if you don’t want to.

At the time of this writing, Slave of the Cannibal God (1978) is available to stream from Wicked Horror TV and Classic Horror Movie Channel as Mountain of the Cannibal God, as well as Tubi and PlutoTV. The film is also available on physical media from Severin Films as either a 4K UHD or a Blu-ray formatted disc. [NOTE: The version on Tubi is cut by roughly 8.5 minutes. The length on Tubi is 1:34:31, while the length on the Severin DVD, Wicked Horror TV, and Classic Horror Movie Channel is 1:43.]

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next ‘70s episode, chosen by Doc, will be Crash! (1976), directed by Charles Band and starring Jose Ferrer, Sue Lyon, Leslie Parrish, and John Carradine with a cameo by Reggie Nalder. Did we mention there are a lot of crashes?

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