More total bullshit to throw on in the background while I grind around the World of Ruin in Final Fantasy VI. Alright, so the name of this one is "Mountain of the Cannibal God" in Italy, "Slave of the Cannibal God" in America, and "Prisoner of the Cannibal God" in the UK. The latter two are almost synonymous, but the English title makes perfect sense whereas the American one absolutely doesn't; there are cannibals in this movie, sure, and they live in a mountain, yes, and they take plenty of prisoners, who they later eat, but slaves? No, no slaves. Part of me thinks the "slave" portion of the name was added in order to sexify and kink up the title for American audiences in 1978. There's nudity here, and sex, and even sex with an animal! Yeah, this one cannibal just starts, no shit, fucking a giant pig toward the end. Why?
Speaking of animals, that's really the only part of this that merits any discussion. There's a lot of animal-on-animal violence in this movie, between a snake eating a monkey and a hawk fighting another snake and a lizard at one point getting his belly slit open. (Okay fine, that last one was human on animal violence.) And given that this was the 1970s, not to mention an Italian production, there's absolutely no reason to believe these weren't the kind of animal fights that handlers behind the scenes would be setting up. Unless this is like Terrence Malick or Planet Earth, where the animal violence is just found footage. (But then, no, a dude slitting a lizard's belly open is in no way "found footage.")
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