Comments on: Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)

By: Felicity

Felicity — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:08:58 +0000

Matthew, The Creature Wasn't Nice, a vague parody of Alien that starred Leslie Nielsen, was retitled Spaceship! after Airplane! came out, then Naked Space after The Naked Gun.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:36:56 +0000

So if Ursula Andress dyed her hair black, then she’d be attractive?

And did something about her beady little eyes, maybe.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:22:19 +0000

(Of course, the movie was called Naked Space, not the thrift store.)

By: Felicity

Felicity — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:21:29 +0000

So if Ursula Andress dyed her hair black, then she'd be attractive? I found a movie at a thrift store called Naked Space, which was a loose parody of Alien featuring Leslie Nielsen, among others. After doing some research, I found out it was originally called The Creature Wasn't Nice, then renamed to Spaceship! to market it as being similar to Airplane!, then renamed Naked Space to market it as being similar to The Naked Gun. I wouldn't say that it was anywhere close to the same style as Airplane! or The Naked Gun, and the cover featured Nielsen primarily even though his character wasn't the focus of the movie. (The ship's janitor, played by the writer/director/composer, had more screen time.) I enjoyed the movie, especially the big musical number, but I'll bet some people were disappointed that it was a lot more laid-back than a wacky Zucker/Abrams joke-machine.

By: MatthewF

MatthewF — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:13:59 +0000

I love the posters and video boxes for this one, especially the top one which blatantly tries to sell you that it’s a Raiders clone. I’m always impressed by the oppotunism of film makers who take a rip off of one film and subsequently sell it as a rip off of another when that becomes more saleable.

Having said that, I believe that Asylum sometimes do this mid-production.

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:05:57 +0000

I’m kind of in the same boat as you with Ursula Andress. She is purty, but I don’t find her to be incredibly beautiful (there are few blondes that I find simply drop-dead gorgeous).

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:09:16 +0000

I’m surprised the Python started eating it while it was alive, even when I fed them dead mice, my snakes always “killed” them again before eating.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:53:22 +0000

I don’t know that the scenes were seen as an entertainment draw, even then; I would guess that they were included in the earlier cannibal films to add realism to balance out the rubbery, fakey look of the FX on the humans. (They were added in the later ones because of monkey-see, monkey-do.)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:46:25 +0000

A warning might be a good idea.
I guess what bothers me more than the animal deaths is the idea that watching an animal die was considered to be entertainment in the 70s/early 80s – I cant even imagine the reactions such a film would get today if shown in a cinema.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:28:04 +0000

Maybe I’ll include a warning ahead of it.

Actually, what’s most intriguing about that scene is that, once in the snake’s mouth, the monkey acts deliberate, not frantic, as he tries to figure a way to get out. “Well! A disconcerting situation we have here…”