Information
| Year: | 1980 |
| Rating: | 6.1(15200) |
| Listed in: | Adventure, Drama, Horror |
| Directed by: | Ruggero Deodato |
| Actors: | Robert Kerman Perry Pirkanen Luca Barbareschi Salvatore Basile Ricardo Fuentes Francesca Ciardi |
| "Ripout! Barbeque! Devour! How long can you take it?" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Ruggero Deodato | |
| Actors | |
| Robert Kerman | as Harold Monroe |
| Perry Pirkanen | as Jack Anders |
| Luca Barbareschi | as Mark Tomaso |
| Salvatore Basile | as Chaco Losojos |
| Ricardo Fuentes | as Felipe Ocanya |
| Carl Gabriel Yorke | as Alan Yates |
| Paolo Paoloni | as Chief NY Executive |
| Lionello Pio Di Savoia | as Executive |
| Ruggero Deodato | as Man Outside University |
| Edward Mannix | as Harold Monroe |
| Enrico Papa | as TV Show Host |
| Gregory Snegoff | as TV Show Host |
| Actresses | |
| Francesca Ciardi | as Faye Daniels |
| Luigina Rocchi | as Native |
| Lucia Costantini | as Adulteress |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Spanish |
| Filming dates: | 4 June 1979 - 28 July 1979 |
| Budget: | USD 100,000 |
| Gross: |
Spain - 133,432,635 ESP (31 August 1999) |
| Plot: | The director Alan Yates and his crew, formed by Faye Daniels, Jack Anders and Mark Tomaso, head to a rain forest in Amazonas called Green Inferno to shoot a documentary about the primitive tribes of cannibals that live in the area. They vanish and the American anthropologist Professor Harold Monroe travels to the area with the experienced guide Chaco Losojos and his assistant Miguel to seek the team out. The trio is received first by the Yacumo tribe of warriors and then they approach to the wild Yamamomo that is in a permanent war against the Shamatari. They find the remains of the documentary team and their reels, and they successfully negotiate with the savages. Back in New York, Professor Monroe watches the disturbing footage and discovers the fate of the team. |
View Online
Tags
Goofs
|
Miscellaneous: When Faye has got a spider on her shoulder, she is screaming and talking at the same time. Revealing mistakes: When the cannibals kill Faye, they cut of her head and one of them holds the head up. At that time a wig drops of from the fake head, revealing a yellow foam head underneath the wig. CHAR: The "muskrat" Miguel kills in the film is not a muskrat at all. It's a coatimundi, a type of animal closely related to the raccoons. Continuity: Near the beginning, a soldier Oliveira is killed by a poison dart, but he is seen standing behind the lieutenant when Professor Monroe flies in. CHAR: After the "Last Road to Hell" sequence, the female executive tells Professor Monroe that the footage was "all a put-on" and "there was no enemy army approaching," referring to the fact that the soldiers shown in the film were all acting. The Last Road to Hell sequence is made up completely of execution footage, with no soldiers acting or enemy army approaching at any time. This is because originally in the script, the sequence consisted of Vietnamese rebels firing at approaching troops, but execution footage from Nigeria was used instead. Continuity: At the very beginning, during the television exclusive on the missing film makers, there is a shot of the group by a seaplane, where the introduce their guide. Mark is to the far right, doing maintenance on his camera (so it's shut off). However, when Professor Monroe views the team's film reels, one of the reels shows that same scene as shot by Mark on his camera. This would be impossible since Mark was shown working on his camera in the first shot. Continuity: When the cannibals begin to mutilate Jack, his pants are down to his ankles (as to castrate him). However, once they lay him on the ground, his pants are pulled back up. Revealing mistakes: The skin colored plastic trash bags holding in Jack's fake torso and organs are visible when the cannibals disembowel him. SYNC: The dub for Professor Monroe is obviously out of sync when he speaks into his tape recorder at the Yanomamo village. Continuity: When the crew first find the impaled native girl, her legs hang down limply, but in later shots her legs are crossed at the ankles. Fact errors: When the jungle guide is bitten by the snake in his boot it is said to be poisonous, but it is a red-tail boa constrictor which is not poison and uses constriction to kill its prey. Revealing mistakes: During the impalement scene, careful analysis shows not only that the lower portion of the "stick" is perfectly smooth and straight versus the portion through her mouth is rough and somewhat jagged, like an actual tree limb, but that the two pieces do not line up correctly - the lower portion would be exiting through her eye sockets. |
Quotes
|
[last lines] Professor Harold Monroe: I wonder who the real cannibals are. Chaco Losojos: In there, the more you carry, the quicker you get tired, the sooner you die. Alan Yates: Oh, good Lord! It's unbelievable. It's horrible. I can't understand the reason for such cruelty. It probably has something to do with some bizarre sexual rage with the almost profound respect these primitives have for virginity. Chaco Losojos: They just want to show us they are brave warriors. And they want us to follow them to the village. Professor Harold Monroe: Follow them? Chaco Losojos: Yeah, to return the prisoner, and to talk. Professor Harold Monroe: Hey listen, I-I don't know about this. I think they want us for dinner tonight. Female TV Executive: Today people want sensationalism; the more you rape their senses the happier they are. Professor Harold Monroe: Ah, yes, that's typical western thought. Civilised isn't it? That's what Alan thought and that's why he's dead. The Yacumo Indian is a primitive and he has to be respected as such. You know, did you ever think of the Yacumo point of view? That we might be the savages? Professor Harold Monroe: Yes, yes, that is precisely what I want. I've seen the rest of the material, you haven't. You haven't seen the stuff that even your editors didn't have the stomach to put together, and if you had, you wouldn't hesitate but to agree with me. Chaco Losojos: [while examining a corpse] Hey, professor! I recognize these teeth. This is Felipe Ocanya. He knew the jungle as well as I do. Professor Harold Monroe: That makes me feel terrific. Chaco Losojos: You did it goddamnit! They've just invited us to dinner! Professor Harold Monroe: They what? Alan Yates: Here we are at the edge of the world of human history. Things like this happen all the time in the jungle; it's survival of the fittest! In the jungle, it's the daily violence of the strong overcoming the weak! Jack! Alan Yates: We really screwed ourselves this time, trying to, trying to stay there for the last shot. I don't even know where we are now, but I know, they... I know they, uh, followed us, and, and we lost everything trying to escape. We're screwed! We're trapped! Alan Yates: [Faye, Alan's fiance, is being carried away by the Yanomanos] Faye! Faye! Mark Tomasso: [Simultaneously screaming at each other] Did you see it, Alan? She's had it! We gotta think of ourselves! Alan Yates: No! We gotta get her outta there! I want to save her! Mark Tomasso: We gotta get the film back home, Alan! Alan Yates: I wanna save her! Mark Tomasso: Think of the film, Alan, think of the film! Alan Yates: I don't give a shit about it! [cuts away] Professor Harold Monroe: Would you like people to make money off your misery? [first lines] Reporter: Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism. Alan Yates: [while filming a burning hut full of terrified natives] It's beautiful! Professor Harold Monroe: [voice over] We weren't able to get anything out of the Yanomamo except for the wristwatch they gave us as a token of their gratitude to an ally, an ally they continue to fear and mistrust, so I've decided to try an experiment in psychology: to strip myself completely, clothes, weapons, dog tags, rings, everything, to become like them, naked and unfettered as Adam. Faye Daniels: [while Jack is filming a rape] Jack, what do you want to use this for, a porno film? Stupid men! Alan Yates: That's not a bad idea! How about "Jungle Jollies"? |
Comments
No comments yet.
