Mondo Cannibale

Mondo Cannibale
Directed by	Jesús Franco
Produced by	Marius Lesoeur Franco Prosperi
Written by	Jesús Franco
Starring	Al Cliver Sabrina Siani Shirley Knight
Music by	Roberto Pregadio
Cinematography	Luis Colombo Juan Soler
Distributed by	Blue Underground
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	90 minutes

Mondo Cannibale (also known as Cannibals and White Cannibal Queen and Barbarian Goddess) is a 1980 cannibal film by prolific Spanish exploitation director Jesús Franco which starred a 17-year-old Sabrina Siani . It is one of two cannibal films directed by Franco starring Al Cliver, the other being Man Hunter (aka Devil Hunter, aka Sexo Canibal).

Mondo Cannibale is considered even by Franco himself to be the worst cannibal film ever made, due to its slow pacing, bad acting, terrible special effects and awful camera work. An uncut DVD was released by Blue Underground. The DVD features an interview with Jesús Franco and the French theatrical trailer. Franco said in the interview that he only did the two cannibal films for the money, and admitted he had no idea why anyone would want to watch them. He said that Sabrina Siani was the worst actress he ever worked with in his life (next only to Romina Power).

The film is notable for the fact that it shares an amount of footage with 'Cannibal Terror' (1981). While many sources suggest that Franco's footage was 'borrored' for 'Cannibal Terror', a closer examination reveals that there are more connections than this between the two films. Both films share a number of locations, cast, and even dubbing actors. Some connections which suggest more than a mere borrowing of footage are:

Sabrina Siani is the eponymous White Cannibal Queen of 'Mondo Cannibale', and also appears (as a fully clothed adult) in a bar scene in 'Cannibal Terror'. Several shots of the dancing cannibal tribe in their village are common to both films, and several shots appear only in one or the other. One actor with a very distinctive face and large Mick Jagger type of mouth is seen in 'Cannibal Terror' in no less than three roles (two cannibals and one border guard) and is also quite visible as one of the cannibals devouring Al Cliver's wife in 'Mondo Cannibale'.

Of course, in addition are the obvious cast parallels of Olivier Mathot, Antonio Mayans, both of whom have starring roles in both films.

Plot

The film follows a fathers attempt to rescue his teenage daughter from a tribe of man eating primitives who have made her their queen.

External links

• Mondo cannibale at the Internet Movie Database