Slave of the Cannibal God
A woman travels into the New Guinea jungle searching for her missing husband and joins an expedition that stumbles into tribal territory, ritual violence and a cannibal cult. Sergio Martino mixes jungle adventure, exploitation spectacle and gruesome shocks in one of the most famous pre-holocaust cannibal-cycle titles.
Film details
| Original / alt title | La montagna del dio cannibale; Prisoner of the Cannibal God; Mountain of the Cannibal God; Slave of the Cannibal God |
| Year | 1978 |
| Director | Sergio Martino |
| Country | Italy |
| Runtime | Approx. 102 min |
| Main cast | Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina |
UK status
On the DPP 72 under the alternate title “Prisoner of the Cannibal God.” It was dropped rather than becoming one of the final 39 successful prosecutions.
Passed 18 with cuts to real animal-cruelty footage.
Why it caused controversy
UK censorship / Video Nasties history
A quick status check first, followed by the film’s censorship timeline. A DPP prosecution was an obscenity case against a particular video publication — it was not automatically the same thing as a permanent nationwide “ban”.
Detailed censorship timeline & facts
FACTS & TRIVIA
- The film is also widely known as Mountain of the Cannibal God.
- Ursula Andress gives the film unusual star value compared with many exploitation titles of the era.
- Director Sergio Martino worked across giallo, horror, sci-fi and exploitation cinema.
- The film belongs to the Italian cannibal-adventure wave that helped shape later nastier entries.
- Its UK nasty-era identity is tied to the DPP title “Prisoner of the Cannibal God.”
- Modern releases often note or alter the animal-cruelty material.
Distributor / VHS label
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