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A plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, and its passengers must battle their way through cannibals, slave traders, wild animals and murderous piranha fish to safety.
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A passenger aircraft crashes in to the Brazilian rainforest . The survivors realise they're many miles from civilisation and their only hope of rescue is if they trek out of the rainforest . They begin the trek only to find out the dangers facing them are many I came in to this film knowing it was going to be sleazy exploitation . What becomes clear while watching it is that it has a slightly better look and production value than you normally see in this type of movie . It also has a tongue in cheek sense of humour and you could see this being a mainstream Hollywood movie featuring Sylvester Stallone or Harrison Ford or even Tom Selleck leading a group of annoying characters out of a jungle . Having an archaeologist does mean you've got an Indiana Jones inspired movie This is an exploitation film with a mainstream feel . The difference is that there's little thought given to events that happen on screen being given much consequence later on in the movie . For example a female character is raped and yet the next day she shows little trauma at her ordeal . This type of sexual violence is typical of the exploitation genre and leads to dismissal from a mainstream audience . It's also a dumb movie featuring a lack of internal continuity where a minor character gets killed by a school of piranha but when the hero enters the water all the killer fish seem to have miraculously disappeared In short this is a dumb exploitation film that will have little appeal to anyone who doesn't like the genre . That said it has better production values than most of its peers and the gore is fairly restrained which gives the film a relatively mainstream feel
There isn't much to be said for "Dinosaur Valley" (aka "Cannibal Ferox 2") with the exception of some lovely young ladies who spend a good deal of the film naked and on the run. A plane carrying some truly oddball passengers, including the film's fossil-hunting hero Kevin and several scantily clad models, crashes in the Brazilian jungle. For those who survive, it is a fight to get back to civilization, through pirhanas, jungle animals, flesh-eating pigs, cannibals and a slaver who is running an illegal mining operation. The film is wildly overacted and the dialogue atrocious, but the location photography is noteworthy and the ladies are the kind all heterosexual men dream of. The film verges on camp, so you might as well laugh along with it. The gore quotient is so-so, the few special effects pathetic.
Even in the world of Italian cannibal exploitica, 'Massacre in Dinosaur Valley' is z-grade dross. If you are so inclined, you can enjoy a couple of strapping, greased-up muscleboys wrestling in a bar; live cockfighting; piranha attacks; occasional cannibalism; a weird tribal ritual involving grass skirts and Halloween 'spooky-hands'; and copious amounts of completely unnecessary female nudity, stripping, girl-on-girl action, and the usual titillating 'rape' scenes. The weird drunken Thai hooker lady-boy in the Frank-N-Furter costume who spends most of the movie swigging from a bottle and laughing hysterically at nothing at all is particularly noteworthy.Unfortunately, the whole thing isn't quite so bad as to give it that laugh-out loud quality of vintage Hershell Gordon Lewis. Nor does it have the irony or sheer balls of early John Waters. A curiosity, to be sure, and the whole thing tries terribly hard to shock, but ultimately succeeds in providing nothing more than soft-core titillation for only the most undiscerning of viewers.
Nudo E Selvaggio, or it's more common title of Massacre In Dinosaur Valley, starts with Professor Ibanez & his daughter Eva (Suzane Carvalho as Susane Carvall) arriving at their hotel somewhere in Brazil in preparation for their trip to 'Dinaosaur Valley' situated deep in the Amazon jungle. Our hero Kevin Hall (Micheal Sopkiw) an American paleontologist from Boston University is also staying there. Hall becomes aware of the planned excursion to Dinosaur Valley & manages to hitch a ride with them & the other passengers, an ex Vietnam vet named John (Milton Morris, take these credits with a pinch of salt because I'm relying on the IMDb as the film itself has no cast listed) & his wife Betty (Gloria Cristal) plus a photographer Robbie & his two fashion models Monica & Belinda (Marta Anderson). It's not long before the inevitable happens & their plane crashes in Dinosaur Valley leaving them stranded, Professor Ibanez, Monica & the pilot are killed in the crash. Everyone else decides to try & make it back to civilisation on foot, unfortunately for them as they encounter piranha's, snakes & quicksand the immediate area is infested with a tribe of cannibals...This Italian & Brazilian co-production was co-written & directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini as Michael E. Lemick & I thought Nudo E Salvaggio was at the bottom of the cannibal/jungle/adventure scale, right at the bottom. The script by Tarantini & an uncredited Dardando Sacchetti doesn't make much sense & mixes it's genres about with little success. Don't expect an Italian gore fest because it ain't going to happen. Nudo E Selvaggio for the most part focuses on the adventure aspects as Sopkiw & co. try to escape the perils of the Amazonian jungle, it all moves along at a fair pace but I never found myself particularly involved or excited by it. The characters are as clichéd & stereotypical as you can imagine, a fashion model to provide the looks & nudity, a deranged Vietnam vet to be the antagonist, the American hero & a pretty girl whom fall in love with each other, the bad guy etc. etc. you know what I mean. There is only one brief scene of cannibalism of any description so don't be fooled by the alternate title of Cannibal Ferox 2 as this has nothing to do with Lenzi's film. The dubbing & dialogue throughout Nudo E Selvaggio is very poor even by Euro exploitation standards, obviously this doesn't help the films credibility. There are a few scenes of gore but nothing too nasty, some quick intestine eating, a cut breast, an eaten to the bone leg & an impaling with a spear & machete, actually I found Nudo E Selvaggio quite tame. For the animal lovers there is also a cockfight at the start so beware. The rape, nudity & breast quotient is much higher although this in no way makes up for Nudo E Selvaggio's short comings, of which there are many. Obviously filmed on location presumably in the Amazon (I'd imagine one jungle looks pretty much like any other) Nudo E Selvaggio looks good for this reason alone even if director Tarantini fails miserably to capture any sort of atmosphere or create any tension. As a whole Nudo E Selvaggio looks cheap & nasty all the way through, just check out the awful plane crash sequence. The music score for Nudo E Selvaggio is either taken or was stolen from Blastfighter (1984) also starring Sopkiw believe it or not. The acting is pretty bad & the terrible dubbing doesn't help, having said that Sopkiw makes for a likable hero. Overall I didn't exactly hate it but I didn't exactly like it either, at only just over 80 minutes it's not too much of a chore to sit through but I doubt I'll be watching it again anytime soon. Average at best, just about worth a watch if your a Euro exploitation fan otherwise stay well clear. One more thing this film features no Dinosaurs whatsoever, the English title only refers to a geographical area.
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