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During the confusion, Laura escapes into the jungle, but runs straight into the arms of the island's natives, who offer her up to their god.
Franco directs in his usual torpid style and loads this laughable effort with his usual dreadful trademarks: crap gore, murky cinematography, rapid zooms, numerous crotch shots, out of focus imagery, awful sound effects, and ham-fisted editing.
The result is a dire mess that is a real struggle to sit through from start to finish (It took me a couple of sittings to finish the thing), and even the sight of the luscious Buchfellner in all of her natural glory ain't enough to make me revisit this film in a hurry.
How can you tell that a horror movie is terrible?
when you can't stop laughing about it of course!
The plot has been well covered by other reviewers, so I'll just add a few things on the hilarity of it all.
Some reviews have placed the location in South America, others in Africa, I thought it was in some random island in the Pacific.
Where exactly does this take place, seems to be a mystery.
The cannibal tribe is conformed by a couple of black women some black men, and a man who looks like a young Frank Zappa banging the drums...
the Devil God is a large black man with a terrible case of pink eyes.
One of the "freakiest" moments in the film is when, "Pablito" find his partner hanging from a tree covered in what seems to be an orange substance that I assume is blood, starts screaming for minutes on and on (that's actually funny), and then the head of his partner falls in the ground and "Pablito" kicks it a bit for what I assume is "shits n' giggles" and the eyes actually move...
But, of course, then the "freak" is gone when you realize the eyes moved because the movie is just bad...
I hadn't laughed like this in a loooong while, and I definitely recommend this film for a Sunday afternoon with your friends and you have nothing to do...
grab a case of beers and start watching this film, you'll love it!
If you are looking for a real horror or gore movie, though...
don't' bother.
A model named Laura is working in South America when she is kidnapped from her hotel room by a gang and taken into the jungle.
They demand a huge ransom for her release.
Peter is hired to get her home safe and there is a bonus in it for him if he can bring back the money as well as the girl.
Peter is taken to the jungle by helicopter with friend Jack.
They try to give the kidnappers fake money in return for Laura but the plan goes horribly wrong and they have to bail out in the helicopter.
The helicopter is shot and they also have to bail from that (not going well so far).
Also roaming the jungles is a devil of sorts.
In reality its just a naked black guy with weirdly big eyes and a breathing problem.
He starts to kill a few of the kidnappers and Laura escapes only to be captured by some primitives.
The rest of the film is a bit of a blur really.
Now I'm not a massive Jess Franco fan, in fact to date this is only the second film of his I have seen, but even I can tell that this really isn't one of his best efforts.
The films drags along at a pretty slow pace without much at all happening.
The whole thing could have been edited down quite easily into a 25 minute TV show.
There are plenty of overly long shots of people walking through the jungle that could have just been lifted straight out.
Devil Hunter is poorly lit (Infact I don't think it was lit at all), badly dubbed, poorly acted and slow yet for some reason it didn't bore me.
I think the main reason for this was some of the hilariously bad scenes in it.
For example a scene where Laura is walking in the street was obviously shot in a real street as crowds of people stop to stare straight at the camera as its shooting.
Another funny scene has one of the gang who has been killed, hung in a tree dripping blood as one of his friends stands directly under him screaming for what seems like minutes.
Then for no reason at all the man in the trees head just falls of and hits the guy under him.
It has to be seen to be believed.
Then of course there is the actual devil.
It is just some naked black guy who despite the fact he has massive eyes, he has very blurry vision.
The film was hooked up in part of the video nasty scare in the 80's here in the UK and was banned.
Now why it was I have no idea.
There is very little gore at all and it's hardly a shocking film.
Minus the nudity I would have said that it could get away with a PG almost.
The only thing I can think of is that it was never actually watched and was added to the original list because of word of mouth.
There is not much reason to watch this film really unless you are a massive Jess Franco fan.
There is plenty of nudity to keep you from falling asleep and also some scenes that are so bad you can have a good laugh at them but other wise I would say just pay for a ticket to South America and get lost in a jungle.
It would probably be more fun.
3/10
An actress making a movie in Africa is kidnapped and taken into the jungle where she is held for ransom.
The producer hires some one to go and bring her back.
Complicating everything are the cannibals in the jungle who worship a really ugly looking "god" who likes to eat naked women.
This is a gory sleazy movie.
There is copious amounts of nudity and violence, not to mention violence against nude people.
Its an exploitation film designed to appeal to the deepest darkest parts of our being, and if the movie wasn't so boring this film would be a classic.
Lets face it, despite the gore, the nasty sex and abuse,and the ugly monster this movie is a snoozer.
The pacing is all off kilter and it puts you out.
There are multiple plot lines that all seem to be happening separately from each other, even though its ultimately all one story.
Worst of all, almost no one says anything.
Most of the minimal dialog concerns the cruelty or one characters protestations that "I'll do what I want."
Its such a quiet and dull movie that if it weren't for the frequent screams of the victims I'd recommend this as a sleep aide.
This is a movie to avoid unless you need sleep, or unless you need to see every Euro-cannibal movie.
(An aside.
VideoAsia just released this as part of their Terror Tales series.
Their print is oddly letter-boxed which looks to be the result of taking their print from a Japanese source (there is fogging) that was cropped to remove the subtitles.
Their print also has no opening titles)
or anyone who was praying for the sight of Al Cliver wrestling a naked, 7ft tall black guy into a full nelson, your film has arrived!
Film starlet Laura Crawford (Ursula Buchfellner) is kidnapped by a group who demand the ransom of $6 million to be delivered to their island hideaway.
What they don't count on is rugged Vietnam vet Peter Weston (Cliver) being hired by a film producer to save the girl.
And what they really didn't count on was a local tribe that likes to offer up young women to their monster cannibal god with bloodshot bug eyes.
Pretty much the same filming set up as CANNIBALS, this one fares a bit better when it comes to entertainment value, thanks mostly a hilarious dub track and the impossibly goofy monster with the bulging eyes (Franco confirms they were split ping pong balls on the disc's interview).
Franco gets a strong EuroCult supporting cast including Gisela Hahn (CONTAMINATION) and Werner Pochath (whose death is one of the most head-scratching things I ever seen as a guy who is totally not him is shown - in close up - trying to be him).
The film features tons of nudity and the gore (Tempra paint variety) is there.
The highlight for me was the world's slowly fistfight between Cliver and Antonio de Cabo in the splashing waves.
Sadly, ol' Jess pads this one out to an astonishing (and, at times, agonizing) 1 hour and 40 minutes when it should have run 80 minutes tops.
For the most part, the Severin DVD looks pretty nice but there are some odd ghosting images going on during some of the darker scenes.
Also, one long section of dialog is in Spanish with no subs (they are an option, but only when you listen to the French track).
Franco gives a nice 16- minute interview about the film and has much more pleasant things to say about Buchfellner than his CANNIBALS star Sabrina Siani.
Devil Hunter gained notoriety for the fact that it's on the DPP 'Video Nasty' list, but it really needn't have been.
Many films on the list where there for God (and DPP) only known reasons, and while this isn't the tamest of the bunch;
there isn't a lot here that warrants banning...
which is a shame because I never would have sat through it where it not for the fact that it's on 'the shopping list.'
The plot actually gives the film a decent base - or at least more of a decent base than most cannibal films - and it follows an actress who is kidnapped and dragged off into the Amazon jungle.
A hunter is then hired to find her, but along the way he has to brave the natives, lead by a man who calls himself "The Devil" (hence the title).
The film basically just plods along for eighty five minutes and there really aren't many scenes of interest.
It's a real shame that Jess Franco ended up making films like this because the man clearly has talent;
as seen by films such as The Diabolical Dr Z, Venus in Furs, Faceless and She Kills in Ecstasy, but unfortunately his good films are just gems amongst heaps of crap and Devil Hunter is very much a part of the crap.
I saw this film purely because I want to be able to say I've seen everything on the DPP's list (just two more to go!), and I'm guessing that's why most other people who have seen it, saw it.
But if you're not on the lookout for Nasties;
there really is no reason to bother with this one.
This film seemed way too long even at only 75 minutes.
The problem with jungle horror films is that there is always way too much footage of people walking (through the jungle, up a rocky cliff, near a river or lake) to pad out the running time.
The film is worth seeing for the laughable and naked native zombie with big bulging, bloody eyes which is always accompanied on the soundtrack with heavy breathing and lots of reverb.
Eurotrash fans will be plenty entertained by the bad English dubbing, gratuitous female flesh and very silly makeup jobs on the monster and native extras.
For a zombie/cannibal flick this was pretty light on the gore but then I probably didn't see an uncut version.
Sexo Cannibal, or Devil Hunter as it's more commonly known amongst English speaking audiences, starts with actress & model Laura Crawford (Ursula Buchfellner as Ursula Fellner) checking out locations for her new film along with her assistant Jane (Gisela Hahn).
After a long days work Laura is relaxing in the bath of her room when two very dubious character's named Chris (Werner Pochath) & Thomas (Antonio Mayans) burst in & kidnap her having been helped by the treacherous Jane.
Laura's agent gets on the blower to rent-a-hero Peter Weston (Al Cliver) who is informed of the situation, the kidnappers have Laura on an isolated island & are demanding a 6 million ransom.
Peter is told that he will be paid 200,000 to get her back safely & a further 10% of the 6 million if he brings that back as well, faster than a rat up a drain pipe Peter & his Vietnam Vet buddy helicopter pilot Jack are on the island & deciding on how to save Laura.
So, the kidnappers have Laura & Peter has the 6 million but neither want to hand them over that much.
Just to complicate things further this particular isolated island is home to a primitive tribe (hell, in all the generations they've lived there they've only managed to build one straw hut, now that's primitive) who worship some cannibal monster dude (Burt Altman) with bulging eyes as a God with human sacrifices & this cannibal has a liking for young, white female flesh & intestines...
This Spanish, French & German co-production was co-written & directed by the prolific Jesus Franco who also gets the credit for the music as well.