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Sexo Cannibal has gained a certain amount of notoriety here in the UK as it was placed on the 'Video Nasties' list in the early 80's under it's alternate Devil Hunter title & therefore officially classed as obscene & banned, having said that I have no idea why as it is one bad film & even Franco, who isn't afraid to be associated with a turkey, decides he wants to hide under the pseudonym of Clifford Brown.
I'd imagine even the most die-hard Franco fan would have a hard time defending this thing.
The script by Franco, erm sorry I mean Clifford Brown & Julian Esteban as Julius Valery who was obviously another one less than impressed with the finished product & wanted his named removed, is awful.
It's as simple & straight forward as that.
For a start the film is so boring it's untrue, the kidnap plot is one of the dullest I've ever seen without the slightest bit of tension or excitement involved & the horror side of things don't improve as we get a big black guy with stupid looking over-sized bloodshot eyes plus two tame cannibal scenes.
As a horror film Sexo Cannibal fails & as an action adventure it has no more success, this is one to avoid.
Director Franco shows his usual incompetence throughout, a decapitated head is achieved by an actor lying on the ground with large leaves placed around the bottom of his neck to try & give the impression it's not attached to anything!
The cannibal scenes are poor, the action is lame & it has endless scenes of people randomly walking around the jungle getting from 'A' to 'B' & not really doing anything when they get there either.
It becomes incredibly dull & tedious to watch after about 10 minutes & don't forget this thing goes on for 94 minutes in it's uncut state.
I also must mention the hilarious scene when Al Cliver is supposed to be climbing a cliff, this is achieved by Franco turning his camera on it's side & having Cliver crawl along the floor!
Just look at the way his coat hangs & the way he never grabs onto to anything as he just pulls himself along!
The gore isn't that great & as far as Euro cannibal films go this is very tame, there are some gross close ups of the cannibals mouth as it chews bits of meat, a man is impaled on spikes, there's some blood & a handful of intestines.
There's a fair bit of nudity in Sexo Cannibal & an unpleasant rape scene.
Sexo Cannibal must have had a low budget & I mean low.
This is a shoddy poorly made film with awful special effects & rock bottom production values.
The only decent thing about it is the jungle setting which at least looks authentic.
The music sucks & sound effects become annoying as there is lots of heavy breathing whenever the cannibal is on screen.
The acting sucks, the whole thing was obviously dubbed anyway but no one in this thing can act.
Sexo Cannibal is a terrible film that commits the fatal mistake of being as boring as hell.
The only good things I can say is that it has a certain sleazy atmosphere to it & those close ups of the cannibal chewing meat are pretty gross.
Anyone looking for a decent cinematic experience should give Sexo Cannibal as wide a berth as possible, one to avoid.
Not only is it a disgustingly made low-budget bad-acted movie, but the plot itself is just STUPID!!!
A mystic man that eats women?
(And by the looks, not virgin ones) Ridiculous!!!
If you´ve got nothing better to do (like sleeping) you should watch this.
Yeah right.
This is the worst thing the TMNT franchise has ever spawned.
I was a kid when this came out and I still thought it was deuce, even though I liked the original cartoon.
There's this one scene I remember when the mafia ape guy explains to his minions what rhetorical questions are.
It's atrocious.
Many fans hate on the series for including a female turtle, but that didn't bother me.
So much so that I didn't even remember her until I read about the show recently.
All in all, it's miserably forgettable.
The only okay thing was the theme song.
Guilty pleasure, they call it...
Nananana ninja...
Sometime in 1998, Saban had acquired the rights to produce a brand-new Ninja Turtles live-action series.
Naturally, being a fan of the TMNT back in the day, this obviously peaked my interest.
So when I started watching the show...
to say I was disappointed by the end result is an understatement.
Some time later (more like recently), I got a chance to revisit the series.
First off, let's talk about some of the positives.
They managed to re-create the Turtles' lair as it was last seen in the movies fairly well given the limited budget they threw in with this.
There tends to be this darker atmosphere overall in terms of the sets and whatnot.
And the Turtle suits, while not the greatest piece of puppetry and whatnot, were functional and seemed pretty sturdy for most of the action stuff that would follow in the series.
People tend to complain about getting rid of Shredder quickly and replacing him with these original villains who could have easily been used in a Power Rangers show.
But you can only have Shredder get beat so many times before it gets boring and undermines his worth as a villain...
and besides, most fans don't realize or don't remember or just plain ignore the fact that in the original comic, the Shredder was offed in the very first issue!
Never mind the countless resurrections that would follow.
So on a personal standpoint, I was sort of glad they got rid of Shredder because then the anticipation would build to the point where they would eventually bring him back in a later episode.
I find that Shredder in small quantities work best because then his encounters with the Turtles are all the more memorable.
Unfortunately, they end up replacing him with these original villains who, as stated, seemed more fit for a Power Rangers show than a Ninja Turtles show.
And with these new magic-wielding generics comes a new female magic-wielding turtle, the infamous Venus De Milo.
I'll be honest;
I never got comfortable with her.
I'm not against the idea of a female turtle;
I'm just against the idea of one who uses magic and thus sticks out like a sore sight among a clan of ninja turtles who seem somewhat out of their domain.
I almost get the impression that this could have easily been the Venus De Milo show dealing with her make-believe enemies and the TMNT are just there to provide the star power (or whatever was left considering the timeframe this was released).
Fortunately, they all share the spotlight together.
Next Mutation was canned after a season on the air and the creators were more than happy to ignore it.
Given time and maybe another season, I really believe this live iteration of the TMNT could have been something and might have gotten a chance at greatness.
But while the idea was sound, the execution was flawed (although there are a couple good episodes in this series).
As it stands, Next Mutation is one of those oddities in Turtledom that is best left buried and forgotten.
This is the biggest insult to TMNT ever.
Fortunantely, officially Venus does not exist in canon TMNT.
There will never be a female turtle, this took away from the tragic tale of 4 male unique mutants who will never have a family of their own, once gone no more.
The biggest mistake was crossing over Power Rangers to TMNT with a horrible episode;
the turtle's voices were WRONG and they all acted out of character.
They could have done such a better job, better designs and animatronics and NO VENUS.
don't bother with this people...
it's cringe worthy material.
the lip flap was slow and unnatural looking.
they totally disrespected shredder.
the main baddie, some dragonlord dude was corny.
the turtles looked corny with things hanging off their bodies, what's with the thing around raph's thigh?
the silly looking sculpted plastrons!
If they looked normal, acted in character and got rid of Venus, got rid of the stupid kiddie cartoon sounds...
and better writing it could have been good.
I did not like the idea of the female turtle at all since 1987 we knew the TMNT to be four brothers with their teacher Splinter and their enemies and each one of the four brothers are named after the great artists name like Leonardo , Michelangleo, Raphel and Donatello so Venus here doesn't have any meaning or playing any important part and I believe that the old TMNT series was much more better than that new one which contains Venus As a female turtle will not add any action to the story we like the story of the TMNT we knew in 1987 to have new enemies in every part is a good point to have some action but to have a female turtle is a very weak point to have some action, we wish to see more new of TMNT series but just as the same characters we knew in 1987 without that female turtle.
I cannot stay indifferent to Lars van Trier's films.
I consider 'Breaking the Waves' nothing less than a masterpiece.
I loved 'Dancer in the Night.'
I admired the idea in 'Dogville' but the overall exercise looked to me too dry and too theatrical, less cinema.
'Europa' which I see only now was a famous film at its time, succeeded in the US the relative success of an European film and got the Oscar for the best foreign language movie, but did not survive well the time in my opinion.
It is also a too much explicit and extrovert exercise in cinema art to my taste.
The story has a level of ambiguity that cannot escape the viewer.
Treating the period that immediately followed the second world war not in the black and white colors of victors and vanquished, of executioners and victims but as rather ambiguous times when people of both sides were fighting for survival in the aftermath of a catastrophic event that change the lives of nations and individuals forever is still a source of disputes even today, more such was novel and courageous two decades ago.
Yet it is the means of expression that really do not appear fit to the task.
The film seems to include a lot of quotes descending directly from the films of Hitchcock, especially his early films set in the pre-war Europe, with brave British spies fighting evil German spies on trains crossing at high speed the continent at dark.
The trains were a symbol of the world and its conflicts with all their intensity and dramatism.
Here the train also becomes the symbol of the first sparkles of the re-birth of Germany after war, of its might, of its obsession with order and regulation, of punctuality and civility.
The characters that populate the train are far from being the classical spy stories good or bad guys.
The principal character a young American of German origin coming to post-war Europe willing to be part of a process of help and reconciliation finds himself in an ambiguous world of destruction and corruption, with liberators looking more like oppressive occupiers, with the vanquished not resigned to their fate but rather willing to continue on the path of self-destruction, with love doubtfully mixed with treason.
It is yet this classical film treatment that betrays the director in this case.
The actions of the characters, especially of Leopold Kessler played by Jean-Marc Barr seem confused, and lack credibility.
The overall cinematography seems to be not Hitchcock-like but rather from a bad imitation of Hitchcock in the late 30s.
The usage of color over the black-and-white film used in the majority of the time in moments of emotional intensity is also too demonstrative.
It is not that Van Trier does not master his artistic means, but he is too demonstrative, he seems to try too hard to show what a great filmmaker he is.
He really is great, as he will show in some of his later films, but it will be left to the viewers to decide this alone.
This film is terrible.