Selling Points
Lesser Franco to be sure, but I made it through the full movie.
- boobs, Boobs, BOOBS! Ha! From the opening scene, you get plenty. And all lovely real ones, no implants. Nothing pisses me off more than fake tits.
- the lead (Analia Ivers) with her jungle mullet perm. Great bouncy set of what matters for a movie like this. I wish they would have lost those silly beaver tails she was wearing to sorta cover them up and just have a few scenes of her fully topless for us to admire. She rides elephants, hippos (I think) and has a chimp friend.
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- the beautiful Alicia Principe giving the movie it's only actual fully nudity, when she decides to go skinny dipping in a lovely waterfall, gets threatened by a hippo, and leaves the water to go cave exploring. Still fully nude! Alicia, I salute you.
- William Berger slumming in this as Uruck the Temple Guardian, who decides to have two women fight it out for the privilege becoming his wife.
- Eva Leon as Rena the mean Amazon leader. With her eye patch, she seems like she would have been better in a Nazi-sploitation movie or women in prison flick, as a sadistic warden. She had a long career and turns up in a few other Jess Franco movies (Mansion Of The Living Dead, Bahia Blanco).
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- the bat attack! Ha, euro-sleaze and horror movies have a lot of bad bat attacks. This one, where there look to be maybe three fake bats (the girl yells "there must be hundreds!") moving from strings is pretty funny.
- Lina Romay stands in as an Amazon prison guard, wearing a wig that unfortunately covers up her whole chest, but doesn't even speak.
This one has a lot in common with Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro, sharing some of the same cast, and looking to use some of the same locations. Even the story points are similar. And at the end, Antonio Mayans gets the girl, and the chimp claps. I watched the MVD Rewind blu-ray, but this is also on Tubi at the moment.