{"id":9307,"date":"2014-07-26T01:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2014-07-26T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T05:17:49","slug":"dvd-devil-hunter-sexo-canibal-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9307","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Devil Hunter \/ Sexo-Canibal (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DevilHunter1980\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Good<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0<\/strong>Severin Films<\/a><\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a00 (NTSC)<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0 November, 2008<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sexploitation \/ Horror \/ Cannibal<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0An actress is abducted by greedy thugs, but soon taken by a cannibal cult as their perfect meal ticket to spiritual bliss.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0 Interview Featurette: “Sexo Canibal: An Interview with Jess Franco” (16 mins.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second of Severin Films’ Jess Franco-Video Nasty couplet (after Bloody Moon<\/strong><\/a>) is this wan tale of a kidnapping gone awry when crooks lose their meal ticket (and sexual pin-cushion) on an island populated by a cannibal cult that periodically offer up the other white meat to a flesh-eating freak. When bounty hunter\/Vietnam vet Peter Weston comes to rescue the abducted actress Laura Crawford, so begins the magical game of catch-the-bimbo.<\/p>\n

In the DVD\u2019s interview featurette, Franco admits his disdain for the cannibal genre (\u2018Why don\u2019t they eat the beautiful parts?\u2019), which mitigated the script\u2019s morphing into a more traditional monster movie, if not a riff on the Filipino Blood Island series.<\/p>\n

Laura (Ursula Buchfellner, Playboy Playmate of \u201979) is chained and strung up, raped, and later oiled down in her birthday suit by the afro-endowed natives prior to being tied to a tree for the island ghoul. To those bitten by the Franco bug, this sounds potentially intriguing, yes?<\/p>\n

Beginning with an effective title montage intercutting scenes of a native sacrifice and Buchfellner arriving at her glitzy hotel prior to her abduction, it becomes painfully clear Franco is back to his patented brand of run-on scenes. The dialogue is deliciously ridiculous, but without much editorial finesse, the film devolves into an insomniac\u2019s relief.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the naked bodies, bouncing ebony bum-bums and perky boobies, Devil Hunter<\/strong> is 104 minutes of dullness, with a fuzzily photographed marauding ghoul played by a very naked gymnast wearing red-streaked ping-pong balls over his eyes. Some flesh is torn and munched, but it\u2019s all perfunctory, and set to a godawful score co-composed by Franco.<\/p>\n

Although quite uncircumcised, Severin\u2019s transfer source is hindered by a muddy and distorted English dub track. The Spanish locations, though, are outstanding, as are Juan Soler\u2019s compositions, but the low-contrast print suffers from muted colours in dimly lit locations, and some of the screen movement strobes a bit from the poor digital PAL-to-NTSC conversion.<\/p>\n

Buchfellner and shapely Muriel Montoss\u00e9 (Cecelia<\/strong>) are rarely fully clothed, so there is something of merit in this sleazy but disappointing shocker.\u00a0Buchfellner also co-starred with Mayans in both Franco’s\u00a0Lisa<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(1981) and\u00a0Sadomania<\/b>\u00a0(1981).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan (This review originally appeared in the Jan. \/ Feb. issue of Rue Morgue<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — IMDB<\/a>
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\nVendor Search Links:<\/strong>
\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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