Jess Franco's White Cannibal Queen:
If I could para-phrase one of the Mr. Plinkett reviews (in this case the review of the Star Trek remake) "White Cannibal Queen is one of those movies that you could put on and go out and get groceries, do your arrands, wash your car, and come back and not miss a thing."
This is a slow, slow, slow film. A lot happens but doesn't happen. The camera work is on par with Franco's usual cinematographic atrocities such as the fight scene at the end where the camera zooms in and out like a 12 year old is holding the camera. The whole thing was obviously shot in a forest, effects are laughably inept including Al Cliver's missing arm which is conveniently covered most of the time. The dubbing is far worse than any Italo exploitation or Godzilla dub would have you believe and worse yet Nick Alexander does not voice Al Cliver. How many films did Nick provide dubbing to Al anyway?
Has a certain cheesy appeal if you're wasted and have a hopeless outlook on life, and I mean that in a nice way. The bottom of the barrel of the cannibal subgenre, and there's still another Franco Cannibal flick to watch...
If I could para-phrase one of the Mr. Plinkett reviews (in this case the review of the Star Trek remake) "White Cannibal Queen is one of those movies that you could put on and go out and get groceries, do your arrands, wash your car, and come back and not miss a thing."
This is a slow, slow, slow film. A lot happens but doesn't happen. The camera work is on par with Franco's usual cinematographic atrocities such as the fight scene at the end where the camera zooms in and out like a 12 year old is holding the camera. The whole thing was obviously shot in a forest, effects are laughably inept including Al Cliver's missing arm which is conveniently covered most of the time. The dubbing is far worse than any Italo exploitation or Godzilla dub would have you believe and worse yet Nick Alexander does not voice Al Cliver. How many films did Nick provide dubbing to Al anyway?
Has a certain cheesy appeal if you're wasted and have a hopeless outlook on life, and I mean that in a nice way. The bottom of the barrel of the cannibal subgenre, and there's still another Franco Cannibal flick to watch...
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