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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

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Massacre in Dino Valley is a special blend of the cannibal and boy's adventure (?!?) genres that shouldn't be missed by fans of Italian exploitation. It's lighter in the gore department than most spaghetti cannibal shockers (and thankfully there's no real life animal mutilation), but it pours on the sex and nudity. We have several rapes (one of which is a nasty lesbian rape that seems pulled straight out of a WIP movie) and a fifteen minute or so stretch when the two main actresses simply stop wearing clothes--that's right, they parade around the jungle nekkid!!! They even paddle around in a canoe with leading man Michael Sopkiw while topless. There's also a crazed Vietnam vet who looks like a poor man's Bo Svenson. There's also a visual Django reference, one goofy fight scene with absurd sound effects, one crazy Italian-style brawl that looks as if it were choreographed by blind midgets, and lots of shooting--and Sopkiw has a sawed-off pump shotgun that looks really fly. Worth owning.

I've seen bad movies in my life and time. I mean really bad stinkers. Some movies you love because they are bad, some movies you want to slam your head against the wall (in comparison to having to watch the movie again). After watching Massacre in Dinosaur Valley and then watching the interview with Michael Sopkiw, I have to say this is a true jewel of a movie--the movie is bad in all the good ways. The action hero of this film, Michael Sopkiw, is someone you enjoy watching moving around, beating the bad guys up, and winning the girls. The women, mind you, are very lovely indeed. The story itself is not really there. I mean really...look at the title of the movie. You watch this kind of film for the pure mindnumbing adventure that leaves you wanting to watch it again and again. The movie itself has a bit of everything. Not really a "Cannibal Inferno" like the label on the DVD case speaks of, I'd say the "cannibal" portion is ... ah...maybe twenty or so minutes (give or take). The movie is really a bit of vignettes--one small story after the next wrapped around a plane crash and a need to get out of the jungles. All in all, I really think that if you enjoy really bad adventure movies, if you are the kind of chap or lass who enjoys watching goofy t&a, good fight scenes where the good guy pulls off the fight against the bad guys at the very end, then you'll enjoy watching this Michael Sopkiw film.

If your a fan of foreign cannibal exploitation horror than you may very well enjoy this movie. This "Massacre in Dinosaur Valley" was also known as "Cannibal Ferrox 2". It is actually alot better than "Cannibal Ferrox" but not quite as good as "Cannibal Holocaust". It is, of course, poorly dubbed and poorly acted as are most movies of this genre. And it suffers from poor pacing. However, it offers up plenty of cheesy gore, a very cheesy male lead, and plenty of wanton violence and nudity. It also offers the 3 sexiest female leads ever seen in any cannibal movie. Suzane Carvalho in particular is a real treat. Its no wonder the cannibals and perverts of Dinosaur Island can't keep their hands off her..

I got this flick as part of a three-pack and wasn't sure what to expect. What a pleasant surprise! Suzanne Carvalho running around in the jungle topless, bondage, kinkiness, girls in peril, fisticuffs, explosions, shooting, Suzanne Carvalho, smart-aleck humor, and Suzanne Carvalho. Too bad she didn't make more flicks.

As with Suzanne Carvalho's other films,this movie is a pure gem. It may be an imported film,but it has a great storyline. The movie tells the tale of a group of people who are interested in visiting Dinosaur Valley,an ancient and exciting jungle. However,the trip becomes a fight for survival as the plane goes down and the survivors must fight for their lives. The deaths are gruesome and the fights are breathtaking,and the special effects are worth every penny. The characters are great,and the action is exciting. It all leads to a deadly showdown between the final survivors and a group of cannibals who want to offer up the women for sacrifice. Gunshots and arrows clash,and many people are killed. This movie is a great Brazillian hit and you'll love it.

Director Michele Massimo Tarantini's, Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (Nudo e Selvaggio) (1985), is a quirky, B-movie, jungle adventure, set in Brazil, with fierce natives, beautiful women, gratuitous nudity, violence and gore, evil miners, some humor, and a couple of exciting action sequences.

Kevin Hall (Michael Sopkiw) collects fossilized dinosaur bones, and wrangles his way on a fight headed for the Valley of the Dinosaur, hoping to find some new samples. Among the passengers is a prominent paleontologist, and his gorgeous daughter Eva (Suzane Carvalho). Tragedy strikes when the plane crashes, killing the professor and several others. Deep in the jungle, with unfriendly natives closing in, the survivors head out in an attempt to get back to civilization.

Temperamental piranhas strike, then the natives arrive, capturing Eva and Belinda (Susie Hahn), a model, who is destined for some brutal abuse. The women are taken to the natives' settlement, but Kevin breaks up their ritualistic ceremony, opening up on the warriors with a shotgun. Hall and the two women, manage to escape taking a canoe down a river. Trailing them on shore, the natives nearly succeed in trapping them.

After the well done sequences in the native village, it is mostly downhill, as the unfortunate survivors run into a group of shady miners, with a degenerate scumbag for a leader. The women are cruelly abused, and Belinda is callously executed, but instead of getting deadly serious, the tone of the film gets lighter, as Hall brings gratuitous mayhem to the miner's camp, and the adventure ends on a happy note.

According to IMDB this was Susie Hahn's second, and last film. Suzane Carvalho, left films in 1989 to pursue auto racing, becoming a champion Formula 3 driver in Brazil. Michael Sopkiw takes part in a commentary track, with some unidentified parties. Other extras include some deleted scenes, and a subtitled interview with Michele Massimo Tarantini. Very exploitive and trashy, but still entertaining, the film is also available as part of the budget priced Jungle Horrors Triple Feature, which includes the films Jungle Holocaust, and Eaten Alive.

This is the second movie of this genre I have purchased on a very misguided whim (the other being the utterly repellant 'Cannibal Holocaust') and my advice is not to waste your money. I cannot think of one redeeming feature about these movies. They are terribly acted, terribly scripted, hopelessly photographed, lamentably edited, and with only unpleasant themes abounding, mysogynism being the standout characteristic - violence against women seems to be the key element to this entire genre and the storylines are a very weak attempt to dress them up as something remotely worthy or remotely sophisticated. No doubt some porn films are less degrading to women (though I say that with a great degree of skepticism) and with probably slightly better acting and soundtrack. You would have to tie me to a chair, starve me for a week and pay me quite a lot of money to watch this 'film' again. Giving such rubbish the honour of a genre and a place in cinematic history is a bit of a stretch. I am not advocating censorship, but our cultures would be better just to forget this period in film ever existed and let the corpses of these films rest in peace forever.

So a bunch of city twits, a crazed vietnam vet, and a badass anthropologist toting a shotgun crash land into a supposedly cursed jungle. Several scenes of cheesy b movie banter and action, the group is picked off by the local natives who capture the two hot chicks, and strip them naked in an erotic ceremony, before laying them upon an altar of sacrifice. In the fashion of Bruce Campbell and Reb Brown, our anthropologist leaps into action blasting the crap out of the native with his shotgun in a daring rescue.

Later he and the ladies run into sadistic slave tratiors which leads to yet another epic gun fight.

Gun fights, primitive jungle eroticism, silly one-liners, explosions, this movie has it all. The movie is more of a throw back to the really old adventure serials, like the ones Indiana Jones was based on. The production value is pretty good too. The shots are crisp and clear, and the costume designs compliment the movie just fine. Another fine touch I gotta add were the natives themselves. Most of them looked like authentic amazonian natives (and some of them looked white guys painted brown).

This is a fun low budget action movie on par with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. If you liked Man From Deep River or any of the Italian Cannibal Mondo movies you MUST add this to your collection.

MASSACRE IN DINOSAUR VALLEY IS NOT WHAT YOU WOULD THINK. WELL OKAY MAYBE IT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK, HOWEVER ON THE BACK OF THE DVD IT GAVE YOU THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS A CANNIBAL MOVIE THEY ALSO GAVE YOU THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS AN ACTION MOVIE,CRAP!!!! THE MOVIE CONTAINED NO GORE NO STORY NO ACTION AND JUST PLAIN DID NOT MAKE ANY SENSE THE MOVIE IS ABOUT SOME IDIOT'S THAT CRASHED LANDED IN SOME CURSED VALLEY (WHY THE VALLEY IS CURSED I HAVE NO IDEA)THEN THEY START TO RUN FROM SOME NOISE ALL OVER THE JUNGLE THEN SOME JERK START RELIVING THE GLORY DAYS BACK IN THE WAR STARTED KILLING AND PUSHING EVERYONE AROUND.TWO GIRLS GOT CAPTURED (WHAT,S LEFT OF THEM) THEN WAS RESCUED BY AN INDIANA JONES WANNBEE.THEY FINALY MADE IT AWAY FROM THE CANNIBALS (WHICH BY THE WAY THEY LOOK LIKE A POOR MAN,S CANNIBALS) ONLY TO BE CAPTURED BY SLAVE TRADERS (THIS IS WHAT THE MOVIE IS TRULY ABOUT) AND IT GETS EVEN DUMBER. NO GOOD QUAILTIES ABOUT THIS DVD MAYBE FOR DELETED SCENES THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT IN THE MOVIE.