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Prof. Taylor (Al Cliver) and his family are attacked on their boat by a group of cannibals. Taylor is taken back to the village and barely survives, losing his young daughter and left arm (!) in the process. He spends the next decade or so manic and recovering in New York City with the help of his nurse Ana (Lina Romay). When he finally comes to his senses, Taylor - with aid from his rich benefactors - mounts another journey into the jungle to rescue his daughter. Problem is that she is now married to the head of the tribe and, most likely, hates her one- armed daddy.

Always down for a little exploitation, director Jess Franco got his cannibal groove on in the late 70s/early 80s and shot this one in the south of Spain. The cannibals are laughable (one is spotted wearing a wedding band) and look like they were grabbed in a Lowes parking lot (not far off actually as Franco says they hired gypsies). Plus, they wear goofy make up that makes them look like they are members of the baseball gang in THE WARRIORS. Sabrina Siani, memorably nude in Fulci's CONQUEST, shows where she got her start as the grown up daughter-turned- cannibal-queen. Franco calls her the "most stupid" person he has ever worked with in the Blue Underground disc's documentary. He then stops himself short and says that he has worked with many dumb leading ladies and that she is up there in the top. He also has kind words for Cliver, saying he was professional and sober which "for a Latin person is a miracle." While the film isn't even close to the genre's best offerings, it moves along fast enough, features some skin and delivers some gory goods (yeah, I'm easy to please tonight). One thing is for sure though, you will be singing the "Oh, oh, oooooooh" cannibal theme over and over by the time the film is done.

Being a great fan of the prolific Spanish Exploitation deity Jess Franco, I always believe negative feedback to a Franco flick I haven't seen to be exaggerated. It is undeniable that the man's impressive repertoire of about 200 directed movies includes masterpieces as well as big-time stinkers (and everything in-between). However, I do tend to enjoy even those Franco films that most people find awful. This is not the case with this film, however. "Mondo Cannibale" (aka. "Barbarian Goddess"/"White Cannibal Queen"/"Cannibals"/"Mondo Cannibale 3") is Franco's attempt at the Cannibal sub-genre which, with its gruesome and uncompromising films, was very successful in Italy at the time. Right after the abysmal French "Terreur Cannibale" (in which Franco was also involved), "Mondo Cannibale" is the second-to-worst Cannibal film I have ever seen and it has replaced "Sadomania" in its rank as the worst Franco-flick I've seen. "Mondo Cannibale" is, by the way, not to be confused with Umberto Lenzi's "Il Paese Del Sesso Selvaggio" (1972) and Ruggero Deodato's "Ultimo Mondo Cannibale" (1979), two classic Italian Cannibal films which are titled "Mondo Cannibale I&II" in many countries. This abysmal Franco flick is therefore often referred to as "Mondo Cannibale 3".

For whatever reason, a scientist (Al Cliver) brings his wife and young daughter with him on an expedition deep in a jungle filled with hungry cannibals. His wife gets eaten, and he escapes without his daughter (!), after his hand has been chopped off. Years later, the scientist comes back for his daughter, along with a couple of bored rich people who don't believe in his story and are just there to have fun. The cannibals are in the meanwhile, worshiping the daughter (who has blossomed into a beautiful bare-bosomed blonde)as a 'white goddess'...

There is so much wrong with this film that I hardly know where to begin: The jungle is not a jungle. It is a very neat assembly of palm-trees, probably somewhere in Spain or Southern France. It is so neat that the expedition is capable of going there in cars. Sometimes, one can even see Western buildings in the background. The 'savages'are entirely white guys. Some of them sport mustaches, sideburns and hip hair-cuts. Other wear watches or gold rings. Even though they clearly hate 'whites' (which is odd since they are white themselves), the cannibals declare the white girl their goddess on sight. The child, by the way, has brown hair, which magically becomes blond when she grows up. The main hero is apparently cowardly enough to leave his child daughter behind with a bunch of cannibals, but insanely brave enough to go back there after years, with two other men and three women to face the entire cannibal tribe... I could go on and on about the film's inconsistencies; however, the incredible logical errors are actually the most fun factor of the film. Sadly, all the rest is very boring. The seemingly never-ending monotonous drum banging is annoying as hell.

The Cannibal genre has many great Italian films to offer for anyone interested. The genre's only true masterpiece is Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980), but there are many other gruesome and disturbing ones to watch, most notably Deodato's "Ultimo Mondo Cannibale" and all of Umberto Lenzi's Cannibal films. Jess Frano's take on the genre is a disaster. The budget was obviously tiny, but that's hardly an excuse, as Franco has proved on many occasions that he is perfectly capable of making great films on a tiny budget. The man has to be saluted for dabbling in about any Exploitation/Horror sub-genre imaginable. This film is still awful and hard to sit through. Not even Franco's muse and real-life wife Lina Romay can save this. One to be avoided, unless you are writing a book on Jess Franco.

I think this movie is the same as rhe 1979 Franco Prosperi listed in the "Mondo Cannibale" listing. It is indeed a Jesus Franco movie. And it is indeed badder-than-bad !!! If you get bored, count the screenplay inconcinstensies.

The First rule, or what should be the first rule of the Jungle Gore genre is, if you're not Italian, butt out! Because chances are good you're only gonna embarrass yourself. Especially you, Jess Franco. Yet, I've never seen Lina Romay in one of these epics, so, maybe we should give ol' Franco a pass, this time. I mean, just look at her! And if you must know, White Cannibal Queen is not even the worst of the Jongle Gore epics. I mean, I'm pretty sure it was got for quite a while, but in case you didn't know, in 2003, Bruno Mattei would finally work up the nerve to try his hand at this, and the shot-on-video travesty called Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Beginning was born. And considering Mattei was Italian, well, that's just ridiculous! Just sayin'. Either way, if you didn't absolutely despise Cannibal Terror, then maybe you won't consider White Cannibal Queen as repulsive as most do. Me? I liked it! This movie is about a family who are out on the "Amazon river" are attacked by savages. The young daughter, kidnapped. The wife, eaten. years later, Dr. Taylor returns to this jungle, in hopes of finding his now-grown daughter. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as expected. But then again, when do things ever go smoothly when Cannibals are involved? But these guys shouldn't put up too much of a fight, being that they're the most fake-looking cannibals in Jungle Gore history. This is just sad. Some of them are even white! Just a pathetic movie, in general. However, considering Lina Romay & a rather groovy score, White Cannibal Queen is OK in my book! Yet, if you got any schlock-pride at all, you'll just go for something of quality like Cannibal Ferox, and call it a day. 6/10

This Spain/Italy/France co-production results to be a scary movie about cruel indigenous cannibalistic tribes , it is filled with some genuine fright , horror and doom . A man (Al Cliver) who lost an arm and his family -his wife and daughter- , while cruising through the jungle when their boat was attacked by a tribe of mangler cannibals . Later on , he organizes an expedition with some unfortunate travelers (Lina Romay , Olivier Mathot , Pamela Stanford, Antonio Mayans) and he goes back ten years later to bring back his teenager daughter who was held captive by the heinous tribe , only to find that she grew up into a beautiful blonde woman (Sabrina Siani) who became the cannibals' queen . Where the natives are pleased to Meat you! Kidnapped by cannibals! Raised to eat human flesh! .She grew up to be her queen !. Now her father is looking for her !.

A ruthless , barbaric , authentically disgusting flick packing inexplicable disturbing occurrences , shocks , thrills , suspense , chills , hair-rising events with horrible mangling and being extremely gory . It follows in the wake of the cannibalist films from Umbert Lenzi , and, especially , the really a brutal fake documentary : ¨Ruggiero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust¨ that resulted to be the mother of all cannibal films , the most savage , the most controversial movie ever made and the most horrific tale in modern history . Mondo cannibale (1980) is a below average yarn with too much chilling scenes , filled with sleaziness and non-sense of style . It is full of killings , nudism , sexual violence , disfigured people, grisly murders by means of slashing , ripping to death , killings in cold blood executed by ominous cannibals , loathsome and loads of blood and gore . A mysoginist movie with plenty of nudism , sadistic frames , graphic cannibalism , explicit scenes of violence and made in extremely scary style , no for squeamish . This Terror/Cannibal Movie displays lousy special effects with cutting , chopping , hacking , beheading , stomach ripped out and other cannibalistic frames .Stars a second-clas cass with B-Italian actor Al Cliver and the beautiful Sabrina Siani who wonderfully dresses in thong . And involving some familiar faces from Jesús Franco , such as : his real wife Lina Romay as Candy Coster , Shirley Knight , Olivier Mathot , Pamela Stanford Antonio Mayans and as usual , a cameo by Jess Frank himself as a swindler.

Mediocre cinematography by Juan Soler filmed on location in Serra de Sintra, Portugal ,where Franco shot several films ; however , being faded by the odd colouring of the old VHS, I would like to see this get remastered on blu-ray . It contains anticlimatic musical score composed by composer Roberto Pregadio . A disconcerting horror movie with no much interest and badly made by Jesús Franco. He often used a lot of pseudonyms , among the aliases he used, apart from the names Jess Franco or Franco Manera, were Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune , Toni Falt, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, David Tough , among others. In many of the more than 180 films he's directed he has also worked as composer, writer, cinematographer and editor. Jesús's influence has been notable all over Europe . Jess was a Stajanovist, restless writer, producer, director who played and realized over 200 pictures. His career spans over 50 years with a few successes and lots of flops, making all . From his huge body of work we can deduce that Jesús Franco is one of the most restless directors of Spanish cinema and often releasing several titles at the same time. Many of his films have had problems in getting released, and others have been made directly for video. More than once his staunchest supporters have found his "new" films to contain much footage from one or more of his older films. Jesús Franco is a survivor in a time when most of his colleagues tried to please the government administration. He broke up with all that and got the independence he was seeking and getting , at times great eye for composition. He was a hard-working filmmaker, directing a lot of ridiculous movies. However, making some acceptable films , such as : ¨We are 18 years old¨, ¨The awful Dr Orloff¨, ¨The Bloody Judge¨ , ¨Count Dracula¨, ¨99 women¨, ¨Parxismus, ¨The Blood of Fumanchu¨, ¨Faceless¨ and a few others. He always went upstream in an ephemeral industry that fed opportunists and curbed the activity of many professionals. But time doesn't pass in vain, and Jesus' production diminished since the 90s , but he went on working untin his death.

I should have known that I wouldn't like this when I saw that it was Franco. I don't know, I just haven't seen anything by him that I've liked.

White Cannibal Queen is typically boring, with lots and lots of slow-motion, extreme-close-up cannibal chowdowns. The budget really shows when you see Al Cliver folding his arm in an attempt to make it look like it's half gone. And the English-speaking native is really laughable.

Anyways, I can't really recommend this to anyone, except Franco fans who like his stuff.

C-grade instalment in the ever popular cannibal catalogue, light years behind "Cannibal Holocaust" and not much closer to "Mangiati Vivi" or Cannibal Ferox". The indomitable Al Cliver takes centre stage, playing an explorer whose pre-adolescent daughter is abducted by cannibals while on a voyage down the Amazon river. Years later he returns with photo journalists in toe in an attempt to locate and retrieve her, and discovers she has ascended to local deity status.

At times incoherent, the rough editing, mediocre make-up and shoddy cinematography make a tough job even tougher, while trying to contend with the puerile dubbing and overly intense acting. There's the ubiquitous animal cruelty (a giant butterfly sandwich anyone?), severed limbs and other grotesque depictions that you'd expect, but it all seems more gratuitous than usual. Spanish horror maestro Jess Franco has apparently jumped on the cannibal franchise bandwagon, minus a cogent storyline, in pursuit of some quick pay dirt.

Lacking most of the fundamentals that make a professional film, it's barely credible as a movie a labour that may even bore the cannibal enthusiasts.

Jess Franco fans like myself are kind of like drug addicts, always watching another film, hoping against hope to again capture the initial rush of something like "Succubus", "Venus in Furs", or "Eugenie--Story of her Journey into Perversion". Usually, we just wind up with mediocre dreck that leaves us vaguely dissatisfied. Sometimes though we REALLY get burned, like with this film. To be fair jungle action films are not Franco's forte--his films often fail to maintain a basic suspension of disbelief that they were NOT filmed in European zoo. Cannibalism is not Franco's thing either, for instance, he doesn't seem to realize that even cannibals COOK their food before they eat it. Franco actually used the same long, slow-motion takes of people eating raw flesh in extreme close-ups at the climax of one of his WIP movies, but in that context it was pretty sickening (if that's a plus). Here though it's just tedious and dull--the only way this rates a "99 on the vomit meter," as Joe Bob Briggs supposedly said, is if extreme boredom causes you to somehow throw up.

Naturally, with cannibal scenes this laughable the film is nowhere near as potent as one of your better Italian cannibal epics (although they don't slaughter any real animals, at least). But one thing I certainly would expect from a Franco film is sex and nudity--and that's were it REALLY disappoints. Lina "Mrs. Jess Franco" Romay is in the cast, but Franco uncharacteristically keeps her under wraps except for a brief t-shot when she's being eaten (literally). She is by far the most talented actor in the movie, but still what a waste of an actress who had one of the best bodies around in those days. You have the opposite problem with Sabrina Siani, playing the same barely-legal jungle girl character played by Alice Arno, Katja Beinert, and Ursula Fellehner in other Franco movies. Siani spends the entire movie half-naked, but she's such a terrible actress even that gets boring, and her one sex scene can best be described as somnambulistic. I also couldn't help wondering how the dark-haired little girl in the beginning grew up to be a blonde teenager (albeit with dark roots). Where did she find peroxide in the jungle? (Of course, she had to be blonde or this "white goddess" wouldn't have looked any whiter than the obviously European "cannibals").

But I'm forgetting something--oh yeah, the plot. Well, it's pretty much the exact same plot as "Diamonds of Kilimajaro", but with more inept "cannibalism" scenes and less gratuitous nudity. Watch that one instead.

The opening credits on my DVD say this is a Franco Prosperi film, yet the cover states that the director is none other than Jess Franco; I am more inclined to believe the latter given the dreadful camera-work, poor narrative, dreadful effects and general shoddiness of this production.

Looking as though it was shot in the local botanical gardens (I'm sure I spotted roads and walls in the supposed tropical jungle) and featuring the most unconvincing cannibals ever (due to badly applied face paint, they look like members of Kiss crossed with the Insane Clown Posse), this lamentable mess of a movie features Al Cliver as Jeremy Taylor, a doctor searching for his missing daughter, who was abducted by a tribe of cannibals many years before. After putting together an expedition and travelling into cannibal country, he discovers his long-lost girl living with the gut-munchers having been proclaimed a goddess by the savages.

As any fan of the genre knows, cannibal movies should include as much stomach churning gore as possible, plus frequent nudity and, wherever possible, real animals being hacked to pieces. White Cannibal Queen fails on all counts. The gore is shot in out-of-focus, extreme close-up (and in slow motion!), the nudity is sparse (the 'cannibal queen' is topless and Franco regular Lina Romay briefly bares her breasts) and not a single defenceless critter gets mutilated.

Only a cool funky jungle soundtrack, and an extremely funny moment when the head cannibal suddenly starts to speak English, prevents me from giving this Franco farrago the lowest possible score (he's already been given 1/10 from me for his excremental efforts A Virgin Among the Living Dead and Succubus).

This was the third jungle cannibal film I've watched from Jess Franco. Easily the best of the lot, but the competition for that crown isn't much. Franco was simply riding the Cannibal phase, and it simply shows.

I guess, I would say this low-rent production was enjoyable in parts. Loved the slow-motion cannibal munching and the nauseating camera zooms. Those poor ladies. Franco really throws caution to the wind. Although gore fx is a real mixed bag, it works, in spite of some laughable moments.

This includes hilarious dubbing. Even the birds are dubbed?! It was strange hearing cannibals speaking fluent English. Using words like exterminate. But even then, they weren't the most convincing looking tribal cannibals. Nice make-up, but they sure did smear it at times, when eating alive their victims.

The plot throws out many senseless developments. I liked how 'everything' suddenly comes back all at once from our prototginist's lost memory. And how about these people deciding to tag along on a dangerous jungle expedition. They thought they were going on a tea party?! It ain't no walk in the park either... even though some scenes (the nicely trimmed vegetation) look it. Stiff acting and repetitive actions galore.

Surprisingly the funky soundtrack is what I think is the best thing here. Well, I guess I can't leave out Sabrina Siani and Lina Romay either.

Where do i start with this movie?,well it has to be the worse cannibal movie I've seen since Cannibal Terror. The acting is really bad and I have seen more gore going into a butchers shop when they are preparing their stock. I remember seeing this movie when i was a kid and how i covered my eyes at some scenes,but now when i think about it maybe i covered my eyes because it was so bad. I viewed it today for the first time since the 80s thinking that maybe it would be good as im a big fan of the splatter movies of than genre and was looking for a blood and guts fest. The movie just doesn't deliver,the acting is pathetic,the gore is a laughable and if it wasn't for the sexy blonde who walked about topless then i would have turned it off. The movie is about a family who are on a boat and get attacked by cannibals,the mother gets eaten alive and the daughter gets kidnapped by the cannibals who look like guys who would sell you fake designer labels when you go on holiday. Anyway the father survives and goes back to the US,years later he gets his memory back and goes looking for his daughter with a gang of people you wouldn't depend on if you got lost in a mall. The movie i would recommend to watch if you've had alcohol and want a good laugh,as thats what i done through it just looking at the goofs. Things to watch out for,cannibals that wear wedding rings,plastic skulls of poles,the need to speak English to let you know what role the girl plays in the movie and a Portuguese guy who sounds like George Bush. Anyway i wont spoil this movie for you,but be warned that if you invite your friends to watch it with you then you could loose them.

This film was released in 1980 ..around the time most Italian cannibal films were being filmed and released. This was possible the worst one I've seen next to cannibal terror ( and both films share footage) the so called cannibal tribe in this movie is more like a bunch of average Joe's wearing towels and clown makeup and I've noticed no women ( more like a sausage party than a primitive cannibal tribe) the acting is horrible and the plot wreaks but i still find it enjoyable in a comedic way. And I've seen Al Cliver in a lot of other great films like Zombie...the beyond...rulers of the city and joe d'amatos endgame

Mondo cannibale is a sluggish, sleaze-drenched stumble through exploitation cinema's dimmest alleyways. While the film clearly aims for primal terror and pulpy jungle menace, what emerges instead is a dull, uninspired slog smothered in its own lack of conviction. Martino, a veteran of Italian genre filmmaking, seems strangely disengaged here, cobbling together a patchwork of tropes with little sense of urgency or atmosphere. The cinematography, which should have embraced the richness of the jungle setting, feels either flat or overexposed, with framing that oscillates between lifeless wide shots and jarringly composed close-ups. The location is lush, but the camera does it no favors. There's no sense of immersion, no visual rhythm to evoke dread or disorientation.

The acting is, at best, inconsistent. The leads veer between wooden line delivery and wild-eyed overacting, with very little in between. None of the performances have much nuance or weight, though one could argue that a supporting role or two attempts to elevate the material with faint glimmers of sincerity. Unfortunately, the script rarely provides actors with anything resembling credible dialogue or human motivation. Much of the cast appears to be sleepwalking through a jungle of clichés, reacting more to the film's gruesome set pieces than to any organic sense of danger or emotion.

Despite its lurid premise and a reputation rooted in the heyday of Italian cannibal cinema, Mondo cannibale lacks the raw atmosphere or unrelenting tension that even the most morally questionable entries in the subgenre occasionally deliver. Instead, it's a plodding curiosity that feels like it was assembled from the leftovers of better (or at least more committed) exploitation efforts. Even the violence, which one might assume would be this film's grim calling card, is surprisingly tame or awkwardly staged, rarely evoking the visceral reaction it so obviously seeks.

With the many successes in the cannibal genre by his Italian counterparts in the early 80's, it was inevitable that Jess Franco would make a jungle movie of his own. Despite actually having some acting talent at hand for once, Jess Franco still fails to deliver the goods that made such movies as "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Cannibal Ferox" cult classics. If you are a huge fan of the jungle/cannibal genre then you will enjoy the unintended humor in this film, elsewise, you might as well let it keep on collecting dust on the video store shelf.

That bad! Really. Horrible images, ridiculous pretended "natives" bouncing up around their badly played preys, ugly smeared makeup...

If there is a story, it gets lost in the jungle!

Not worth losing time watching.