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Magnificent film, the best that has been set in prehistoric times.

The French Annaud directs with mastery and good narrative pulse this distant epic rolling in wonderful natural locations of Scotland, Kenya and Canada that only increase the realism of the staging, which really makes us move to that mysterious and hard time.

It is very remarkable how the French makes the images speak for themselves, because the protagonists do not articulate any understandable word for the viewer, making the film pure visual poetry, something much more difficult than it may appear.

The three actors really do it very well, highlighting the protagonist of the story, Everett McGill, with a great job in their gestures and noises, and a Ron Perlman to whom to deceive us, his peculiar physiognomy makes the role come to the little finger Nicholas Kadi is perhaps one step below the previous two but does not detract at all. Special mention for actress Rae Dawn Chong, her gestures, screams and tender facial expressions make her an adorable character and the most "human" of the whole film.

Great work both acting and technical, with excellent and award-winning makeup and an exquisite and very successful photography.

The film does not notice to show with crudeness the habits of the people of those times, how they lived, their sexual impulses, cannibalism, the violence of, the confrontations, and as little by little they are clashing societies more advanced than others and they are being destroyed or mixing, in short, an era where civilization began to take shape, with all that that entails.

Really fascinating by the way, to see prehistoric creatures such as saber teeth or mammoths, in a mythical scene and very well done.

One of my favorite adventure films and one of the best movies in history that I highly recommend.

Thank you.

Here is no doubt that the Spanish director Jesús Franco knew what was done by hiring the German actor Klaus Kinski to bring the legendary Jack the Ripper to life.

Kinski manages to give the magnetism, and the dark and dark aura that so sadly famous character requires. His cold look at the same time mysterious, coupled with that sense of false calm that Kinski always conveys that at any moment can become a start of brutal anger.

This is undoubtedly one of the best films of Jesús Franco, something that is denoted in its good quality both in photography, dark and hazy atmosphere of the London nebula, and a correct and sober direction by the director of Malaga.

A film that undoubtedly belongs to his time of artistic fulfillment when he was still doing serious and interesting works before entering a marked decline in the eighties where he would make a host of rather forgettable products, although today many of them considered cult.

Here Franco does a good job, with a Kinski with whom he understood perfectly, which is why he was one of the few who remembered him with affection after his death, both making a remarkable and interesting horror film despite some ups and downs of rhythm and special effects that can be improved.

Thank you.

An unknown film as interesting as it is entertaining.

From the beginning, its distribution draws attention.

The legendary Klaus Kinski, the legendary drinker Oliver Reed and the brutally morbid and sexy Susan George, eternally remembered for his role in Straw Dogs, by Sam Peckinpah.

A great trio for a tense story around the kidnapping of a child passionate about animals and that mistake introduces a black mamba in his own home and that will cause terror to all involved in this dark plot.

Directed in principle by Tobe Hooper who left the shooting due to a nervous breakdown being replaced by Pies Haagard, Venom is a film endowed with a good suspense, good performances, and a worked setting.

The only but is that the title can be somewhat misleading since the plot does not rotate exactly around the black mamba, but rather it is one more element of the plot, very important, but not the central axis, since this resides more well in the character of Kinski, the brain of the whole kidnapping plan, whose perfidious machinations come to surprise and even entertain the viewer.

It is possible to say that the duel between a gigantic and intimidating Oliver Reed and the cold and calculating Kinski is quite tense, both actors did not stand on the set, since Reed, half drunk constantly caused Kinski who was angered and threatened to hit Reed , turning the shoot itself into a nightmare.

Susan George on the other hand is totally wasted, her character should have had more weight in the plot.

A good movie to discover.