The sacred beast of the Kumas

Movie
German title	The sacred beast of the Kumas
Original title	The fiume del grande caimano
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1979
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Sergio Martino
script	Ernesto Gastaldi Sergio Martino
music	Stelvio Cipriani
camera	Giancarlo Ferrando
cut	Eugenio Alabiso
occupation
Barbara Bach : Alice Brandt Claudio Cassinelli : Daniel Nessel Mel Ferrer : Joshua Anny Papa : Laura Romano Puppo : Peter Lory Del Santo : Jane Silvia Collatina : Minou Fabrizia Castagnoli : Minou's mother Enzo Fisichella : Maurice Richard Johnson : Jameson Geneve Hutton : Sheena Bobby Rhodes : Joshua's foreman

The holy beast of the Kumas (original title: Il fiume del grande caimano ) is an Italian animal horror film by Sergio Martino from 1979. The German premiere was on May 29, 1980. The film was also released under the title The River of Killer Crocodiles .

action

A luxury hotel is to be opened in the middle of the jungle. But shortly before the start of the celebrations, a model who was hired for the inauguration disappears. The hotel owner tries to downplay the incident, but the adventurous press photographer Daniel and his beautiful friend Alice discover that the missing woman has been the victim of a giant crocodile worshiped as a deity by the local Kumas tribe. Soon the hotel guests and employees are not only dealing with the voracious crocodile, but also with the kumas, who are afraid of the wrath of their gods. Finally Daniel succeeds in bringing down the beast.

Reviews

The film got bad reviews wherever you look: "If you don't watch any feature films anyway, you can also miss this one." "Badly told nonsense." Francesco Minnini rated the film as "a bad imitation of Jaws staged economically efficient; the director replaces quality with quantity. Only the (rarely used) caiman thanks them from the bottom of their hearts. ”In his book Horror - History and Mythology of Horror Film , Georg Seeßlen describes the film as“ technically acceptable ”.

background

The film was shot in Sri Lanka .

Web links

• The Holy Beast of Kuma in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hahn / Jansen: The Lexicon of the Horror Film . Gladbach 1989, p. 220
2. ↑ The sacred beast of the Kumas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ in: Magazine italianotv
4. ↑ Seeßlen / Jung: Horror - History and Mythology of Horror Film , Marburg 2006, p. 600