The sacred beast of the Kumas
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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 |
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Director | Sergio Martino |
script |
Ernesto Gastaldi Sergio Martino |
music | Stelvio Cipriani |
camera | Giancarlo Ferrando |
cut | Eugenio Alabiso |
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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
- ^ Hahn / Jansen: The Lexicon of the Horror Film . Gladbach 1989, p. 220
- ↑ The sacred beast of the Kumas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ in: Magazine italianotv
- ↑ Seeßlen / Jung: Horror - History and Mythology of Horror Film , Marburg 2006, p. 600