Papaya - the cannibals' goddess of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Papaya - the cannibals' goddess of love |
| Original title | Papaya dei Caraibi |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe D'Amato |
| script |
Renzo Maietto Joe D'Amato |
| production | Carlo Maietto |
| music | Stelvio Cipriani |
| camera | Joe D'Amato |
| cut | Vincenzo Tomassi |
| occupation | |
| |
Papaya - The cannibal goddess of love (original title: Papaya dei Caraibi ) is an Italian adventure film belonging to the sexploitation genre by Joe D'Amato from 1978. The soft sex film is about an island beauty - played by Melissa Chimenti in her only leading role - the one in The name of a rebel group seduced men in order to prevent them from building a power station.
The lurid German film title suggests a non-existent relationship with the cannibal film sub-genre , although the film also contains elements of the horror film.
action
A nuclear power plant is to be built on a Caribbean island against the will of the locals . The islanders defend themselves against the project, organize themselves and send a small secret organization under the leadership of their goddess of love, Papaya, a tropical beauty. This gradually ensnared the project engineers with the aim of collecting information about the planned power plant. Then the engineers are brutally murdered.
The socially critical journalist Sara spends her vacation in this exotic paradise. There she happened to meet an engineer friend, Vincent, who was involved in the construction of the power plant. The two have no idea of the bloody activities when they meet the elegant papaya during a little excursion. The apparently friendly locals lure the couple to a traditional ceremony called the “Red Stone Festival”, during which she administers drugs to the two and makes them submissive.
Days later, Sara is kidnapped by two of the organization's agents. From these she learns that Vincent is to be murdered, she herself is to be spared and reports of the oppression of the nature-loving inhabitants. While Vincent completely surrenders to Papaya and is later murdered, Sara falls for the dark-skinned leader of the rebels. This love affair arouses the jealousy of the bisexual papaya, which Sara also desires. At the end of the film, the organization succeeds in winning Sara over to its cause.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the “made simple” and “amateurishly played” production was more of a sex than a horror film.
Web links
- Papaya - Love Goddess of the Cannibals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Papaya - The cannibal goddess of love in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - unchecked by papaya - The cannibal goddess of love at Schnittberichte.com