Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

Original title: Nudo e selvaggio

1985
Unrated
1h 28m

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Jungle Adventure Action Adventure Horror

A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.A small plane carrying fossil hunters crashes in the Amazon jungle, and the survivors must battle their way through cannibals, wild animals, and slave traders.

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5.1/10

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Eva Ibañez
(as Susane Carvall)

Milton Rodríguez

Capt. John Heinz
(as Milton Morris)

Marta Anderson

Betty Heinz

Jofre Soares

Josè
(as Joffrey Soares)

Gloria Cristal

Myara

Susan Hahn

Belinda
(as Susie Hahn)

Maria Reis

Monica
(as Mary Reis)

Andy Silas

Robbie

Leonidas Bayer

Prof. Pedro Ibañez
(as Leonid Bayer)

Carlos Imperial

China

Samuka

Native Chief
(as Samuca)

Ney Pen

Native

Adalberto Silva

Hotel Desk Clerk
(as Albert Silva)

Jonas Dalbecchi

Carlito

Paul Sky

Drunk

Paolo Pacelli

Brother #1
(as Paul Pacelli)

Norton Kays

Brother #2

Storyline

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Trivia
Most of the native cannibals in the movie were played by Brazilian military men on shore leave.

Goofs
When the six survivors of the plane crash have to wade through a shallow tributary of Amazon river, China (Andy Silas) is attacked by Piranhas who bite off the flesh of his right lower leg - Kevin (Michael Sopkiw) jumps to him and saves his life. Captain Heinz (Milton Rodríguez) kills the mutilated China - who from his point of view only represents an impediment to their escape from the jungle - by spearing him with his machete from back through thorax and throws him back into the water that one minute ago has been teemed with a hungry Piranha swarm, but: None of the killerfish shows up now to devour on the freshly killed body of China whose wounds are oozing the water with blood! To top this lack of continuity Kevin reproaching Heinz his brutal slaughter of China in a heavily (and understandably) hateful way is attacked physically by Heinz who wants to silence his accuser leading to the two men punching each other into the Piranha water (!) where they continue their fight by wrestling in the water (!) trying to drown each other! Having more luck than brains Kevin and Heinz are not attacked by any killerfish who must have disintegrated into thin air or moved on to a smarter movie shot on a higher budget....

Quotes
Myara: Do you really want to escape?

Crazy credits
The names of the cast are not shown in the closing credits.

Alternate versions
The USA Shriek Show release under the title of Massacre in Dinosaur Valley is completely uncut and runs 88 minutes long. Special features includes a picture gallery, several movie trailers, and an interview with the star Michael Sopkiw and director Michele Massimo Tarantini.

Connections
Featured in The Cine-Masochist: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (2011)

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Carelessly made Italian sexploitation

My review was written in January 1987 after watching the film on Lightning video cassette.

"Massacre in Dinosaur Valley" is a poor Italian exploitation film, made worse by an intentionally misleading title: there are no dinosaurs or fantasy elements in this potboiler. Pic was lensed in Brazil in 1985 with "Stranded in the Valley of Dinosaurs" as its working title.

Format is in the corny vein of "Five Came Back": a bunch of folks are caught in the jungle and swamp when their light plane crashes en route to Manaos. Among the passengers are an archaeologist (Michael Sopkiw), a scientist who's killed in the crash, his pretty daughter (Susane Carvall, usually credited as Suzanne Carvalho) plus several other beauties. They're attacked by indians, fall prey to leeches and quicksand, plus the other tired gimmicks of the genre.

Sopkiw finally frees two girls from the clutches of the indians and an hour into the film finds fossilized dinosaur footprints. Just when the film might be getting interesting, the three survivors are captured by a creep using slave labor for his mining operations. The rest of the picture is devoted to the boring subplot of Sopkiw engineering another escape with Carvalho.

This sexploitationer mixes pratfall comedy, disrobing women and the usual gore carelessly.