Mondo Cane

1962 "It enters a hundred incredible worlds where the camera has never gone before!"
6.2| 1h45m| en
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A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki With no continuity from one scene to the next, I feel there is no reason for continuity in my review of this early '60s mockumentary: dog fighting in opening title sequence. Plenty of topless girls in the first scenes, from sun bathers to New Guinea bushwomen. Headhunters. Brutal slaughter of animals and their subsequent cooking. Dogs relieving themselves on gravestones. Too many scenes of animal cruelty, difficult watch. Dying baby chickens multicolours, silly. Massaging of calves, could this have been Ian Fleming's inspiration for a similar scene in his novel, You Only Live Twice? Malaysian burials at sea. Drunks dancing in the streets. And so forth and so on. Mostly travelogue material here, it possibly held some shock value on its original release but seems quite tame now, not to mention rather pointless. This film is a documentary without a subject, meandering through an hour and forty-five minutes or so, elaborately showing us nothing in particular. Pick any one of its scenes at random, and it could have been expanded into a ten minutes-long vignette, and might have had better results than the entire film. The waltz-like end theme goes on for about 45 seconds after closing credits end.
Rectangular_businessman I loathe this movie.It is totally hateful, from beginning to end, to the point of being unbearable to watch.I never saw in my entire life any other film with so much expressed disdain towards life. There were moments when I had the impression that the guy who directed this film had a truly and utter hate for Humanity and life in general as well. But maybe I'm over thinking things. The most probably thing is that he just were a hack obsessed with shock value, pretty much like Ruggero Deodato (Director of the infamous and almost equally awful "Cannibal Holocaust") Anyway, this is a terrible film, and I consider this to be one of the worst movies ever made.
Tor_Deforest Even as a kid when the movie Mondo Cane first came out, I thought it made no sense that this exploito-shlock-fest had the song "More" as its theme, and now as an adult, I'm still as mystified.What was he thinking? Apparently, the amount of care used by the producer in his choice of a theme song approximates the level of congruence that the producer provided for the presentation of facts. In other words, about ten seconds of thought, if that. It's actually pretty hilarious.I have a suggestion, if there is ever a remake of Cannibal Holocaust, why not use the "The Shadow of Your Smile" for the theme song, or maybe "Stella by Starlight"?
As_Cold_As_Ice This was my first fully-fledged mondo, not counting Killing of America, which I think is more of straight documentary, and Faces of Death, more of a shockumentary. Anyway, I enjoyed it, but it is not without it's flaws.The composer was Riz Ortolani, and as usual, was very good. However, some parts of the score had pre-70's soundtrackitis, which means it sometimes sounds like the soppy and immensely boring soundtracks that were usually in movies before the 70's. However, this only some parts, and the rest is spot on.What amazed me about Mondo Cane was the cinematography. You would not guess that this was shot in the early 60's if you weren't told. The colour and the shots were just so beautiful and vivid.One thing I didn't like was the pace of the film. Some scenes dragged on way too long, and some didn't need to be included at all. I mean, one five minute segment is just drunks/stoners stumbling around the streets. I think about 15 minutes could have been lopped off.Overall, I liked Mondo Cane, but it was a little boring in some places, and I certainly would not recommend this to real gore fans, as there is barely any of the red stuff in this. People with more patience than me would enjoy this more. 7/10