Plot summary
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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The source of all those drive-in Mondo potboilers of the sixties is still quite a hoot today.
Bizarre mix of the amusing, disgusting and disturbing. Still powerful after 25 years!
Watching "Mondo Cane" some 25 years after it originally shocked cinema audiences, I still found myself experiencing a variety of emotions. Despite the dated presentation (in many ways, this actually enhances the weirdness of the whole experience), the film still packs a mild punch, even to this jaded viewer.
A combination of the amusing (would-be actors posing themselves for the camera and geriatric Hollywood residents working out on a variety of unusual equipment), the sad (turtles on a radioactive Bikini beach, having lost their ability to find water, head away from the sea and into the scorching sand and certain death) and the shocking (animal cruelty including bull fighting) results in a powerful cocktail.
The cynical, xenophobic narrator delivers a witty commentary while the proceedings unfold on the screen.
Superbly edited and scored, this is definitely a different viewing experience. A journey into bizarreville; 7 out of 10.