New Guinea, Germany, Singapore, Portugal, Australia, America and beyond, no country is safe when Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi have their cameras rolling. Paolo Cavara, who helped make Mondo Cane, had moved on to make other films, including Black Belly of the Tarantula and Plot of Fear.
This time around, their journey takes us through vivisections, lynchings, transvestites, sex clubs, alligator hunts and a trip to a mortician's school. Everything in this consists of cutting room footage of the first film, including a scene where a monk sets himself ablaze that was totally faked with the help of special effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi.
As the mondo had grown beyond their film, this time Jacopetti and Prosperi go anti-establishment, even laughing about how the dog scenes in the original movie kept them off screens in England. They're incredulous and probably desensitized over all that they have seen.
This time around, their journey takes us through vivisections, lynchings, transvestites, sex clubs, alligator hunts and a trip to a mortician's school. Everything in this consists of cutting room footage of the first film, including a scene where a monk sets himself ablaze that was totally faked with the help of special effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi.
As the mondo had grown beyond their film, this time Jacopetti and Prosperi go anti-establishment, even laughing about how the dog scenes in the original movie kept them off screens in England. They're incredulous and probably desensitized over all that they have seen.