Theo Robertson A passenger aircraft crashes in to the Brazilian rainforest . The survivors realise they're many miles from civilisation and their only hope of rescue is if they trek out of the rainforest . They begin the trek only to find out the dangers facing them are many I came in to this film knowing it was going to be sleazy exploitation . What becomes clear while watching it is that it has a slightly better look and production value than you normally see in this type of movie . It also has a tongue in cheek sense of humour and you could see this being a mainstream Hollywood movie featuring Sylvester Stallone or Harrison Ford or even Tom Selleck leading a group of annoying characters out of a jungle . Having an archaeologist does mean you've got an Indiana Jones inspired movie This is an exploitation film with a mainstream feel . The difference is that there's little thought given to events that happen on screen being given much consequence later on in the movie . For example a female character is raped and yet the next day she shows little trauma at her ordeal . This type of sexual violence is typical of the exploitation genre and leads to dismissal from a mainstream audience . It's also a dumb movie featuring a lack of internal continuity where a minor character gets killed by a school of piranha but when the hero enters the water all the killer fish seem to have miraculously disappeared In short this is a dumb exploitation film that will have little appeal to anyone who doesn't like the genre . That said it has better production values than most of its peers and the gore is fairly restrained which gives the film a relatively mainstream feel

danthewrestlingmanorigin If you are looking for a stomach churning gore fest like the great Cannibal Ferox a.k.a. Make Them Die Slowly, then you will be disappointed with this film. It has it's fair share of gooey goodness, but compared to the majority of movies in this genre, it's quite tame. Massacre really has more in common with Raiders Of The Lost Ark, except with a lot more T and A, and much lower budget. The good- Massacre is very well shot and competently directed, and has aged well because of this. The women are smoking hot, and showed plenty of skin, even got a brief girl on girl scene in the vein of Ilsa. The action rarely stops, and I wasn't bored once. Finally what I enjoyed most about this film was leading man Michael Sopkiw, who makes a very likable hero, and had the talent to go on to do big things. Saddly things never worked out for him. Nonetheless he gets props from me, for his obvious talent. If you get the DVD, it has a new interview with Sopkiw, who talks in depth about the film, his career, and what he's doing now. The only negative is the lack of extreme gore, although it does outshine many of it's predecessors in other areas.

EVOL666 MASSACRE IN DINOSAUR VALLEY (aka CANNIBAL FEROX 2 - undoubtedly to capitalize on the success and "notoriety" of the original CF...) is an even campier jungle-romp that isn't nearly as graphic as FEROX, but is an entertaining watch, just the same. Mothing all that original or noteworthy as far as the jungle/survival films go, but this one has a little more "plot" than most...A group of people are in a plane crash in a deserted (except for the cannibals, of course...) area of the jungle. What comes next is the inevitable flight from the cannibal inhabitants, and a run-in with some local miners...Some decent gore and a good bit of full-frontal from some pretty smokin' female leads make this one worth at least a one-time look. Not nearly as gory or "strong" as some of the "classics", but there is a decent amount of the red-stuff - and again - a healthy dose of nekkidness to keep ya interested. Definitely worth a look to the genre fan - 7.5/10

Rathko Even in the world of Italian cannibal exploitica, 'Massacre in Dinosaur Valley' is z-grade dross. If you are so inclined, you can enjoy a couple of strapping, greased-up muscleboys wrestling in a bar; live cockfighting; piranha attacks; occasional cannibalism; a weird tribal ritual involving grass skirts and Halloween 'spooky-hands'; and copious amounts of completely unnecessary female nudity, stripping, girl-on-girl action, and the usual titillating 'rape' scenes. The weird drunken Thai hooker lady-boy in the Frank-N-Furter costume who spends most of the movie swigging from a bottle and laughing hysterically at nothing at all is particularly noteworthy.Unfortunately, the whole thing isn't quite so bad as to give it that laugh-out loud quality of vintage Hershell Gordon Lewis. Nor does it have the irony or sheer balls of early John Waters. A curiosity, to be sure, and the whole thing tries terribly hard to shock, but ultimately succeeds in providing nothing more than soft-core titillation for only the most undiscerning of viewers.