2005 ‘Um Lobisomem na Amazônia’ Directed by Ivan Cardoso
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.
Dr Moreau takes up his vile experiments deep in the Amazon jungle. And there are amazons as well. And a group of kids going on holiday. Oh, and Dr Moreau is a werewolf. Normally that last sentence would be a spoiler but when the good doctor is played by Paul Naschy it becomes more than obvious.
To call A werewolf in the Amazon light on plot is quite an understatement. Naschy mostly gives speeches in his lab full of bubbling vials and when the material is as lowbrow as this you kinda feel a bit sorry for him. Still, Naschy is Naschy and since everything here is quite tongue in cheek you do respect him for being a professional about…
Em honra dos cem anos completados hoje pelo grande Orlando Drummond!
Não chega a figurar no rol de terrirs indefectíveis do Ivan Cardoso, mas mesmo assim é divertidíssimo.
Youtube ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzdt_jdtcNw )
Ivan Cardoso gives us his take on Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr Moreau, with his playful sense of humour intact. None the less, this long delayed return to full-length filmmaking feels a bit more “straight” and “sane” than his three previous movies. (Actually, Scarlet Scorpion also fits this trend). The significant location photography is a huge asset, and Paul Naschy gives his absolute all in the role as the Dr Moreau stand-in, even when he’s acting above a nude actress with giant implants. Warms the heart.
The other influence on the plot might be Anaconda, what with the attractive young people out to make a documentary in the Amazon, a misguided short cut from their guide. Making a documentary…
It’s kind of sweet that a filmmaker brought Paul Naschy out for another werewolf film just a few years before he was taken by cancer. His life was lived as a werewolf, and while some of his films were among the worst I’ve seen, his work has now grown on me and the end is bittersweet. Naschy only briefly inhabits a nameless werewolf this time, instead appearing more often as Dr. Moreau. A brief scene where the doctor speaks directly to the camera might be overlooked, but it’s the only time Naschy has done this, and I was reminded of JCVD.
Something came to mind watching it. The original Naschy plot usually required that, to overcome his curse, a beautiful…
I went into this expecting a low-rent addition to the Paul Naschy werewolf cycle by oddball Brazilian director Ivan Cardoso. I wasn't expecting a Dr. Moreau homage with bumbling cops, boobs, Amazon warriors, hallucinogens, more boobs, and a way out of place Incan (?) priest musical number. Don't get me wrong. This is so far from good that it's not even in the same zip code, but I was never bored. That's all I ask of my poorly subtitled, VHS quality print, South American werewolf films.
After appearing in TOMB OF THE WEREWOLF(Fred Olen Ray's sexploitation entry in the Waldemar The Wolfman series[that ended that very series{and was the only American Waldemar film}]),Paul Naschy took one last shot at playing an on-screen wolfman in this over-the-top Brazilian film from Ivan Cardoso(THE SEVEN VAPIRES,THE SECRET OF THE MUMMY) that has Naschy as Dr. Moreau as he conducts his mutant humans transformation experiments in the deepest regions of the Amazon jungle,the same area where both a jeep full of six twentysomethings(three guys and three gals[with two of them sporting tattoos]) and two comedy relief coroners journey through the forest until they encounter Morean,his wolfman,and a tribe of modern Amazon warriors that happen to be Moreau's good buddies. This…
Weirdly entertaining despite not a lot happening, comedy that falls flat most of the time and a plot that barely makes sense. I did like the look of the werewolf though and Paul Naschy has some great lines. It has a cheap charm to it that carries it over a lot of it's hurdles I guess, but really only for Naschy or werewolf completists.
Paul Naschy is in the forthcoming movie, Wax, currently in post-production. This, notwithstanding the fact that he died in 2009! So, thanks to animatronics he will play a moving (and talking!) wax figure some five years after death. I just thought how appropriate this is that this man who never really made a great film, nevertheless kept at it because he loved movies so much and ended up appearing in more than a hundred and directing a couple of dozen.
This piece of work by Brazilian director Ivan Cardoso has to be deemed inept by in all departments, yet his multi part performances are far better than those anyone else in this and amidst the madness and mayhem he convinces…
For a film made in 2005 this sure does look like a '80s SOV horror film in basically every sense. Ivan Cardoso may have blossomed a little early as this is my least favorite of his films that has lost the bizarreness that his early films had. The sleaze factor is missing, the nudity isn't. Cardoso reminds me of an almost identical career pattern as Jesus Franco and this is just like one of his later digitally shot probably in someone's apartment type of film. Sadly Naschy is wasted!
Segue o esquema dos longas "terrir" do Ivan, sobretudo no que se refere ao formato e aos arquétipos dos quais se utiliza, espécie de homenagem-paródia aos clássicos seriados estadunidenses de aventura, radionovelas e filmes de monstro da Universal. Nos longas do Ivan geralmente sinto falta da linguagem mais experimental e da montagem afiada característicos dos curtas dele, e "Um Lobisomem na Amazônia" não é exceção. Uma coisa que permanece intacta, no entanto, é o senso de humor.
Bruno de Luca como um badboy com uma namorada gótica.
Um monte de amazonas com o peito pra fora.
Evandro Mesquita.
Não tem como não gostar pelo menos um pouco.
Ivan Cardoso gives us his take on Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr Moreau, with his playful sense of humour intact. None the less, this long delayed return to full-length filmmaking feels a bit more “straight” and “sane” than his three previous movies. (Actually, Scarlet Scorpion also fits this trend). The significant location photography is a huge asset, and Paul Naschy gives his absolute all in the role as the Dr Moreau stand-in, even when he’s acting above a nude actress with giant implants. Warms the heart.
The other influence on the plot might be Anaconda, what with the attractive young people out to make a documentary in the Amazon, a misguided short cut from their guide. Making a documentary…
It’s kind of sweet that a filmmaker brought Paul Naschy out for another werewolf film just a few years before he was taken by cancer. His life was lived as a werewolf, and while some of his films were among the worst I’ve seen, his work has now grown on me and the end is bittersweet. Naschy only briefly inhabits a nameless werewolf this time, instead appearing more often as Dr. Moreau. A brief scene where the doctor speaks directly to the camera might be overlooked, but it’s the only time Naschy has done this, and I was reminded of JCVD.
Something came to mind watching it. The original Naschy plot usually required that, to overcome his curse, a beautiful…
Em honra dos cem anos completados hoje pelo grande Orlando Drummond!
Não chega a figurar no rol de terrirs indefectíveis do Ivan Cardoso, mas mesmo assim é divertidíssimo.
Youtube ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzdt_jdtcNw )
Uma ótima aventura de terror no Brasil. Precisamos de mais filmes brasileiros assim. Bom e divertidíssimo elenco, incluindo o grande Paul Naschy.
Entertaining nonsense that has something for every horror fan, not the soft core mess described, a masterpiece next to the Olen Ray Naschy film.
There’s a lot going for this cheap little Brazilian effort: Amazons, mutations, bestial murders, soap opera caliber babes, plenty of boobs & Paul Naschy himself as Dr. Moreau, who became a werewolf in the Carpathian mountains. Unfortunately, it can’t quite decide how serious it is, so we suffer from things like the bungling-but-unfunny cop & zoologist duo assigned to the case, or the vision of a singing Aztec during a hallucinogenic “daime” trip. Moreau, after some betrayal, has been studying Mengele’s notes while searching for both the cure to his lycanthropy & the woman of his dreams. He created the Amazon warrior-women but they still give him grief. Basically, the 70-year old Naschy is great & if you check every expectation at the door, you may enjoy this turd.
Brazilian horror/comedy has Dr. Moreau (Paul Naschy) doing various experiments in the Amazon. At the same time six people show up to party on some "tea" and soon they begin getting killed by a werewolf.
I will admit that A WEREWOLF IN THE AMAZON has quite a bit packed into its short 77-minute running time. I will also admit that I had to watch the film in Portuguese without any subtitles so I couldn't follow everything going on but the visuals pretty much told you everything you'd need to know. Within the first five-minutes of the picture you're going to see a werewolf attack, a big-breasted woman taking a shower and then a lesbian scene in that shower.
Throughout the…
"Over the course of his five-decade screen career, Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy appeared as just about every monster imaginable — at least, those that walked on two feet — but the one he returned to time and again was the werewolf. Most often it was because he was reprising his most famous creation, Waldemar Daninsky, but he occasionally donned the fangs, claws, and fur for films unrelated to that long-running series. The first time was for 1982’s Buenas noches, señor monstruo, a family comedy in which he was El Hombre Lobo alongside other actors playing Count Dracula, Quasimodo, and Frankenstein’s Monster. Considerably less family-friendly is A Werewolf in the Amazon, which Naschy made for Brazilian director Ivan Cardoso in 2005."
Full review at Werewolf News.
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