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NAKED AMAZON is one of the earliest mondo-style documentaries and quite possibly the forerunner to future fare like the infamous MONDO CANE series. This one’s a Brazilian production that features striking local starlet Andrea Bayard as one of a group of explorers who venture into the untamed Amazon to, well, see what’s there. The film follows the usual travelogue format with ponderous, say-what-you-see style narration, lots of reaction shots, clips of wildlife and staged adventures. While the requisite native nudity feels very ordinary these days, the film is unfortunately marred by some real-life animal killing which, as always, is the blight of this genre.
Early Amazon travelogue and flaccid precursor to Mondo Cane (1962) from the chappie who’d later give you Africa Erotica: A Happening in Africa (1970). It’s no small feat to make the “Green Inferno” boring, but Sulistrowsky somehow makes it look effortless. Pour yourself a shot everytime a caiman gets mercilessly clobbered in the head with an oar. Pull a lungbuster from your bubbler everytime an animal gets misidentified (iguanas aren’t chameleons) or executed at point blank range (Requiescat in pace jaguar, boa constrictor, caiman, anaconda). Forty-five minutes in, the naked indios with Moe Howard haircuts and fried egg titties make the scene and splash in the river and dance around a bit. Big fuckin’ deal. Not nearly as hilarious as Brutes and Savages (1978). Marlon Perkins you ain’t.
I’m going to take a guess that a lot of the stuff seen in this documentary were set-up but that really doesn’t matter because NAKED AMAZON is one of the better films of its type that I’ve seen. It’s pure exploitation but it’s also part jungle film, part Mondo movie and it just has an all-around crazy vibe to it that has plenty of wildness as well as action, nudity and death.
Naked Amazon is a 1954 mondo movie the predates all the other mondo movies. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a mondo movie, they are generally shock / mockumentary type movies. This one is about a group of researchers who travel to Brazil in attempt to find “indians” (Indian roughly translating to “wild native” or something like that). It’s a strange, dull and ultimately uneventful movie. There is a cast with actors, at least according to the opening credits, but none of the movie looks scripted. It kind of looks like archival footage (but any movie from 1954 would probably look that way). There are no speaking lines, just a lone narrator telling the story for a whole…



















