[Sam@Cult Labs]

LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS (SHAM022)

On the smutty fringes of the cannibal genre, Joe D'amato's tropical sleaze and gore epic is heady mix of sapphic eroticism, disco flesheating and penile violence that will leave trashy movie lovers gasping for breath. A great late 70s Porno-Disco score, Scandanavian sex starlets (in this case Sirpa Lane), exotic locales, a rich vein of Voodoo hokum, choice dialogue and a strangely relevent Eco-message make Love Goddess of the Cannibals another great addition to the Shameless collection.

The BBFC has passed the movie uncut at 85 min 20 sec. The controversial cockfighting sequence at the head of the movie remains intact, due to the fact that the filmmakers clearly shot an event that was going to happen anyway, which is a world away from the producers setting up animal cruelty deliberately for their cameras.

The Shameless print will also restore some short sequences that, in other releases had been removed due to slight damage of the negative.