Philippines, 1985
93m
colour
stereo, English
A Filippino science fiction film directed by Bobby A. Suarez.
Plot Summary
In the aftermath of a nuclear war a group of survivors search for the fabled Mountain of Life and meet a tribe of pygmies and a society of Amazon women ruled over by a 175-year-old psychic queen.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Bobby A Suarez
© [not credited on screen]
Just Betzer presents a Bobby A. Suarez film. A-S Panorama International Films Inc. [uncredited], BAS Film Productions Inc. [uncredited]
Executive Producer: Just Betzer
Produced by: Bobby A Suarez
Production Manager: Manny Esguerra
Screen Play: Ken Metcalfe
Story by: Bobby A Suarez
Script & Continuity: Butch H. Santos
Director of Photography: Jun Pereira
Assistant Cameramen: Reynaldo Lacap, Arturo Capulong
Clapperboy: Romy Huete
Headcrew & Electrician: Oscar Infantado
Gaffer: Carlito Pereira
Crew No.1: Rogelio de Leon
Crew No.2: Noel Dapula
Stillman: Butch Oliquino
Post-production Co-ordinator: Edward J Francis
Post Production: Edit 142 London
Assistant Editors: Ruben Natividad & Associates
Colour by: Rank Laboratories
Musical Director: Ole Hoyer
Sound Operator: Jesus Xuin
Boom Operator: Ruben Medina
Sound Recording by: Sound 142
Wardrobe: Ernie Estrella, Asset Bernabe
Make-up Artists: Margie Castro, Francis Perez
Special Effects & Pyrotechnics: Danny Torrente & Associates
Titles and Opticals by: General Screen Enterprises
Production Design: Ruben Arthur Nicdao
Layout Artist: Eddie Domer
Treasurer: Gene S Suarez
Production Secretary Coordinator: Cheryl Ann Flores
Assistant to the Producer: Butch H Santos
Schedule Master: Ben Rojas
Action Coordinator: Franco Guerrero
Casting Director: Maria Ezpeleta
Cast
Michael James [Trapper]
Debrah Moore
Franco Guerrero [Anuk]
Ken Metcalfe
Mike Cohen
Robert Marius
David Brass
Charlotte Cain
Steven Rogers
David Light
Khristine Erlandson
Pete Cooper
Willie Williams
Russel Jenkins
Laura Anderson
Mandy Haywood
Liza Baumann
Bridgitte Mielke
Marina Miatke
Carola Makitola
Joe Cunanan
Katrina Mauback
Ann Milhench
Nikole Streinkenberg
Don Gordon
Walter Fagepstrom
Willie Schober
George Oteyza
Ricky Small
Ronnie Patterson
Herbert Fenner
Kaare Loabroach
Kris Krug
Matt P. Koett
Tim Kirby
Florence Carvajal
Nestie Mercado
Arturo Merjil
Elsie Freeman
Pat Andrew
Sam Lombardo
Godfrey Hazelton
Jacques Gervai
Ernie Estrella
Ofella Martinez Firewalkers Dance Troupe
The Seven Pygmies
Alternative Titles
Operation Overkill – West Germany (video)
Searchers of the Voodoo Mountain – UK (video)
Taxiarhia exerevniton – Greece (video)
Time Raiders – USA
Voodoo vuoren salaisuus – Finland
Links
See also
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Press
1987
Variety for 7 October 1987 p.115
[A] subpar, Filipino-lensed fantasy film trying to fit into the Road Warrior mold. […] Pic has weak English dubbing and an orchestral score that oddly evokes The Godfather. It’s a programmer with ultimately more in common with the Filipino fantasy films of the 1960s then the current Mad Max craze. – from a review by Lor.
References
Periodicals
- Daily Variety 8 October 1987 p.8 – review (by Lor – reprinted from Variety 7 October 1987)
- L’Écran Fantastique no.48 September 1984 p.70 – note
- Variety 14 January 1987 p.92 – note (1986 U.S. Film Releases By Company)
- Variety 7 October 1987 p.115 – review (by Lor)
Books
- The Films of the Eighties by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan p.622-623
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.550
