Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

DubyaHan The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Ben Larson I spent a lot of my formative years in Arkansas, and I may have even went diamond hunting - I can't recall. The civil war soldiers in this film go hunting for diamonds in Arkansas.The film sports numerous names. Some variation of Demon, Shadow, Thunder, or Diamon Mountain, or something indicating the presence of the Chikara.Captain Wishbone Cutter (Joe Don Baker) of The First Arkansas Calvary returns from the war to find a Yankee Major (Bud Davis) living with his wife (Linda Dano). So he heads off looking for the diamonds some dying soldier told him about.Along the way they find Drusilla (Oscar nominee Sandra Locke, in-between The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Gauntlet). Now, I thought this may be a gay film as they spent time discussing whether to take Drusilla along or leave her behind. Since Locke was listed as one of the top sex stars of 1969 by Playboy magazine, I found this discussion puzzling.Well, they head to the cursed mountain, and they find diamonds along with the curse - too bad.

HumanoidOfFlesh After the battle in American Civil War the dying Virgil Cane tells Confederate officer Wishbone Cutter about diamonds hidden in a cave along the Buffalo River.Coming back Cutter finds his wife and her new husband.After violent fight he sets out with his Irish-Cherokee companion Half-Moon O'Brian and geologist Amos Richmond to find the diamonds.Along the journey they meet a young woman Drusilla Wilcox in a nearly catatonic state and take her with them.As they head up into the mountain Half-Moon realizes that it is the Mountain of Demons,which is cursed by the spirit of Chikara who promised to kill all who ventured into its domain."The Spirit of Chikara" is an interesting mix of ugly western and eerie horror.The acting is believable and the climax is very surprising.The scene of two horses falling down from the slope is shocking and unsettling.8 out of 10.

thelasernut I watched my new copy of this PAL DVD in disbelieve and felt certain I had been ripped off and sold a Pirate Copy instead of a good quality commercial Film Transfer.It starts with Tittles which are blurred and goes on to a Picture which looks as if an old Vidicon camera had just been pointed at a TV screen. The picture smears on movement and is poorly focused even on static scenes, but I settled down to watch it, just to see if it would be worth looking for a copy on Laserdisc or another DVD issue having a decent picture.I began to think there must be a fault with the soundtrack as well as the lousy picture but I eventually realised that every time some sort of insult or swear word occurred - the sound had just been switched off. This might not have been so noticeable if the background noise had remained but the sound really did just switch off at these points.In short it looks as if this particular DVD release has been copied from a TV or perhaps a very bad VHS tape, and presumably at a time when young children would be watching and naughty words would not be appreciated.i would like to think that anyone who purchases this DVD would return it and ask for their money back on the grounds that its a faulty pressing and there for not fit for its purpose - i.e. to show a good quality transfer of this film.The film is actually not too bad and although I could not find it under any of its various tittles in Leonard Maltin's 2005 guide. I suspect this version has been edited down to its 90 minute running time as some action seems to jump from scene to scene in a rather contrived manner.

annualman-1 On Friday 14th May 1982 this was the first film I ever recorded on a VCR - thats why I remember it so vividly - and I loved it. Yesterday I finally tracked it down on DVD under the title Curse of the Demon Mountain in the UK.This has to be the worst official DVD release I have ever seen. I was still able to enjoy the movie, it is (in my opinion) a masterpiece of the horror/western cinema subgenre, but the film transfer was awful.Sound was poor, colours went from over exposed to faded, the film was full frame (despite being shot in Panavision) and the sound went totally muted whenever an insult was hurled! Talk about censorship! The horse fall was there, the bloody battle at the start, the arrow in the arm, but any old insult gets censored out! Unbelievable.Its about time Chikara got the DVD treatment it deserves. Full 2.35 to 1 widescreen, with loads of extras. I would love to see it that way.And I would happily pay good money for the chance!