The Sky Above, The Mud Below

... wanted to include this the last previous post as an aside to the "Expedition Sewing Kit" but for the life of us couldn't remember the name of the movie... after a bit of searching on-line this past week we present:

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... Brilliant!!!!... 'The Sky Above, The Mud Below'... now this is a real expedition!!... 

... along with the "skull-bone necklace", love the tag lines:

"They Filmed the Actual Fertility Rites Never Before Photographed!"

"They Lived with the Guru Cannibals!"

"They Built Seventeen Bridges Across Swollen Jungle Rivers!"

"They Faced Thousands of Hostiles... Thousands of Miles from Civilization!"

"They Witnessed the Secret Orgies of the Cult of the Severed Head!"

"They Were Forced Into Intimacies with the Wives of Their Savage Hosts!"

"Only Two of Them Made It!" 

... man, not unless you got a thousand man-eating savages ruining your picnic you are just beginning to get away for the weekend... saw this film in the theater as a kid, probably eight years old, but have never seen it since - remember we saw previews for it the previous week while watching "Party Beach Monster" or something there other - was to be double-billed with some flick titled something like "World Without Sin" we recall - the trailer for which showed plenty of topless (white) babes frolicking on some "uncharted deserted isle" - sat thru 'em both twice!!... Amazon currently offers only a VHS copy of the tape, but we discovered that theres a DVD copy of a film titled "Black and White in Color" that contains "The Sky Above, The Mud Below" as a bonus feature...

... as an added bonus herein, included in our search we came across 'David Lee Roth's' (yea, of 'Van Halen' fame) account of his own early 1980's trek across New Guinea - coincidentally, he also references "The Sky Above, The Mud Below":

... from his brilliant "The Roth Show"...

... all good stuff!!...

Update: 02/26/17:

... picked up a DVD copy and checked it out this morning... Holy Hell!! - been years since we'd seen it, and then at 8 years old - cannibals, leeches, head hunters, flies, torrential rain, more leeches, heat, more flies, freezing temperatures, even more leeches, mud, even more flies, floods, tropical disease... and leeches and flies... the best thing that could happen to ya' on this trek was to die... highly recommended viewing - we give it 5 skulls out of 5... definitely gotta' get us one of those skull backpacks...