Sam Panico
Make Them Die Slowly. With an alternate title like that, you know what you're getting into here. You're getting into Umberto Lenzi's (Eaten Alive, Spasmo, Man from Deep River, Eyeball) dark and depraved voyage into the world of cocaine-addled maniacs battling cannibals. Beware.Considered to be "the most violent film ever made" and "banned in 31 countries," Cannibal Ferox is packed with both simulated and real violence (the credits should probably read animals were harmed during the filming of this motion picture). It's all about a gang of malcontents who make the dumb mistake of not only going into the jungle, but screwing with the wrong people.In New York City, Mike (Giovanni Lombardo Radice, City of the Living Dead, Stagefright) is on the run from the mob, as he owes them $100,000.Meanwhile, in Paraguay, brother and sister Rudy and Gloria (Lorraine De Selle, Emanuelle in America) and their friend Pat (Zora Kerova, The New York Ripper) are heading into the rainforest. Gloria has a theory that cannibalism is a myth and wants to prove it. They run into Mike and his partner Joe, who have run afoul of some cannibals. Soon, Gloria goes missing and everyone starts to look for her.Soon, Mike's having sex with Pat, doing coke and trying to get her to rape a native girl, as you do. She can't do it, so Mike kills the girl as Joe reveals - as he dies - that they were responsible for making the cannibals go wild as the result of exploiting them for emeralds and cocaine. Turns out killing and torturing natives isn't new to Mike!After Joe dies, the cannibals find and consume his body while everyone is captured and forced to watch Mike get tortured and beaten. Back in New York City, the mobsters are still looking for Mike, along with the cops (who include Lt. Rizzo among the number, who is played by Robert Kerman, a former porn actor who also appeared in Cannibal Holocaust and Eaten Alive!)Rudy tries to escape, but he is caught in a trap in the jungle and attacked by piranhas before the natives kill him with a poison dart.Pat and Gloria are put in a hole while Mike is in a cage. A native man tries to help the women escape, as Pat had saved him after the virgin was killed. However, Mike screws it all up for everyone and runs into the jungle to escape. The natives slice his hand off and recapture him. And then they show off their brains, as they tell a search and rescue party that the outsiders all died after a crocodile attack.Gloria can only bear witness to Pat being hung by her breasts until she is dead and Mike's skull being cracked open and eaten. The native who tried to help before now frees Gloria and they run through the desert before another trap kills him. Luckily, Gloria finds some trappers who rescue her. She tells them the same story as the natives: everyone else was killed by crocodiles.Once Gloria returns to New York, she writes a book that supports her theory and continues the lies called Cannibalism: End of a Myth.This movie is a fine piece of cannibal filth, but is tainted by the real animal deaths. Giovanni Lombardo Radice objected and refused to participate, leading Lenzi to say, "De Niro would do it." Radice replied, "De Noro would kick your ass all the way back to Rome." The stand-in who did the actual killing was cut so badly that he almost severed a main artery, which Radice looked at as karma. I agree.
Johan Louwet
The problem I have with this movie is not that it is that bad as my rating suggests but I'm unable not to compare them to other cannibal movies coming before this one namely Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Holocaust. These cannibal movies have in my opinion a much more interesting story and characters. This movie however takes a bit of the things from the previous movies plus it never really seems to get going. The starting point of the girl wanting to disprove cannibalism is an interesting one. But do we really get to see that much of what the cannibals do like in the other movies I mentioned, no not at all. It is all quite boring to watch with very little character development. The only ones to care about are Gloria and her brother Rudy oh yes and the guy whose leg was injured. The ending was quite satisfying I must say but at that point I stopped caring how it would pan out. No this was overall a big disappointment to me.
Rodrigo Amaro
This is pretty much a carbon copy of "Cannibal Holocaust" with all the needed gore and violence, disgusting elements and shocking moments but it's not a great film like that was. It's almost the same film except for some notable changes, some better, others not so much. A good film anyway. Thoughtful insights were left out to present once again people from developed nations getting eaten by people of the so-called uncivilized nations."Cannibal Ferox" was one of many films of that ongoing success of cannibal films made in the 80's that now are a cult among fans over the world and still banned in some countries due to its hardcore violence and cruelty against animals killed on screen (this has less scenes than Deodato's infamous classic but they still impress and they're completely pointless to the movie's context). You can say it's a terrifying picture even with some funny and ridiculous dialogs and funny moments as well (but I was able to see people laughing when one of the guys had part of his head cut off, we never know people's taste anyway). The weakest plot devices from "Cannibal Holocaust" such as no use of night scenes (that is what makes horror always scary and I can't understand how that movie survived without that) and the amazingly beautiful music of Riz Ortolani (so beautiful that is distractive) are improved here. So, there's night scenes and the music plays its part in haunting us. But the intelligence and the criticism made by that classic is absent here, but quite disguised in form of a special thesis one of the main characters has to do about the cannibal societies and how they act, so dumb.I liked it despite some depressive parts - that tied animal eaten by the snake, scene made to cause impact on viewers but that has no connection with the story - and the pathetic acting by the cast (but Robert Kerman saves the film). Fans of the genre will be delighted with it. 9/10
imwithstupid89
i'm not a naive person. i realize that animals in nature are killed and sometimes slowly. i just don't understand what it had to do with the film. why did they have to have 5 minutes of an innocent animal screaming before the huge snake finally coiled tight enough to cut off it's air. i love cannibal, zombie, and monster movies. i enjoy movies of humans getting killed. you wanna know why? because i know at the end of the day they took home a paycheck no matter how small it was. they got to get up, take a shower and go home. they didn't end up in a digestive system for real for somebody's (mainly mine) entertainment. that part of the movie in no way, shape, or form had anything to do with any part of the movie. it wasn't like blondy could send the little sucker to get help or anything. i'm also just wondering if maybe one of the sickos that made this movie just didn't add in some extra audio of the little guy screaming just for his own "i killed the neighbors cat last night mom" ya yas. this might seem stupid but i'm just saying the people signed up to be killed, the little animal didn't. just some food for thought.
