After awhile, the natives are tired of being tortured slaves, and turn on their masters, as well as the anthropologists, thus filling the screen with gruesome splatter! The most violent film ever made! Did you know Edit. Trivia Like Cannibal Holocaust , this movie contains several actual animal killings. Though his character kills an animal in the film, Giovanni Lombardo Radice strongly objected to the animal killings and refused to participate in them a double had to be used.
Goofs Rudy wears a neckerchief bearing the OshKosh logo, but the lettering seems to switch between being a 'mirror image' of itself so it reads hsoKhsO and appearing as it should, often several times within one scene. Quotes Rudy : Why'd you kill her you bastard?! Alternate versions After spending many years as a banned Video Nasty the film was finally submitted to the BBFC in November in a heavily pre-cut form, removing around 6 minutes of graphic violence.
These included a complete removal of cannibalism scenes, a man's eye being gouged out, a scene where Pat threatens a topless native with a knife, all shots of Mike being castrated, scalped and his hand severed, and the infamous scene where Pat is hoisted aloft with iron hooks through her breasts. All of the graphic animal cruelty was also removed. Notably a snake slowly killing a muskrat, and a leopard killing a monkey, plus the mutilations of a crocodile and a turtle.
The BBFC additionally made a further 6 sec cut to a shot of a tethered muskrat falling from a jeep. User reviews Review. Top review. Ugly and terrible entry into the cannibal sub-genre. The film begins with the murder of a drug addict in an unknown apartment by some gangsters looking for a man named Mike Logan.
As the police begin their investigation into the shooting, the action relocates to the Paraguayan jungle, where two students, Gloria Lorraine De Selle and Rudy Danilo Mattei , and one tag-along Pat Zora Kerova are making their way into the heart of the jungle looking for native tribes who have been accused of cannibalism.
Gloria is out to disprove the claims of cannibalism for her dissertation, and after they come across two mangled bodies of tribesmen, they also come across Mike Logan carrying his injured partner Joe Walter Lucchini , who both claim to have been attacked by savage cannibals. Between and there was a huge boom in cannibal films.
They boasted exotic locations, horrific gore, real animal killings, and the threat of the unknown in the primitive tribes. It was Ferox's director Umberto Lenzi who kick-started the sub-genre with Deep River Savages in , but they only really hit their stride in , when the Grindhouse theatres were at their most popular. The cannibal genre died out pretty quickly, thankfully, as they represent everything that is ugly about the horror genre, and Cannibal Ferox, possibly the second most notorious after Cannibal Holocaust, is no exception.
The gore and violence is by no means convincing, or even disturbing, but it is clear from the off that the film's sole purpose is to be more repulsive than anything else before it.
Multiple cocks are hacked off and one is eaten - yummy , a woman is lifted into the air with fish- hooks through the breasts, there is an eye-gouging, and of course, no cannibal film would be complete without a bit of the ol' brain eating. This is all well and good and what can be expected from an Italian exploitation film at the height of the nasties era, but the animal killings are simply needless.
I always found myself defending Cannibal Holocaust for the animal cruelty, as that is a genuinely good film, and the horrific animal scenes really do add to the horrible and deeply unsettling atmosphere. But after seeing Ferox, I realised there is really no excuse for it. Regardless of the film's quality, there is no place for the pointless killing of animals. Radice refused to wield the knife during the pig- killing scene, and in the DVD commentary, director Lenzi said 'Robert De Niro would have done it!
Why the action keeps shifting back to New York is anyone's guess. Mike is a wanted drug pusher that legged it off to Paraguay in search of cocaine and a fortune in gemstones, but surely knowing this is enough? There is a rescue attempt near the end that looks like joining the two stems together, but nothing comes of it. It seems to be there only to add a few more minutes onto the running time, allowing the film to render itself a feature.
When it revealed that Mike was lying and it was in fact him that attacked the tribe shock horror , it seems to be a 'don't judge a book by it's cover' type message. But when the tribe acts out their revenge, they revel in the torturing. Well anyway, the real torture victim was me, who had to sit through this.
There's a few more cannibal films to get through for the nasties project maybe I'll leave them to Marc , and although I'll welcome if that's the right word another viewing of Cannibal Holocaust, I have to say that I would be happy not to have to sit through another cannibal film.
And there's always the Mondo sub-genre I suppose! FAQ 2. What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Exteded Cut? Details Edit. Release date November 11, United States.
Italian English Spanish. Make Them Die Slowly. Amazon Rainforest, Colombia. Leonidas Bayer Prof. Carlos Imperial China as China. Ney Pen Native as Native. Jonas Dalbecchi Carlito as Carlito. Paul Sky Drunk as Drunk. Norton Kays Brother 2 as Brother 2.
Michele Massimo Tarantini. Michele Massimo Tarantini story screenplay Dardano Sacchetti uncredited. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Michael Sopkiw hitches a ride to Brazil to dig up some dinosaur bones. Once in Brazil he gets in a few tangles with the locals and manages to secure a ride on a charter flight deep into Amazonia.
All hell breaks loose as the plane crashes deep in the heart of the jungle, leaving Sopkiw, megalomaniac Soares, and a bunch of super models on their own to trek back to society.
The group runs into cannibals, quick sand, murderous animals, and a renegade mine run by slave owners. A journey into the cannibal inferno. Did you know Edit. Trivia Most of the native cannibals in the movie were played by Brazilian military men on shore leave.
Goofs When the six survivors of the plane crash have to wade through a shallow tributary of Amazon river, China Andy Silas is attacked by Piranhas who bite off the flesh of his right lower leg - Kevin Michael Sopkiw jumps to him and saves his life.
To top this lack of continuity Kevin reproaching Heinz his brutal slaughter of China in a heavily and understandably hateful way is attacked physically by Heinz who wants to silence his accuser leading to the two men punching each other into the Piranha water!
Having more luck than brains Kevin and Heinz are not attacked by any killerfish who must have disintegrated into thin air or moved on to a smarter movie shot on a higher budget Quotes Myara : Do you really want to escape? Crazy credits The names of the cast are not shown in the closing credits. Special features includes a picture gallery, several movie trailers, and an interview with the star Michael Sopkiw and director Michele Massimo Tarantini.
User reviews 37 Review. Top review. An anthropologist, Vietnam vet, his bitchy lush wife, scientist, his daughter, and two fashion models??!? This movie is so goofily cheesy that I couldn't help but to enjoy it. Add to that many quotable lines and you have a good bad movie. Details Edit. Release date August 13, Italy. Portuguese Italian. Stranded in Dinosaur Valley.
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