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Cannibal Ferox, also known as Make Them Die Slowly in the US and as Woman from Deep River in Australia, is a 1981 Italian cannibal exploitation horror film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Upon its release, the film's US distributor claimed it was "the most violent film ever made". Cannibal Ferox was also claimed to be "banned in 31 countries", although this claim is dubious.[2][3] The title derives from the Latin ferox, meaning cruel, wild or ferocious.[4]
In Colombia, siblings Rudy and Gloria and their friend Pat prepare for a journey into the rainforest. They plan to prove Gloria's theory that cannibalism is a myth. The trio encounters a drug dealer named Mike and his business partner Joe. Joe is badly wounded; Mike explains that cannibals attacked them. Gloria goes missing during the night, and Rudy finds a native village while looking for her.
Due to Joe's injuries, the travelers decide to stay in the nearly deserted village. Mike seduces the naive Pat. In a cocaine-fueled rage, he encourages Pat to kill a native girl. She is unable to do it, so Mike kills the girl himself. In his dying moments, Joe reveals that he and Mike were responsible for the cannibals' aggression. They came to the region to exploit the natives for emeralds and cocaine, taking advantage of their trust in white men. One day, while high on cocaine, Mike brutally tortured and killed their native guide in full view of the tribe. A badly charred body, previously believed to be that of a different guide, is actually this native. Mike kidnapped a native girl to lead them out of the jungle, but the outsiders were followed and attacked.
After the murder of the native girl, the cannibals finally snap and hunt the outsiders. Joe dies of his wounds, and his body is found and cannibalized by the natives in full view of Rudy and Gloria, hiding from the natives. Mike and Pat abandon the others, but all are captured by the natives and forced into a cage. The prisoners are forced to watch Mike as he is tortured, beaten, including having his penis sliced off with a large machete-like knife and then eaten by a native villager. The natives transport their prisoners to another village, but Rudy manages to escape. He is caught in a booby trap in the jungle, and his bleeding wounds attract piranhas. He begs the natives to help him. The natives shoot him with a poisoned dart, and he dies instantly in front of everyone.
Pat and Gloria are put in a hole in the ground. Mike is placed in a separate cage. A native man, whom Pat had saved from Mike's aggression, lowers a rope into the hole so the women can escape. Mike digs his way out of the cage, chases the man away, and cuts the rope, preventing the women from escaping. Mike flees into the jungle, where he tries to attract the attention of a search and rescue plane, but he is recaptured. The natives sever one of his hands and drag him back to the village. The search plane lands, but the natives tell the rescuers that the outsiders' canoe capsized in the river and crocodiles ate them.
As the search team leaves, Pat is bound, stripped to the waist, and the natives run hooks through her breasts to be hung by them. Gloria can only watch as Pat dies a slow and painful death. Meanwhile, Mike's head is locked in a crude contraption, and the top of his skull is cut off so that the natives can eat his exposed brain. During the night, the sympathetic native returns and frees Gloria. He guides her through the jungle but falls victim to one of the natives' booby traps. Gloria eventually encounters a pair of trappers, who take her to safety. Instead of telling the true story, she recounts the natives' lie about the others being eaten by crocodiles.
Gloria, deeply disturbed by her experiences, returns to civilization. She publishes a book titled, Cannibalism: End of a Myth, which lies to support her theory and covers up the events of her ordeal.
Terry Levene's Aquarius Releasing opened the film in New York in September 1983, under the title 'Make Them Die Slowly'. Levene's assistant, Ron Harvey, explained to Fangoria magazine that the box office success of 'Mondo' documentary Savage Man, Savage Beast had inspired the company to seek out a similar property, but one aligned to a fictional narrative. Aquarius' marketing strategy was minimal: a sensational, gratuitously violent trailer (narrated, in a break from tradition, by a woman, in order to provide a jarring counterpoint to the grotesque imagery), no print ads, and the marquee of the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street completely emblazoned with huge, garish banners and colour stills announcing the film. Harvey further remarked that, although the film was hugely successful at venues that would play it, most cinemas shunned the film - he approximated there were probably only 100 theatres nationwide in which it could play.
Cannibal Ferox was released uncut on video in the United Kingdom circa 1982 by Replay, but the film's transgressive imagery and scenes of real animal torture and slaughter resulted in the film promptly being banned under the Obscene Publications Act, finding itself languishing for years on the video nasties list. (In 1983, Replay issued a cut version, based on informal suggestions from the BBFC, bearing an 'advisory', and consequently without legal standing, '18' certificate. These efforts were to little avail, since this version was also effectively banned by the VRA). Early DVD versions, available in the UK were missing around six minutes of footage (chiefly of graphic violence and animal cruelty), which was cut before being given to the BBFC for a rating. The full version of the film was submitted to the board in 2018, and again received 2 minutes of cuts to the animal violence.
In Australia, where it was released as Woman from Deep River, the film also faced censorship issues, being given numerous censored releases. In 2005, the uncut version was released on DVD by Siren Visual under the Cannibal Ferox title.[6]
In the United States, Cannibal Ferox's (a.k.a. Make Them Die Slowly) "original, uncensored director's cut" was released by Grindhouse Releasing in the late 1990s. Grindhouse is still the sole official licensed distributor of the film in North America. On 22 May 2015, Grindhouse released the film in a 3 Disc Blu-ray/DVD feature, the film's first time on Blu-ray Disc.[7] The Blu-ray featured the documentary film Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film and a 12-page booklet.[8]
The film had mixed reception on its airplay. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 40% approval rating, based on five reviews.[9] AllMovie called the film "revolting," but "nauseatingly effective," though noting that it is "primarily a showcase for the gory special-effects artistry of Gianetto de Rossi".[10] Some critics criticized the film for its depictions of animal abuse, the poor acting and lines, and sexism.
Banned in 31 countries, CANNIBAL FEROX assaults your senses as a group of Americans lost in the jungles of Amazonia experience brutal retribution at the hands of blood-crazed cannibals. Shot on location in the savage Amazon wilds of South America, CANNIBAL FEROX is one of the most violent and shocking films ever made. There are at least two dozen scenes of barbaric torture and sadistic cruelty graphically shown. If the presentation of disgusting and repulsive subject matter upsets you, please do not view this film.
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Cannibal Ferox is a badly made movie. The effects and acting are shoddy. It is super gory, though not always convincing, and that is basically its only strength. All Cannibal Ferox exists to do is be gross. It succeeds on that level and is thoroughly disgusting. If that is what you want then I guess this deserves a high rating. But otherwise Cannibal Ferox is overwhelmed by its crude style. The unforgivable real animal cruelty is totally unnecessary and just unpleasant to watch. The characters are all horrible, and the film does the usual justification of pretending to be about how the civilised people are actually the savages. It's really forced in through dialogue too, even though we all know it's a shitty excuse used to get away with making a trashy exploitation movie. Plus the film is racist and sexist in its depiction of tribal people and women, so it ends up nearly as exploitative as what it condemns.
I wasn't expecting much from Cannibal Ferox, but this was really just an ugly movie, made worse by the fact that it's incredibly incompetent. The screenplay is a mess, with a pointless New York subplot thrown in and loads of cringey dialogue. The visuals are cheap and lazy, unable to make any scene not appear clunky. Plus the film is mostly slow and dull, with very little cannibal action. There was some catharsis in watching a particularly evil character have his penis get chopped off with a machete before it was eaten, and then later having the top of his head sliced off so the cannibals could eat his brain. But aside from these grisly moments of interest Cannibal Ferox is an uninteresting bore that is poorly made and morally repugnant.
The bottom line is that this is an important film. I give it a 9/10 because of its groundbreaking nature. It is important in the world of horror, exploitation, cannibal, and found footage films. Without it, we would be missing out on tons of cinematic gems in numerous sub-genres filmmaking.
As a debate, the question of holocaust vs. ferox comes up frequently. I believe that many of the people out there arguing for ferox are just doing it in spite of holocaust. Like Rob Zombie and Metallica, holocaust may just be a film that is cool to hate on for a while. I appreciate these people though. They are arguing for another great film that many people may not know about. I feel like this helps get the word out there. There are after all, even outside of these two films, many great films in the cannibal genre.
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