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November 1983 (USA) moreTagline:
They raped and killed his sister while he watched helplessly. Now it's his turn to Make Them Die Slowly morePlot:
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Weekly Body Count: Trap Them and Eat Them (From SoundOnSight. 20 May 2009, 9:02 PM, PDT)
Convention Report: Chiller Theater 2009, Parsippany, NJ!
(From Icons of Fright. 9 May 2009, 9:36 AM, PDT)
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The Biggest Shock Is That It's Good! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Giovanni Lombardo Radice | ... | Mike Logan (as John Morghen) | |
| Lorraine De Selle | ... | Gloria Davis | |
| Danilo Mattei | ... | Rudy Davis (as Bryan Redford) | |
| Zora Kerova | ... | Pat Johnson (as Zora Kerowa) | |
| Walter Lucchini | ... | Joe Costolani (as Walter Lloyd) | |
| Fiamma Maglione | ... | Myrna Stenn (as Meg Fleming) | |
| Robert Kerman | ... | Lt. Rizzo | |
| John Bartha | ... | Brooklyn Mobster | |
| Venantino Venantini | ... | Sgt. Ross | |
| 'El Indio' Rincon | ... | Native who helps Gloria |
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Also Known As:
Make Them Die Slowly (USA)Woman from Deep River (Australia)
Caníbal Feroz (Portugal) [pt]
Caníbal feroz (Spain) [es]
Cannibal ferox (France) (video title) [fr]
De kannibalen vallen aan! (Netherlands) [nl]
Die Rache der Kannibalen (West Germany) [de]
Jaget af kannibaler (Denmark) [da]
Kannibalen massakren (Sweden) [sv]
Lefki sarka sta dontia tous (Greece) [el]
Los últimos canibales (Argentina) [es]
Terreur cannibale (France) (video box title) [fr]
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
93 min | South Korea:85 min (heavily cut) | UK:86 min (heavily cut)Country:
ItalyColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
USA:Not Rated | UK:18 (re-rating: 2000) (heavily cut) | Norway:18 (re-rating: 2005) (uncut) | UK:(Banned) (1984-2000) | Norway:(Banned) (1984-2005) | Canada:R (Alberta) | Sweden:15 (uncut) | South Korea:18 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | West Germany:18 (cut) | Finland:K-18 | Italy:VM18 (VHS rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Canada:(Banned) (Ontario) | France:-16 | Italy:VM14 | New Zealand:R18 (cut) | Germany:BPjM RestrictedFun Stuff
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When filming the death of the wild boar, Giovanni Lombardo Radice nearly severed the hand of his double. Although Radice refused to kill the pig himself, a shot of Radice slashing the knife downward was needed to show that his character killed the pig. (The shots of the pig's death were later spliced in between.) To create blood splatter for this shot, Radice's double, who actually killed the pig for the film, was to hold a bowl of fake blood, which Radice would then stab. However, the double held the bowl from the bottom, and when Radice stabbed the bowl, the knife went through and cut his double's hand badly. Because of this accident, Radice saw himself as possibly "avenging" the pig's death. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: When the group arrives at the village, the corpse of the Portuguese is decomposed far more than it would normally be after one day, even in the rain forest. Also, other people who died before him weren't decomposed at all. moreQuotes:
Mike Logan: Wanna know something? I had you nailed down the minute I saw you.Pat: Oh you did? What, that I'm a little whore?
Mike Logan: All the way. A hot-pussied little whore, who arrived down here looking for freedom, a victim of Puritanical breeding, seeking release for strange new feelings.
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Red River Valley moreFAQ
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There are so many versions of this movie floating around that I have absolutely no idea what was cut from the version I saw, and what wasn't. All I know is that it was the recent Grindhouse Releasing version.
I expected absolutely nothing from this movie, other than completely amateurish nonsense in the vein of an updated Hershell Gordon Lewis. I was shocked to find that Cannibal Ferox really isn't a bad movie at all. The storyline, acting and production values were as solid as you could expect from such a multi-lingual low budget exploitation flick, especially considering the amount of outdoor location shooting, and Grindhouse have done a really good job with the remastering. Lorraine De Selle is great, trying to take the whole thing seriously while Giovanni Lombardo Radice chews the scenery around her with leering, bog-eyed abandon. Zora Kerova looks like she wandered in from the set of Friday 13th Part II, all blond curls and pert tits, and suffers the consequences. The whole New York subplot stinks of running-time-filler and could be totally done away with.
The gore is minimal but effective a blink and you'll miss it latex castration and a rather more shocking breast-on-hook impalement. The much criticized animal cruelty really isn't as bad as everyone tries to make out usually consisting of little more than Discovery Channel style documentary footage of animals chasing and killing each other. On the few occasions in which people actively kill animals, they do so quickly and efficiently, and there's no sense that the animals are suffering, or no more than they would in the average abattoir. It's interesting that when animals are butchered for your viewing pleasure in Italian exploitation movies it's banned in a dozen countries, but when Coppola does it (far less humanely) in Apocalypse Now, it's art.
This was my first journey into the Cannibal genre, and if I can get my hands on Cannibal Holocaust, it won't be my last. Ferox is a fun, trashy, low budget, exploitation fest that is far more enjoyable than some of the big-budget mainstream dross that I've had to endure (Constantine anyone?).