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Cannibal Ferox

Original title: Cannibal ferox
  • 1981
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
11K
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Cannibal Ferox (1981)
B-HorrorFolk HorrorJungle AdventureAdventureHorror

Three friends embark on a trip through the Amazon jungle to disprove cannibalism, where they meet a pair of fugitive drug smugglers forcing a vicious cannibal tribe to harvest cocaine.Three friends embark on a trip through the Amazon jungle to disprove cannibalism, where they meet a pair of fugitive drug smugglers forcing a vicious cannibal tribe to harvest cocaine.Three friends embark on a trip through the Amazon jungle to disprove cannibalism, where they meet a pair of fugitive drug smugglers forcing a vicious cannibal tribe to harvest cocaine.

  • Director
    • Umberto Lenzi
  • Writer
    • Umberto Lenzi
  • Stars
    • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
    • Lorraine De Selle
    • Danilo Mattei
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.1/10
    11K
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    • Director
      • Umberto Lenzi
    • Writer
      • Umberto Lenzi
    • Stars
      • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
      • Lorraine De Selle
      • Danilo Mattei
    • 167User reviews
    • 123Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Giovanni Lombardo Radice
    Giovanni Lombardo Radice
    • Mike Logan
    • (as John Morghen)
    Lorraine De Selle
    • Gloria Davis
    Danilo Mattei
    Danilo Mattei
    • Rudy Davis
    • (as Bryan Redford)
    Zora Kerova
    Zora Kerova
    • Pat Johnson
    • (as Zora Kerowa)
    Walter Lucchini
    • Joe Costolani
    • (as Walter Lloyd)
    Fiamma Maglione
    • Myrna Stenn
    • (as Meg Fleming)
    Robert Kerman
    Robert Kerman
    • Lt. Rizzo
    John Bartha
    John Bartha
    • Brooklyn Mobster
    Venantino Venantini
    Venantino Venantini
    • Sgt. Ross
    Miguel Ángel Rincón
    • Juanito
    • (as 'El Indio' Rincon)
    Giovanni Bergamini
    • Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Riccardo Petrazzi
    • Hunter
    • (uncredited)
    Perry Pirkanen
    Perry Pirkanen
    • Paul
    • (uncredited)
    Dominic Raacke
    Dominic Raacke
    • Tim Barrett
    • (uncredited)
    Jake Teague
    • Professor
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Umberto Lenzi
    • Writer
      • Umberto Lenzi
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    User reviews167

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    6EdIsInHell

    Cannibal Go Booooooooooom!

    This is one of the better cannibal boom films out there. Umberto Lenzi does a great job with the directing of this movie.

    Bong it up and burn it down.
    DJ Inferno

    The living nightmare of every censor!

    I love this flick, so am I perverted or even totally weird?!? None of both, because "Cannibal Ferox" is a great guilty pleasure and an excellent stare-if-you-dare-movie! It is banned in 31 countries and there are truly good reasons for that: nearly no film delivers such an immense load of explicit gore, blood and guts, castration and sadism as this one features! But even though you like to hear it or not, Lenzi´s film is pretty suspense-packed, full of dramatic and entertaining from beginning till the end! Once more the a whole zoo of animals was slaughtered and the most disgusting take is when in a nearly heart-braking scene a little tethered and despaired screaming anteater gets strangulated by a huge Anaconda! However this shot has an almost symbolic character in view of the plot... The cast includes such exploitation-greats like Robert Kerman ("Eaten Alive"), John Morghen ("Cannibal Apocalypse"), Perry Pirkanen ("Cannibal Holocaust") and in the first line the wonderful Zora Kerova ("The New York Ripper"), who makes some really bad experiences with meathooks at the unhappy end..! Faint-hearted persons will surely turn away in deeply disgust, however all those who threw their political correctness over board may surely enjoy this sick symphony of sheer cruelty!
    7Rathko

    The Biggest Shock Is That It's Good!

    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?).
    7noahbetancourt

    Good, cheap 80's horror.

    I just finished watching this movie, and it actually wasn't bad. The acting was a little cheesy and the plot was at first corny but it eventually picked up and became what it was supposed to be, a gory hard to watch cannibal movie. I didn't enjoy or was not happy with the animal deaths, but the movie was supposed to be shocking and hard to watch, and that is definitely what those scenes were. It had very good gore effects for 1981. The brain eating, the stomach eating, the hooked girl, and the other scenes of cannibalism were gross and pretty hard to watch. I guess I'm a gorehound, but most movies never really deliver on gore in my opinion. This one did, and that was all ready enough for it to be good. I also like the idea that the cannibals are not the real bad guys, and that we are. If you are a fan of horror movies, especially low budget exploitation horror, then this movie is for you. If you have a weak stomach then do not see this. Still haven't seen cannibal holocaust or any other Italian cannibal film sadly, so I don't have anything to compare this to.
    davelawrence666

    A few mates, on a Friday night, a few cans, snacks and a copy of this - you can't go wrong!

    You can't take it seriously. It's really silly, poorly acted and really cheesey in parts. But it does have a hefty bucket load of blood to keep gorehounds like my good self happy. Make sure to see it uncut, because to be honest, there isn't much else going for it(!) I just wish they left the animals alone in these films. But keep your eyes out for the highlights; the unfortunate John Morghen, who has his manhood sliced clean off and eaten by one of the Cannibals. This film is not as bad as it is supposed to be, though.

    Otherwise a good Cannibal flick, better than the rest of them, but naturally nowhere near as good as Deodato's masterpiece - Cannibal Holocaust, which sits safely on it's throne.

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    Related interests

    Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)
    B-Horror
    Florence Pugh in Midsommar (2019)
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    Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, and Karen Gillan in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
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    Adventure
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    • Trivia
      Like Cannibal Holocaust (1980), 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). Director Umberto Lenzi tried to convince Radice to do the killings by telling him, "De Niro [Robert De Niro] would do it," to which Radice responded, "De Niro would kick your ass all the way back to Rome."
    • Goofs
      When handed a watch by a tribesman, Myrna turns it over and says she had Mike's initials engraved on it. 'Mike Logan' appears in full, not just as initials.
    • Quotes

      Rudy: Why'd you kill her you bastard?!

      Mike Logan: Get off my case motherfucker!

    • Crazy credits
      One of the character's names is Gloria. Coincidentally, Gena Rowlands in "Gloria" is showing at the Embassy Times Square cinema during the junkie's walk through New York during the opening credits.
    • Alternate versions
      After spending many years as a banned Video Nasty the film was finally submitted to the BBFC in November 2000 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.
    • Connections
      Featured in Canibais e Solidão (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Red River Valley
      (uncredited)

      Written by James Kerrigen

      Sung by Lorraine De Selle and Zora Kerova

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    • Release date
      • November 11, 1983 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Horror caníbal
    • Filming locations
      • Amazon Rainforest, Colombia
    • Production companies
      • Dania Film
      • Medusa Distribuzione
      • National Cinematografica
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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