Cannibal Ferox

Original title: Cannibal ferox

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B-Horror Jungle Adventure Adventure Horror

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.

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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

Mafioso

Venantino Venantini

Sgt. Ross

Miguel Ángel Rincón

Juanito
(as 'El Indio' Rincon)

Giovanni Bergamini

Clerk
(uncredited)

Riccardo Petrazzi

Hunter
(uncredited)

Perry Pirkanen

Paul
(uncredited)

Dominic Raacke

Tim Barrett
(uncredited)

Jake Teague

Professor
(uncredited)

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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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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!