Sam Panico Make Them Die Slowly. With an alternate title like that, you know what you're getting into here. You're getting into Umberto Lenzi's (Eaten Alive, Spasmo, Man from Deep River, Eyeball) dark and depraved voyage into the world of cocaine-addled maniacs battling cannibals. Beware.Considered to be "the most violent film ever made" and "banned in 31 countries," Cannibal Ferox is packed with both simulated and real violence (the credits should probably read animals were harmed during the filming of this motion picture). It's all about a gang of malcontents who make the dumb mistake of not only going into the jungle, but screwing with the wrong people.In New York City, Mike (Giovanni Lombardo Radice, City of the Living Dead, Stagefright) is on the run from the mob, as he owes them $100,000.Meanwhile, in Paraguay, brother and sister Rudy and Gloria (Lorraine De Selle, Emanuelle in America) and their friend Pat (Zora Kerova, The New York Ripper) are heading into the rainforest. Gloria has a theory that cannibalism is a myth and wants to prove it. They run into Mike and his partner Joe, who have run afoul of some cannibals. Soon, Gloria goes missing and everyone starts to look for her.Soon, Mike's having sex with Pat, doing coke and trying to get her to rape a native girl, as you do. She can't do it, so Mike kills the girl as Joe reveals - as he dies - that they were responsible for making the cannibals go wild as the result of exploiting them for emeralds and cocaine. Turns out killing and torturing natives isn't new to Mike!After Joe dies, the cannibals find and consume his body while everyone is captured and forced to watch Mike get tortured and beaten. Back in New York City, the mobsters are still looking for Mike, along with the cops (who include Lt. Rizzo among the number, who is played by Robert Kerman, a former porn actor who also appeared in Cannibal Holocaust and Eaten Alive!)Rudy tries to escape, but he is caught in a trap in the jungle and attacked by piranhas before the natives kill him with a poison dart.Pat and Gloria are put in a hole while Mike is in a cage. A native man tries to help the women escape, as Pat had saved him after the virgin was killed. However, Mike screws it all up for everyone and runs into the jungle to escape. The natives slice his hand off and recapture him. And then they show off their brains, as they tell a search and rescue party that the outsiders all died after a crocodile attack.Gloria can only bear witness to Pat being hung by her breasts until she is dead and Mike's skull being cracked open and eaten. The native who tried to help before now frees Gloria and they run through the desert before another trap kills him. Luckily, Gloria finds some trappers who rescue her. She tells them the same story as the natives: everyone else was killed by crocodiles.Once Gloria returns to New York, she writes a book that supports her theory and continues the lies called Cannibalism: End of a Myth.This movie is a fine piece of cannibal filth, but is tainted by the real animal deaths. Giovanni Lombardo Radice objected and refused to participate, leading Lenzi to say, "De Niro would do it." Radice replied, "De Noro would kick your ass all the way back to Rome." The stand-in who did the actual killing was cut so badly that he almost severed a main artery, which Radice looked at as karma. I agree.

Stephen Abell This is an atrociously dire film in every way. The only silver lining was the premise of the story where three student anthropologists enter the Columbian jungles with the naive aim of disproving cannibalism. They come across a couple of adventures who claim to have escaped from a cannibal tribe after they had devoured their colleague. It's the twist in the story that could have saved this film had it been correctly explored and utilised. This, however, isn't the case and there just isn't anything else that makes this a film to watch.Other reviews state the film is so bad that it unintentionally makes you laugh... that wasn't my case. What writer and director Umberto Lenzi gives his viewers is a lesson in the banal, boring, and tedious.From the previously mentioned wasted story issue to the under-acted, over-acted, and wooden performances of the cast to the uninteresting and dreary direction to the worst and insipid locations available, this is a bad film.However, there are a few issues which did earn it the rating I gave. I did like the twist in the tale which wasn't fully envisioned. There were actual moments when the cast got serious and wasn't too bad in their roles. Even Giovanni Lombardo Radice, who was mostly ludicrously over-the-top, actually had a couple of moments where he was menacing and believable. Then there was the glorious gorefest of the special effects, though these are expected to be bad, they never fail to entertain; the scene of the penis extraction brought a wince to my face. However, even the effects aren't without their errors. The way they are filmed is so matter-of-fact that they lose their shock value.Then, of course, there's the animal cruelty as you are witness to the killing of a turtle and a wild boar. I do hope these animals were to be used as sustenance and were subsequently eaten. I must admit to not liking the thought of them being killed and then discarded for entertainment's sake, as these scenes were not required for the story.This is not the best cannibal film: For the best story and acting, watch Cannibal Holocaust For an interesting twist on the genre, better story and acting, try Cannibal Apocalypse For the best jungle location, I suggest you watch The Man From Deep RiverThough, I will say I do not find the cannibal genre that interesting and even though these are better than Ferox they're still not brilliant.

Johan Louwet The problem I have with this movie is not that it is that bad as my rating suggests but I'm unable not to compare them to other cannibal movies coming before this one namely Jungle Holocaust and Cannibal Holocaust. These cannibal movies have in my opinion a much more interesting story and characters. This movie however takes a bit of the things from the previous movies plus it never really seems to get going. The starting point of the girl wanting to disprove cannibalism is an interesting one. But do we really get to see that much of what the cannibals do like in the other movies I mentioned, no not at all. It is all quite boring to watch with very little character development. The only ones to care about are Gloria and her brother Rudy oh yes and the guy whose leg was injured. The ending was quite satisfying I must say but at that point I stopped caring how it would pan out. No this was overall a big disappointment to me.

Max Renn Cannibal films were all the rage in the 70s and 80s. This was mainly in Italy and due to Deodato, who directed the acclaimed Cannibal Holocaust, and the first real cannibal film Jungle Holocaust, that was just a test run before the big show. Cannibal Holocaust's success was due to the films unbelievable brutality and the awesome marketing. The hand-held camera, the research crew and the "accidentally found" film wasn't invented by the Blair Witch Project but by Cannibal Holocaust and Ruggero Deaodato. Of course the Italian copies made after the classic are nowhere near the same quality and are lacking in the whole production that surrounded it. One type of copy just kept the cannibals and became an adventure movie, the other type just built on the brutality, the second is the case with Cannibal Ferox. The producers didn't leave anything to chance so they hired someone who was at home in every genre Umberto Lenzi. Lenzi pounded out two films just to be sure on was Cannibal Ferox. It is one of the best copies of Cannibal Holocaust. Lenzi does his job perfectly, 'cause what is the point of a film like this? That is brutal and faced paced and this film is those things. After Holocaust this film has the most brutal visuals, but that's just one of the important parts of the film. Apart from that the director gives us a great atmosphere too. Helping it along is the professional cinematography and the awesome music that was also used in Eaten Alive. The actors can't be criticized either they are Italian stars, they were just as good at playing Americans as the actors in Cannibal Holocaust. We can just come right out and say the script is garbage, but with these types of films it would be a miracle if they weren't that. Unfortunately it follows in Holocausts footsteps by killing animals for real and that's reprehensible. It is interesting that just like all the rest of the great Italian productions it has a bunch of names. In Australia it was Woman from Deep River based on a previous Lenzi film and Make Them Die Slowly in the States and the tagline wasn't even about this film. In conclusion I'll just say if you liked Cannibal Holocaust I Ferox is a must see. If you didn't then run far far away. It's only really problem is that after Holocaust its basically just a copy, but it had potential to be more but Lenzi was satisfied with just making a good clone. 6/10 https://www.youtube.com/user/silverscreenreviews1