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Cannibal Ferox also known as Make them die slowly is Umberto Lenzi's 1981 variation on Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. The film is one of many to claim that it is the "most violent film ever made". Promotional material for the film claimed it was banned in thirty-one countries and the VHS box also stated this claim on the cover in big letters. This has never been verified though, especially since the specific 31 countries have never been listed.

Plot

The film is in the mold of a survivalist adventure yarn set in the Amazon jungle, with set-pieces including animal mutilation, eye-gouging, castration, cannibalism (as the title suggests), and a live and screaming female victim impaled through both breasts by suspended iron hooks, identical to the ritual Richard Harris endured in A Man Called Horse
. John Morghen (AKA Giovanni Lombardo Radice) stars as a drug-crazed, womanizing lout, and porn star Robert Kerman (the star of Deodato's film) turns up as a world-weary New York detective.

Cannibal Ferox was released uncut on video in England circa 1982 by Replay, but the film's transgressive imagery promted it to be quickly banned under the Obscene Publications Act, finding itself languishing for years on the video nasties list. The most complete version currently available on DVD in the UK is missing around six minutes of footage.

Trivia

In an interview on the old Living-Dead.com horror site, Giovanni Lombardo Radice stated that he wished he had never portrayed Mike Logan in 'Cannibal Ferox'.

A pig was actually killed, as was also confessed by Lombardo Radice. He explained further into the Living-Dead interview that he somehow avenged the pig by almost cutting the 'killer of the pig's' hand off because he refused to kill it himself. This happened in the scene as we see it on screen, as Lombardo Radice's job was to somehow hold a bowl under or above the knife. Pressure was applied and the force thereof almost sliced off the stage-hand's hand - no pun intended.

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