#219: Cannibal ferox, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1981

Country: Italy

Format: DVD

Cannibal Ferox is not for everyone. This movie is promoted as very violent and actually banned in 31 countries. Hard to find you may need to special order it from an Amazon source. The movie was created by the prolific Italian director Umberto Lenzi (65 movies to his credit between the '60s and the 90's most of which being war/action or horror titles). This is clearly defined as an exploitation genre movie and it's production quality is not great.

The story is that of a group of friends who set out to accompany a young anthopologist who is out to prove that Cannibalism is nothing but a myth. They follow the tracks of rumours of canniballistic tribes in the deep Amazonian forest. Obviously they run into trouble and team up with two other people who are in trouble as well. The situation degenerates from there as the folks they met up with turn out to be be ruthless drug addicts in search for quick money by taking advantage of the locals by killing in mistreating them. That is until the locals decide to get revenge... This movie will take you to the limits of what is publishable on video in terms of violence, rapes and mutilations. I would even say beyond because this was the early '80s and some scenes done to real animals would not be accepted today. Only for explorers of the limits of what can be seen on film.

Cannibal Ferox n'est pas un film pour tous. On fait la promotion de ce film par son extreme violence et par le fait qu'il est banni dans plus de 31 pays (Record Guiness). Umberzo Lenzi en est le realisateur (il a realise plus de 65 film des annees 60 a 90 surout oriente guerre/action et horreur). Ce film est clairement identifie comme un film du genre exploitation et la qualite de la production laisse souvent a desire.

L'histoire est celle d'une anthropologue des US qui se rend en Amazonie afin de prouver que le cannibalisme n'est qu'un mythe. Elle est accompagnee par deux de ses amis et ils se trouvent rapidement perdus dans les trefonds des jungles amazoniennes. La ils rencontrent deux autres individus douteux avec lesquels ils s'allient. Malheureusement ce ne fut pas un bon choix car ils sont des drogues dangeureux qui tuent et exploitent les aborigenes locaux dans leur quete d'argent vite fait. Ceci excalade jusqu'au moment ou les aborigenes decident de se revenger...

Ce film vous emmenera aux limites de ce qui est presentable sur les grand ecrans tel violence, viols, mutilations. Je dirait meme que la violence faites aux animaux pendant le tournage serait maintenant banni entierement. Ce film n'est pas frappant en bout de ligne meme si les effets speciaux y sont fait avec bon effort. A voir seulement par les amateurs de sensations fortes qui explorent les limites des films disponibles sur le marche.

Great quotes:
Rudy: What a wasted vacation.
Gloria Davis: And maybe our lives too.
Rudy: Yeah...
...
Gloria Davis: [Pat runs to eat a piece of meat] No! Stop! It might be Rudy!
...
Gloria Davis: Oh God, please let her die soon. Oh, let her die soon. And let me die soon too, please.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082700/maindetails

Entertainment rating: 6/10
Cast/acting rating: 4/10
Artistic rating: 3/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 4/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 1/10
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Overall personnal rating: 4/10