Length: 4 min. Producer: Grindhouse Releasing Director: Umberto Lenzi
Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made". Claims were also made in promotional material that Cannibal Ferox was banned in 31 countries, though the official list of countries that have banned it ...expand text.
Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made". Claims were also made in promotional material that Cannibal Ferox was banned in 31 countries, though the official list of countries that have banned it has never been released also, many countries that originally banned the film have since lifted the bans.
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' character endured in A Man Called Horse. John Morghen AKA Giovanni Lombardo Radice stars as a drug-crazed, womanizing lout, and porn star Robert Kerman turns up as a world-weary New York detective. Close text
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' character endured in A Man Called Horse. John Morghen AKA Giovanni Lombardo Radice stars as a drug-crazed, womanizing lout, and porn star Robert Kerman turns up as a world-weary New York detective. Close text