Hungry For Flesh? Top 10 Third World Cannibal Films!
Steve Barton
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CANNIBAL FEROX (aka MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY) (1981)
In many ways, this is a more impactful film than even CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. Once again featuring John Morghen and directed by genre staple Umberto Lenzi, this film was given a pristine going-over by Grindhouse Releasing a while ago. This journey into depravity features fun little moments like a breast impalement / suspension, a penis severing, and gratuitous intestine chomping. The film gets a little preachy toward the end, but the overall impact makes it one of the best.
A plane goes down in the jungle and, of course, the survivors wander into Cannibal Country (“Where the flavor is…”). Crocodiles, piranha, quicksand, pythons, and rattlesnakes (?!?) are the least of their worries when the cannibal hordes show up. As if that wasn’t enough, a white megalomaniac jungle lord takes them prisoner and, well… you get the idea. Acting is what you’ve come to expect. Direction is as well. Some decent gore FX make this a fun viewing.
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