![]() This was my first journey into the Cannibal genre, and if I can get my hands on Cannibal Holocaust, it won't be my last. It's interesting that when animals are butchered for your viewing pleasure in Italian exploitation movies it's banned in a dozen countries, but when Coppola does it (far less humanely) in Apocalypse Now, it's art. On the few occasions in which people actively kill animals, they do so quickly and efficiently, and there's no sense that the animals are suffering, or no more than they would in the average abattoir. The much criticized animal cruelty really isn't as bad as everyone tries to make out usually consisting of little more than Discovery Channel style documentary footage of animals chasing and killing each other. The gore is minimal but effective a blink and you'll miss it latex castration and a rather more shocking breast-on-hook impalement. The whole New York subplot stinks of running-time-filler and could be totally done away with. Zora Kerova looks like she wandered in from the set of Friday 13th Part II, all blond curls and pert tits, and suffers the consequences. Lorraine De Selle is great, trying to take the whole thing seriously while Giovanni Lombardo Radice chews the scenery around her with leering, bog-eyed abandon. The storyline, acting and production values were as solid as you could expect from such a multi-lingual low budget exploitation flick, especially considering the amount of outdoor location shooting, and Grindhouse have done a really good job with the remastering. I was shocked to find that Cannibal Ferox really isn't a bad movie at all. ![]() I expected absolutely nothing from this movie, other than completely amateurish nonsense in the vein of an updated Hershell Gordon Lewis. ![]() All I know is that it was the recent Grindhouse Releasing version. There are so many versions of this movie floating around that I have absolutely no idea what was cut from the version I saw, and what wasn't.
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