Cannibal Ferox (1981)
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First thing I note is the music. It's nothing as amazing a
Ruggero
Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust's haunting theme or the masterpiece
waltz
from A Tale of Two Sisters, but I don't let that stop me so
early in
the film.
One must assume that the woman researching her hypothesis for
her PHd
dissertation that cannibalism as a organized practice has never
existed, one would think they must take into the consideration
that
they are wrong and prepare for the trip accordingly right? Or
why go at
all if you already believe the hypothesis to be true before
even being
tested? That's fairly unbelievably ignorant and makes the movie
seem
that much more unrealistic and badly scripted.
That actually is similar to the Ruggero Deodato's film, just
totally
ill-prepared. No guns, no decent hiking clothing, just nonsense
through
and through.
People don't go on trips like this for college without months
of
planning and preparation.
But I digress...
Things don't get off to a very good start for our brave yet
stupid
adventurers as they swerve to miss a jaywalking iguana, and
their decoy
pet ferret falls out of the truck nearly to it's demise, then
to fall
into a mud hole, well I guess it's time to walk.
Okay then they flip a coin to see whether they keep going or
forget the
whole thing. How does that scene even make any sense? All their
conviction rests on the flip of a coin? After they must've spent
time,
and money, and preparation just getting out there. This just
keeps
getting worse. Defiinitely some of the worst acting and scripting
and
music ever concocted for the film industry.
Mike talks about how he and his friend's were captured by the
cannibals
and put into cages in mud pits with 3 inch long leeches sucking
on
their blood. I found that interesting because if you remember
the first
cannibal they run into in the jungle, a man they mistake as
a simple
native, is sitting on the ground eating such leeches... wonder
if they
are the same ones? Really though this movie is just terrible
because
the script is horrible and the acting is emotionless considering
the
content. They just agree to off themselves rather then get eaten
by
cannibals like it's no big decision.
Obviously Mike is insane, but just like in the first movie
they treat
the natives with such terrible behavior it's simply unrealistic.
Ruggero Deodato's movie easily feels the Americans got what
they
deserved, while in this movie one can hardly blame the natives
for what
befalls the Americans yet again.
And because of that the movie feels somewhat pointless. We
already got
the point from the first movie, so why was the sequel made?
The
lieutenant's name is Rizzo?! Could it get any worse? Oftentimes
with
movies such as these when you look up the cast you find they
haven't
really acted in much other films and their biographies are all
but non
existent, so you can imagine I was surprised to find Giovanni
Lombardo
Radice in this movie who was in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
Now Lt.
Rizzo looked familiar and I found he was in the 2002 movie Spiderman
as
a very tiny role as a tugboat captain. Reminds me of how William
Shatner went from being the admiral on the USS Enterprise to
a cop in a
car. Irony, sometimes irony works out. Shatner never could get
the
music right until his recent album "Has Been" which
is really good,
just like Bono of U2 never could get a haircut right, and Dan
Marino
never could win no Superbowls.
Sometimes irony is just sad, like Christopher Reeve, Superman
can't
walk irony. The man will always be a legend though because he
was such
a great guy, I digress yet again though.
At this point you can tell I'm fairly bored of even discussing
Cannibal
Ferox.
Cannibal Holocaust's message was about who are the real savages
and
what is truly evil? What the savages do in natural living unknown
to
our moral records, or what we do to others with malicious intent?
Cannibal Ferox's message seems to be 'Be careful what you go
looking
for, for you just might find it.' I will say this for Cannibal
Ferox.
When Gloria comes back and writes her dissertation, asserting
that
Cannibalism does NOT exist, she saves others who would be curious
and
go where angels fear tread, but overall this movie was really
bad.
