Also released as
- Make Them Die Slowly
- Woman from Deep River
- Canibal Ferox
- Jaget af kannibaler
- Terreur cannibale
- Argos thanatos
- Lefki sarka sta dontia tous
- Na pethanoun arga
- Hitokui zoku
- Hazlos morir lentamente
- Cannibal ferox: Niech umieraja powoli
- Kanibale
- Horror Cannibal
- De Kannibalen Vallen Aan
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Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Ferox is a 1981 Italian cannibal film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.
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Lenzi chasing Deodato, and the gap between them is the whole story of this cycle.
Cannibal Holocaust had an argument about mondo and the manufacture of savagery. This was sold on the claim that it had been banned in 31 countries, a figure reference works describe as dubious.
It was sold in the United States as Make Them Die Slowly and marketed almost entirely on being unwatchable. The infamous sequences are the hook and the film has nothing underneath them.
More animals were killed, which is why it remains cut in the UK and will stay cut: the BBFC does not pass genuine cruelty and has been consistent about it for forty years.
It is on the site because the DPP list is documented in full and this was one of the 39 successfully prosecuted. As an evening it is a slog with four minutes of notoriety in it.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
UK video title Make Them Die Slowly
Marketed on the claim that it was banned in 31 countries, a figure reference works describe as dubious.
UK now Passed 18 with cuts to animal cruelty footage
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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- Cannibal Holocaust and the fifteen seconds still banned
Cannibal Holocaust carries an 18 certificate in Britain with fifteen seconds still cut, one slow animal killing held out under the 1937 animal cruelty Act.
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