- Actors: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Paola Senatore, Me Me Lai
- Directors: Umberto Lenzi
- Writers: Umberto Lenzi
- Producers: Luciano Martino, Mino Loy
- Format: Anamorphic, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Shriek Show
- DVD Release Date: 26 Nov 2002
- Run Time: 92 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00006FDBO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 63,023 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An entertaining rag-bag of cannibalism, "Jim Jones-ploitation" and action film. Briefly, Southern belle Sheila is searching for her lost long sister who disappeared in the jungle and resurfaced in a mondo 8mm film found on the body of an assassin. Hiring desperado Mark they head out to New Guinea only to meet cannibals and a demented cult run by Jonas (the films Jim Jones character), a cocktail of kool aid and cannibalism follows, "special guest star" Mel Ferrer phones in his cameo
from NYC. Two interesting points shine in Eaten Alive, the titles set against 42nd Street grindhouses and wedded to a disco-era rendition of the theme from Cannibal Ferox, and the presence of East Coast XXX actor Robert Kerman, who as R. Bolla was eaten alive in a more normal fashion in movies that played the aforementioned forty deuce. Kerman/Bolla puts in a fine performance as a grisly but likeable seen it all type. How New Yorker Kerman came to appear in nearly all Italian
cannibal films must be a story in itself. When it opened in the UK, Eaten Alive had one of the most strongest posters ever seen from Wardour Street, a blood splattered depiction of Me Me Lai's demise, it left people shell shocked and was remembered years after. Then and now however Eaten Alive has been much butchered by the censors, at last count by 5 minutes 42 seconds. Gone are blood caked cannibalism, national geographic animal butchery and some kinky stuff at Jonas place, alas Me Me's demise has also bit the dust. Something you'll never realise then is that Umberto Lenzi perhaps sensing the genre had run its course, recycles moments from his own Deep River Savages, and competitor Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal, making Eaten Alive a greatest hits package "Now that what I call Anthropophagous" if you will. British DVD's live in fear of censorship cuts that instantly curtail their value, but they are also damned by a lack of extras-(audio commentaries, trailers etc). In this respect Eaten Alive suffers both externally and internally, a number of stills are short change indeed. Even seen cut Eaten Alive is a fine exploitation thriller, but there is a sense of compromise, the question is how much is the worth of a film called Eaten Alive that no longer contains anyone being Eaten Alive?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Made by Umberto Lenzi directly before he made the cult cannibal classic "Cannibal Ferox", "Eaten Alive" is a slightly milder trial version of Ferox to some extent. "Cannibal Holocaust's" Robert Kerman stars as an american adventurer who helps a rich heiress track down her long lost sister who has absconded with a religious evangelist and his cult to the jungles of New Guinea.
Whilst not as well known as the 2 other films i mentioned, Eaten Alive is a pretty good cannibal flick, some of the footage has been recycled from Lenzi's "Deep river savages" and the score is virtually identical to the one later used in Ferox, so this has obviously been made on the cheap, but for the most part this looks identical in scope to the other films.
As usual with Italian cannibal films, there are several scenes of animal cruelty, something Robert Kerman was disgusted about when he made "Cannibal holocaust" and spoke very strongly against it's use when the films came out.
Sadly though the U.K DVD version is butchered ( no pun intended!) beyond belief, of course the animal cruelty scenes are all gone/or cut ( rightly so) but unfortunately most of the gore has been cut as well, thankfully the U.S and European versions are all uncut, so don't bother with the U.K release, just buy the Region 1 version instead. The Shriek Show release is probably the best as it features a good 1.85 framed widescreen presentation and a good array of extras including interviews with Lenzi and Kerman.
If your a fan of Grindhouse movies then you'll likely get a kick out of this.
Whilst not as well known as the 2 other films i mentioned, Eaten Alive is a pretty good cannibal flick, some of the footage has been recycled from Lenzi's "Deep river savages" and the score is virtually identical to the one later used in Ferox, so this has obviously been made on the cheap, but for the most part this looks identical in scope to the other films.
As usual with Italian cannibal films, there are several scenes of animal cruelty, something Robert Kerman was disgusted about when he made "Cannibal holocaust" and spoke very strongly against it's use when the films came out.
Sadly though the U.K DVD version is butchered ( no pun intended!) beyond belief, of course the animal cruelty scenes are all gone/or cut ( rightly so) but unfortunately most of the gore has been cut as well, thankfully the U.S and European versions are all uncut, so don't bother with the U.K release, just buy the Region 1 version instead. The Shriek Show release is probably the best as it features a good 1.85 framed widescreen presentation and a good array of extras including interviews with Lenzi and Kerman.
If your a fan of Grindhouse movies then you'll likely get a kick out of this.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
From the first reel to the last, this has to be one of the most amazingly bad films ever created. Acting, dialogue, plot, and editing are so bad they make Garth Marenghi's Darkplace look like The Deer Hunter. The opening sequence, where a derranged tribesman runs around New York firing poisoned darts at random people only to be promptly run over by a bus, is not even possible to describe in words. The Funky disco soundtrack is completely out of place. The main lead guy frequently smacks the main woman around the face when she becomes hysterical, actually punching her square in the face towards the end of the film, and every time they seem to make up within 10 seconds. The strange colony they visit in the jungle to rescue her sister looks like something out of a Star Trek episode where they visit a new planet, complete with loony cult leader on a corrupted mission for 'peace'. And strangely enough there is no cannibalism to be seen anywhere in the film. 'Eaten Alive' is like a masterclass in badness. Pure entertainment, a million stars.
*The reviewer who says this is Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Texas Chainsaw is talking about a different film.
*The reviewer who says this is Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Texas Chainsaw is talking about a different film.
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