Too much of everything

Absolutely the worst movie.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Eaten Alive follows a young woman (Janet Agren) who searches for her lost sister. Turns out her sister have joined a sect that has disappeared into the jungles of Borneo. With Vietnam veteran Mark at her side she sets off to find her sister.As per usual, the acting isn't of the highest quality but you do get cannibal flick poster girl Me Me Lai spending most of the time on screen with her breast bare, female lead Janet Agren covered in gold paint and abused with a dildo dipped in snake blood among other things. Now that's gotta count for something! But, I must say that I find it bit hard to recommend this title. If you are fan of the genre, you will most likely recognize every gore scene in the movie bar a select few. And I mean that literally. A lot of the gore scenes are lifted straight out other Cannibal movies, like MAN FROM DEEP RIVER and LAST CANNIBAL WORLD. There's probably more movies stuck in there.Ultimately, this is one for die-hard fans to check off their list. If you haven't seen any Italian jungle movies, you'd be better off watching CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and if you're an avid fan, you have seen most of the gore scenes in other movies.

I'm a pretty big fan of the cannibal genre and I find this to be one of my favorite cannibal movies. Eaten alive is in my opinion extremely underrated and not nearly as appreciated as it should be. It is everything you want a cannibal film to be. It contains violent and graphic death scenes, dismemberment and rape. Some of the scenes are only stock footage from other cannibal movies, but it all adds up to that exploitation trashy feeling we all came to see. I mean, it's an exploitation movie from Lenzi. That's what you get. There is a lot of fast zooming and bad scripting which is hilariously entertaining.It may not be as good as Cannibal Holocaust, and it is certainly not as violent and gruesome as Cannibal Holocaust. But overall it is a highly entertaining and cheesy cannibal movie which delivers the goods. If can also recommend JUNGLE HOLOCAUST, CANNIBAL FEROX and ZOMBI HOLOCAUST.

Eaten Alive is a little film that opens in New York city and the arctic where tribe men shoot snake venom at a few people,then a woman enters the police precinct who's trying to find her sister that has disappeared after 6 months Sheila is from Alabama,but her accent sucks,she is teamed up with an adventurer who seems to just want her money and seems to say it a lot throughout the film.They venture through the amazon only to find a community with people and they find the sister,they're confronted by a mad man who has probably seen one too many Jim Jones preaches.He will bring them to a better place,it could be heaven but no,Mark and Sheila find out later its actually a suicide cult.Why do I call Eaten Alive a "little film"? Ill tell you but when I watched it,I was floored through all the run ins with the cannibals,Robert Kerman has a different role than his professor in Cannibal Holocaust.He's a bit annoying,once we meet him at an arm wrestling match that looked like Russian roulette we know hes one tough guy.Plus the strong misogyny just makes you cringe and it looked like I saw it somewhere,oh the scenes of animals killing each other.But the whole film revolves on those scenes,its like were actually watching a images of nature with parts of a film But after watching this film I realized that most of the films scenes are taken from other cannibal films,even the demise of 2 of the characters,well..most of the film is.That's why I call this a little film,when I did found out that scenes were borrowed I felt like throwing the disc across the room,this isn't a film just a simple montage of sorts .

In New York an assassin is knocking off targeted victims with a dart soaked in Cobra venom and while trying to escape, he gets killed in a car accident. This leads to a young lady who heads to New Guinea to find her older sister, after the police discover on the assassin an item that belonged to her missing sister. She and a fellow American guide she hires when she gets there, head out on a journey through the wild wilderness filled exotically dangerous animals and blood thirsty cannibals to reach a purification cult colony led by an sadistically influential and crazy leader. I'm basically a new comer to the sub-genre, which has caught my curiosity in more recent times. I've seen one or two cannibal films, but it has never really struck me until now. Umberto Lenzi's "Eaten Alive" was never really on my hit list either, but I was just craving something different and it just happened to be near by for a nice price. While, it might not be held up in high regards with "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Cannibal Ferox", I found it to be a mildly amusing and reasonable addition to the list. It starts off oddly enough, despite a slow beginning to proceedings and then it finally hits its straps in the closing half. Lenzi added something else to the rancid ingredients. The cannibal element of the story felt more like a supporting part to the religious cult of fanatics who believe in purification. These inserts of the cult group got very silly and tend to drag in the latter scenes. While, the exploitive cannibal feeding and mutilations is primly nasty and sick, it can get quite cheesy and uninspired in its repetitive actions, because its so over-the-top to take seriously. Must love the cannibals' wigs and ever-changing appearances. One question is that do they always happen to be hungry when they encounter someone. Although the animal violence was more often genuine footage. Every now and then it takes some time off the story to look at the animals. Cue in when animals attack by pitting them against each other! Is this suppose to desensitize us to what's about to come? As it seemed more like it was there to pad out the film. Lenzi stacks up some memorably sleazy scenes in very trashy doses. The camera-work has that hectic semi-documentary style that likes its close ups and a kicking soundtrack with a funky rhythm. The unexciting script provides a lot useless chatter and constant ringing of… $80,000. How much was it again? $80,000. Did get a bit on the annoying side. Although, not as much as the atrociously wretched dubbing. Awful it was! From this it's hard to grasp that of the performances, but I guess they were fair. The divine looking Janet Agren and Paola Senatore are acceptable as the two sisters. Robert Kerma makes a decent turn as the hired guide and Ivan Rassimov is strikingly good as the venomous cult leader. Mei Mei Lai appears and Mel Ferrer in a minor role. What's served up on the menu? A hammy cult coot with trashy cannibalistic entertainment slanted on the side.