Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Sam Panico What happens when you throw assassins in New York City, cannibals in the jungle and a Jim Jones-like cult leader into a big pot and set it to boil? You get Eaten Alive!Sheila (Janet Agren, City of the Living Dead, Hands of Steel) is searching for her sister, Diana (Paola Senatore, Emanuelle in America) who has disappeared in the jungle. She hires Mark (Robert Kerman, Cannibal Holocaust) to help her find her way through the jungle. Oh yeah - and there are killers in the city using blowdarts. That doesn't matter so much once we're in the jungle.When they find Diana - after being chased by cannibals - they learn that she has joined the cult of Jonas (Ivan Rassimov, everyone cheer when he shows up to make this movie awesome), who abuses, murders, manipulates and ********* everyone and anyone he gets close to. Seriously, the minute Jonas shows up, this film goes off the rails. First, he burns a man on a funeral pyre and ordering his wife Mowara (Me Me Lai, who thanks to appearances in this film, Last Cannibal World and Man from Deep River is pretty much to this genre as Edwich Fenech, Barbara Bouchet or Nieves Navaro are to giallo)to be ritually raped. Then, he hypnotizes Sheila and takes her on an altar using a snake phallus covered in venom and blood (yep, really). He pretty much owns everyone he can get his hands on, but Mowara, Sheila,Jonas preaches the Book of Isiah and pretty much owns everyone he can get his hands on, but Mowara, Sheila, Mark and Diana all attempt to escape. Diana and Mowara are overtaken by cannibals, with Diana graphically devoured while her sister and Mark watch helplessly. A helicopter arrives at the last minute to save them while the film goes into full exploitation mode, with the cult killing themselves ala Jonestown, leaving only one female survivor.Oh man, I forgot! Mel Ferrer (The Visitor, Nightmare City) shows up as a professor!Director Umberto Lenzi knows how to make a down and dirty film. He also knows how to keep it entertaining. Just witness other films he's done like Ghosthouse! Plus, he's the master of recycling, as this film re-uses the crocodile death and a woman being eaten from his 1972 film Sacrifice! (also starring Rassimov and Me Me Lai), Me Me Lai's death from Ruggero Deodato's Jungle Holocaust and a castration, a monkey being devoured by a monkey and a man being eaten by a crocodile from Sergio Martino's Slave of the Cannibal God. You could say he...cannibalized those movies! Sorry.Again, keep in mind that these are rough films. They're nearly indefensible, to be honest. I kind of wish the story of Jonas and his cult was more of the movie, with less of the cannibals. But you know, I can't send notes back to Lenzi with a time machine or anything!

TheBlueHairedLawyer Eaten Alive, although very low-budget, had the potential to be at least a campy, funny horror film, and there were some disgusting looking gore effects. It seems to copy the Jonestown Massacre, which did actually happen in reality.Unfortunately, this film was filled with rape scenes that are violent, disturbing, gross and degrading to women. I'd rather not know what kind of actors/actresses would agree to be in these scenes, but it was basically one long pornographic film, which I wasn't expecting. It was horrible, pornography is disgusting and pervy and they really overdid it in this film. Too bad, because it did have some half-decent soundtrack.All I can say is, unless you're a dirty old man or a pervy teenage kid, don't watch this, you're better off not viewing it.

lastliberal While this film by Umberto Lenzi was not declared a "video nastie," his last film for the cannibal connoisseur, Cannibal Ferox, was. There is another film called Eaten Alive (or Death Trap), directed by Tobe Hooper, and featuring Robert Englund, that is also a video nasty. This belongs in the same genre; it just may have snuck by the censors.One thing that I found noteworthy was the quality of the film. The Sri Lanka countryside is beautiful, and the cinematography, both inside and out, is extremely good. The dubbing quality, although I prefer subtitles, is also very good.Shiela (Janet Agren) heads into the jungle to find her sister Diana (Paola Senatore), who has joined a Jim Jones type cult. They practice drinking the kool aid for the big day to come.Like any good cult leader he has women running around topless, and has strange rituals that call for the widow of a man to lie in his ashes and taken his three brothers in view of the whole camp. Of course, he manages to get his share, too.All around them are cannibals, and it is in this situation that Mark (Robert Kerman) must help the women to escape.Mascetomies, castration, lots of bushes (it is the jungle, after all), and a Jim Jones type ending with the predicable deux ex machina arriving at a critical moment.

Steve Van Kooten Contains nudity/rape, blood both original and ripped off, a scene of body painting. A cult that has its HQ in the middle of a jungle infested by evil cannibals receives some unwanted visitors in the form a young woman (and company) who are looking for her lost sister. - - - Made after "Man From Deep River" and before "Cannibal Ferox," this is Lenzi's weakest cannibal movie, but it's also the least offensive. Much of the gore and animal killings were taken from other movies, but the plot that has been interjected between them is nearly jaw dropping in its ridiculousness. All the fun that comes from this one is because the movie is so concerned with being absolutely retarded that it becomes humorous. Most importantly, it keeps attention through the run time and threw in just enough sleaze to sate my thirst(without overdoing it like the genre is known). Mediocre, but I think that's being rather kind.* * out of 4