Eaten Alive [1986] (DVD)

Yet another cannibal film from Umberto Lenzi, the man behind ‘Cannibal Ferox’, which stars Janet Agren, a true Euro-horror stalwart who will perhaps be best known for her role in Fulci’s ‘City of the Living Dead’, Eaten Alive! is a film of considerable pedigree in the world of tacky seventies (? — no actual date is given) dubbed Italian gore-fests. The film opens at a tourist location next to Niagara Falls, in which a man who is seemingly walking along and minding his own business is suddenly shot with a blow-pipe for no apparent reason by a strange-looking man in a heavy jacket who then flees the scene. This sequence of ...

This film is a completely sick cannibal film directed by the infamous sick director Umberto Lenzi, who also directed Cannibal Ferox, which was banned in about 51 countries as being a video nasty. The film revolves around a girl who is searching for her long lost sister Diana, who has apparently run off with some religious cult, that operates a purification sect in the South American jungles of New Guinea. Sheila sets out to find her and hires a former Vietnam veteran Mark to help her find the location of the cults headquarters. The pair trek through the inhospitable jungle and unfortunately, they encounter an alligator that overturns the boat and ...

*This applies to the full uncut version of the film* Shelia's (Janet Agren) sister has gone missing, she has ran off to South America to join a weird religious cult with a freaky leader Jonas(Ivan Rassimov). So Shelia asks Mark Butler (Robert Kerman, also in cannibal holocaust)who fought in Vietnam to help her relocate and rescue her sister Diane. They set off but on the way a crocodile makes a meal of one of the guides and they are forced travel on foot. Whilst on foot they meet a local cannibal tribe and soon only Shelia and Mark are left as their other guide makes a meal for the cannibals. The get to the cult and find out that Jonas not only brainwashes his ...