Eaten Alive (Mangiati Vivi)

(Umberto Lenzi; 1980)

(Shriek Show)

 

-Overview-

A girl risks life and limb on a quest to find her sister in a deadly jungle. Once there she encounters a tribe of cannibals as well as a suicide cult.

This is Lenzi’s second cannibal film (the first being Cannibal Ferox aka Make Them Die Slowly) and it does rather pale in comparison. It’s violent, exploitative, and gory, as one should expect from this genre, but unfortunately, Lenzi went the Cannibal Holocaust route of cheapening the film with needless real animal deaths (much of said footage was borrowed from other cannibal films). That being said, it’s still a decent outing and worth including in any horror fan’s collection.

-Sound-

Presented in stereo.

-Picture-

The print is fine, with a small amount of graininess. Presented in widescreen.

-Special Features-

-         Trailers

-         Interviews

-Packaging-

Decent packaging. Standard Media Blasters stuff. 

 

Sound: 4

Picture: 5

Special Features: 4

Packaging: 5

Film: 6

 

Overall Rating: 6.5

 

(Rating scale is out of 10, with 1 being the worst and 10 the best)