Eaten Alive! - User Reviews

And so it begins....another incredibly awful cheesy, yet wonderfully gruesome, Italian horror movie. You gotta love these bad films...and if you don't love 'em, why in the world would you actually sit through one like this? Awful dialogue, the hyper-melodramatic acting (although I have to admit it isn't as bad as _Cannibal Ferox_ or _Cannibal Holocaust_ by a long shot), the exaggerated gestures and threatenings of brutal violence, the super-intense close-ups of Janet Agren's eyes (she _is_ nice to look at, though...just like she was in _City of the Living Dead_ ), the animal cruelty, disembowlments, the occasional slurping of intestines, and always that weird random _Little House on the Prairie_ sweet, family-friendly music indicating that all is wonderful in the land of cannibals and murderers, yep, it's all here, ladies and germs. Add to that a couple of Italian actresses trying to sound like sweet southern Alabama gals and you have all the ingredients for a truly memorable cheesy, awful Italian horror cannibal flick. Oh, and let us not forget that this "ritualistic" religious cult, hidden deep in the forbidden jungles of New Guinea, denouncing Christianity and all "modern" religions, and professing to purfiy themselves by "becoming one with Nature"....they choose to sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as their anthem when someone wants to join their cult and purify himself. Yes, friends and neighbors, it really is that bad... The "cannibalism" was hyped to the extreme here, unlike the aforementioned _Cannibal Ferox_ and _Cannibal Holocaust_ (where it was more implied than explicit). Here, the "cannibals" are actually seen dismembering bodies (usually still alive and screaming, of course) and feasting on those body parts while we get to watch. So so soooooo incredibly bad, this whole movie, and that ending.... Wow, that was just.... Talk about leaving you with a blank stare thinking _"What in the cathair did I just sit through?"_ This was the epitome of _"So bad, it's good"_ but you have to have some kind of a sick, demented desire to watch this kind of slop (like I do) or you'll be left wondering _"Why did I just waste an hour and a half of my life on this tripe?"_ This one is not for the faint of heart but mainly because it's just so utterly bad. I absolutely loved it!