Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- Pareidolia 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Mangiati Vivi

Eaten Alive
Doomed to Die / Eaten Alive by the Cannibals / Eaten Alive from the Cannibals / Lebendig Gefressen / Emerald Jungle

Italy 1980
produced by
Luciano Martino, Mino Loy for Dania Film, National Cinematografica, Medusa Produzione
directed by Umberto Lenzi
starring Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Paola Senatore, Me Me Lai, Mel Ferrer, Franco Coduti, Fiamma Maglione (as Mag Fleming), Franco Fantasia, Alfred Joseph Berry, Michele Schmiegelia
written by Umberto Lenzi, music by Robreto Donati, Fiamma Maglione

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!


Flix.com

Several murders happen in Manhattan and at the Niagara Falls that have one thing in common: they are all done by some Asian usinga blowpipe and poisoned darts - but unfortunately before this native can be captured and questioned, he is run over by a car.

Now there is only one clue for the police to go on, Sheila's (Janet Agren) sister Diane (Paola Senatore) ... thing is nobody knows where Diane really is. With the help of professor Carter (Mel Ferrer), Sheila does a bit of research though and finds out her sister is in New Guinea, with a sect, Brother Jonas' (Ivan Rassimov) Purification Sect.

That means of course Sheila has to go to New Guinea, and set out into the jungle to find the sect, accompanied by rough-edged and cynical but kind hearted jungle guide Mark (Robert Kerman) ... and even on the way to the sect's jungle hide-out, Mark and Sheila encounter cannibals. Somehow though they make it to Brother Jonas' jungle paradise, and they find Diane alive and well, but they also find out how highly perverted Jonas'  version of the paradise is: He keeps his followers in line by handing them drugs, keeps them from running away by having the camp situated in cannibal country, his guards, led by sadistic Karan (Franco Coduti), keep a close watch over his followers, and women he regards as his personal prey to be shagged at will.

Sheila is soon drugged into submission, but Mark makes an unsuccessful attempt to get away. Upon returning, he pledges allegiance to Jonas, but secretly he plots a getaway with Sheila, Diane and native girl Mowara (Me Me Lai, the pin-up girl of the cannibal genre, if there ever was one).

Finally, the moment of their escape has come, but Sheila has been highly drugged and constantly tries to escape the others and return to Jonas - and that with Jonas' guards behind them and the cannibals in front of them.

The unavoidable happens of course, Sheila breaks loose from the others and runs off, Mark after her, and the other two girls are captured by Karan and his men. But Karan has the bad idea to rape the two women right there on the spot instead of getting them out of cannibal country, and in the end the girls as well as Karan and his guards fall prey to the cannibals.

The effects of the drugs meanwhile wear off on Sheila, and she and Mark seem to make good their escape ... until they seem to be overrun by cannibals. It isn't until the last minute that some helicopters - somehow alarmed by professor Carter - show up and save them.

Jonas, hearing the helicopters approaching, hands out poison to his followers and has those killed who refuse to drink it, as he rather dies than goes to prison - but somehow, it seems that wiley devil manages to escape ...

Back in New York, Sheila has to admit she failed in her mission to save her sister, her tale about the cannibals is to be hushed up by the authorities, and she finds out she's penniless because her sister has given all their inheritance - quite a sum - to Jonas ... but at least she now has Mark on her side.

 


Flix.com

Occasionally, Mangiati Vivi is called a classic of the cannibal genre, and for some reason, it is perpetually re-released, which might be more than the film deserves. It's true that Umberto Lenzi started the cannibal genre with his film Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio/Deep River Savages back in 1972, a well-done, violent adventure movie in which the actual cannibals played only second fiddle. By 1980 however, the genre was fully developed, thanks to films like Ultimo Mondo Cannibale/Jungle Holocaust/Last Cannibal World (1977) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980, both by Ruggero Deodato), Emanuelle e gli ultimi Cannibali/Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977, by Joe D'Amato) or La Montagna del Dio Cannibale/The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978, by Sergio Martino).

Actually, the cannibal genre was already past its prime, and one can't help but noticing it with this film (and even more so with Lenzi's cannibal movie from 1981, Cannibal Ferox): The plot is just too darn silly and too clichéd to convince anymore, there are plotholes aplenty, to come up with even more violence some real life animal-killings (either by natives or by other animals) are thrown into the film without any relation to the story, also a hefty portion of sleaze is added, and to top it all of, Lenzi tried to blend the standard cannibal formula with his version of the Jonestown Massacre, then a rather recent news item. Ah, and by the way, quite a few scenes from Deodato's Jungle Holocaust are bluntly re-used here, including Me Me Lai's rather graphic death scene, as well as portions of Lenzi's own Deep River Savages and Martino's The Mountain of the Cannibal God (the castration scene).

The outcome is pretty much as bad as you'd expect, but somehow, you might find the film unintentionally funny - provided you have got a strong stomach and are able to look through the not terribly convincing gore effects -, and you might even find this film enjoyable, if for all the wrong reasons. So maybe I'm wrong, maybe this is a classic of the genre after all ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Eaten Alive
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Eaten Alive here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Eaten Alive at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!