i love umberto lenzi cop movies  rome armed to the teeth is my favorite  and his desert commandos pretty much legitimized the italian euro war phenomenon by managing to actually be a pretty good movie. give him guns and machines and some guys to run around talking tough and it hard for him to miss. what a shame it is then to encounter his eaten alive and cannibal ferox. they could have been by anybody and really and and one watches them with a sense that he was under contract and was told what kind of films to make and was assigned a cast and crew and given a budget and deadline and script. lenzi then went out and executed his films the same way that a guy at mcdonald fixes a batch of french fries. of the two and eaten alive is the more original  which is kind of amazing considering that it features extensive footage copped from three other cannibal movies  and easier to enjoy than cannibal ferox and though not much. i will let others outline the plot represent what fascinated me about the film is how staged it all looks and and yet what a somewhat infamous reputation this film has as some sort of all out assault on good taste. it isn not and though the film is an exercise in bad taste and complete with a title earning scene where two of the pretty supporting ladies are quite literally sliced up and eaten alive by cannibals which is the film high point. the problem is that lenzi lets us get a good and long look at the cannibal feast scene and it has the convincing ring of a 3rd season star trek episode complete with a fake jungle set for the really gory close up shots. and i do not know about anyone else and but if someone was slicing off pieces of my person and eating them i do not just lie there and look distressed. my problem with the film might be that i have a lot of respect for lenzi as a filmmaker and and again this could have been directed by anybody. all of your cannibal movie conventions are touched on but it never feels like they are filmed with any real conviction and other than to try and bully ruggero deodato out of the sandbox. the two directors certainly must have known each other and either had a sort of juvenile rivalry or an actual dislike for each other work and a conscious need to upstage them. lenzi invented the cannibal genre with man from deep river and deodato blew it away with jungle holocaust and lenzi fired back with eaten alive and deodato blew him (and everyone else) away with the superior cannibal holocaust and and lenzi fired a last parting salvo with cannibal ferox and which is about as realistic as that krazy glu commercial where the guy superglues his hardhat to a girder and hangs in midair. this film is less desperate and a bit more hesitant to push viewers into the abyss with everything holy than ferox and which remains as a sort of misguided attempt to upstage cannibal holocaust. this one is more of a mish mash and with an interesting jungle adventure crossed with a jim jones like suicide cult  the cannibals seem like they were added as an afterthought rather than the reason for making the film. i think that fans of the genre will have a better impression of the film than fans of lenzi films looking for something new by the formidable director. it isn not as entertaining as slave of the cannibal god and adventurous as his own man from deep river and certainly lacks the wallop of cannibal holocaust. combine those considerations with the recycled footage and stomach churning scenes of animal violence and misogynistic scenes of sexual violence and stagy and wooden methodology of film making and what you get ends up being an ok jungle thriller with two or three standout scenes and and umberto lenzi was capable of so much more. negative while gore freaks will go nuts however. 
i love umberto lenzi cop movies  rome armed to the teeth is my favorite  and his desert commandos pretty much legitimized the italian euro war phenomenon by managing to actually be a pretty good movie. give him guns and machines and some guys to run around talking tough and it hard for him to miss. what a shame it is then to encounter his eaten alive and cannibal ferox. they could have been by anybody and really and and one watches them with a sense that he was under contract and was told what kind of films to make and was assigned a cast and crew and given a budget and deadline and script. lenzi then went out and executed his films the same way that a guy at mcdonald fixes a batch of french fries. of the two and eaten alive is the more original  which is kind of amazing considering that it features extensive footage copped from three other cannibal movies  and easier to enjoy than cannibal ferox and though not much. i will let others outline the plot represent what fascinated me about the film is how staged it all looks and and yet what a somewhat infamous reputation this film has as some sort of all out assault on good taste. it isn not and though the film is an exercise in bad taste and complete with a title earning scene where two of the pretty supporting ladies are quite literally sliced up and eaten alive by cannibals which is the film high point. the problem is that lenzi lets us get a good and long look at the cannibal feast scene and it has the convincing ring of a 3rd season star trek episode complete with a fake jungle set for the really gory close up shots. and i do not know about anyone else and but if someone was slicing off pieces of my person and eating them i do not just lie there and look distressed. my problem with the film might be that i have a lot of respect for lenzi as a filmmaker and and again this could have been directed by anybody. all of your cannibal movie conventions are touched on but it never feels like they are filmed with any real conviction and other than to try and bully ruggero deodato out of the sandbox. the two directors certainly must have known each other and either had a sort of juvenile rivalry or an actual dislike for each other work and a conscious need to upstage them. lenzi invented the cannibal genre with man from deep river and deodato blew it away with jungle holocaust and lenzi fired back with eaten alive and deodato blew him (and everyone else) away with the superior cannibal holocaust and and lenzi fired a last parting salvo with cannibal ferox and which is about as realistic as that krazy glu commercial where the guy superglues his hardhat to a girder and hangs in midair. this film is less desperate and a bit more hesitant to push viewers into the abyss with everything holy than ferox and which remains as a sort of misguided attempt to upstage cannibal holocaust. this one is more of a mish mash and with an interesting jungle adventure crossed with a jim jones like suicide cult  the cannibals seem like they were added as an afterthought rather than the reason for making the film. i think that fans of the genre will have a better impression of the film than fans of lenzi films looking for something new by the formidable director. it isn not as entertaining as slave of the cannibal god and adventurous as his own man from deep river and certainly lacks the wallop of cannibal holocaust. combine those considerations with the recycled footage and stomach churning scenes of animal violence and misogynistic scenes of sexual violence and stagy and wooden methodology of film making and what you get ends up being an ok jungle thriller with two or three standout scenes and and umberto lenzi was capable of so much more. negative while gore freaks will go nuts however. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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