Eaten Alive!
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Mangiati vivi!, also known by its English title Eaten Alive!, is an Italian cannibal film directed by Umberto Lenzi, released in 1980. It stars Robert Kerman, Janet Agren and Me Me Lai. Also in secondary roles it stars Franco Fantasia, Mel Ferrer and Ivan Rassimov. It is the most notorious Cannibal film, after Cannibal Ferox and Cannibal Holocaust, the film features scenes of castration, rape, beheading and impalement. Most of the violent scenes from the film, have been lifted from other movies in the genre, most notably Last Cannibal World It is now on DVD. Alternative titles for the movie, include "The Emerald jungle" and "Eaten Alive by Cannibals". It is regarded as equal to Cannibal Ferox by the director, who says Cannibal Ferox did well at the box office.
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The film begins with a woman called Sheila who is searching for her sister, who has disappeared in the south eastern jungles of Asia. Sheila is played by Janet Agren and she joins up with Robert Kerman who plays a man called Mark, they both encounter many perils while searching for the sister of Shelia who ha joined a cult run by a man called Jonas, played by Ivan Rassimov. Ivan Rassimov rapes and abuses his followers and local natives in one graphic scene he rapes Sheila with a dildo covered in snake blood and he chops the head of a local savage. Also he sexually abuses the sister of Sheila, as well. A group, consisting of Me Me Lai, Mark, Sheila and Sheila’s sister Dianna escape into the jungle, where the girls, are raped and hacked to death. Mark and Shelia quickly escape back to New York.
