Hungry For Flesh? Top 10 Third World Cannibal Films!
Steve Barton
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EATEN ALIVE! (aka MANGIATI VIVI aka THE EMERALD JUNGLE aka DOOMED TO DIE) (1980)
Umberto Lenzi again… A blow-dart wielding assassin is killed on the streets of New York after murdering a man on the street and an intrepid female reporter is off n an investigation to find her missing sister. Soon, she ends up in – where else? – the jungle and the fun begins. This gut-muncher is a brutal parade of murder, torture, cannibalism, and… you guessed it… animal mutilation. Look for legendary actor Mel Ferrer in a small role as well. Oh, and of course… Me Me Lai who, from the look of her filmography, should’ve fired her agent and fed HIM to the cannibals.
Antonio Margheriti (SEVEN DEAD IN A CAT’S EYE) takes John Saxon and John Morghen (aka Giovanni Lombardo Radice CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) into the literal heart of darkness by way of a POW camp where they are forced to eat human flesh. A short time later, the men – now returned to regular life – find their newfound culinary habits hard to break. Soon, they are chewing their way through the Big City and causing others to do the same. Fun stuff and one of Radice’s better roles. Saxon on the other hand …
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