i love umberto lenzi cop movie rome arm to the teeth be my favorite and his desert commando pretty much legitimize the italian euro war phenomenon by manage to actually be a pretty good movie . give him gun and machine and some guy to run around talk tough and it hard for him to miss . what a shame it be then to encounter his eaten alive and cannibal ferox . they could have be by anybody and really and and one watch them with a sense that he be under contract and be tell what kind of film to make and be assign a cast and crew and give a budget and deadline and script . lenzi then go out and execute his film the same way that a guy at mcdonald fix a batch of french fry . of the two and eat alive be the more original which be kind of amaze consider that it feature extensive footage cop from three other cannibal movie and easy to enjoy than cannibal ferox and though not much . i will let others outline the plot represent what fascinate me about the film be how staged it all look and and yet what a somewhat infamous reputation this film have a some sort of all out assault on good taste . it isn not and though the film be an exercise in bad taste and complete with a title earn scene where two of the pretty supporting lady be quite literally slice up and eat alive by cannibal which be the film high point . the problem be that lenzi let u get a good and long look at the cannibal feast scene and it have the convince ring of a 3rd season star trek episode complete with a fake jungle set for the really gory close up shot . and i do not know about anyone else and but if someone be slice off piece of my person and eat them i wouldn not just lie there and look distressed . my problem with the film might be that i have a lot of respect for lenzi a a filmmaker and and again this could have be direct by anybody . all of your cannibal movie convention be touch on but it never feel like they be film with any real conviction and other than to try and bully ruggero deodato out of the sandbox . the two director certainly must have know each other and either have a sort of juvenile rivalry or an actual dislike for each other work and a conscious need to upstage them . lenzi invent the cannibal genre with man from deep river and deodato blow it away with jungle holocaust and lenzi fire back with eaten alive and deodato blow him ( and everyone else ) away with the superior cannibal holocaust and and lenzi fire a last parting salvo with cannibal ferox and which be about as realistic a that krazy glu commercial where the guy superglues his hardhat to a girder and hang in midair . this film be less desperate and a bit more hesitant to push viewer into the abyss with everything holy than ferox and which remain a a sort of misguided attempt to upstage cannibal holocaust . this one be more of a mish mash and with an interesting jungle adventure cross with a jim jones like suicide cult the cannibal seem like they be add a an afterthought rather than the reason for make the film . i think that fan of the genre will have a good impression of the film than fan of lenzi film look for something new by the formidable director . it isn not as entertaining a slave of the cannibal god and adventurous a his own man from deep river and certainly lack the wallop of cannibal holocaust . combine those consideration with the recycled footage and stomach churn scene of animal violence and misogynistic scene of sexual violence and stagy and wooden methodology of film making and what you get end up be an ok jungle thriller with two or three standout scene and and umberto lenzi be capable of so much more . 4/10 while gore freak will go nuts however .