THE EMERALD JUNGLE Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

EMERALD JUNGLE, THE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Eaten Alive By Cannibals, Eaten Alive.

(1980, Italy)

DIRECTED BY: Umberto Lenzi.

Before Lenzi made his well known Cannibal film Make Them Die Slowly he released this as a predecessor (he even used the same letter format for the credits and the same music) much like Ruggero Deodato did with Cannibal and Cannibal Holocaust. Lenzi also has another one of these under his belt titled The Man From Deep River which came before this. Is the word repeat in the mans vocabulary?

This is much more boring than Make Them Die Slowly which was not all that entertaining either to think of it. There is nearly not as much gore and the film is not as downbeat. It also literally steals scenes from other cannibal films. One especially noticeable scene is from Deodato's Cannibal.

The name The Emerald Jungle was used to try and gain some success from John Boorman's The Emerald Forest for some stupid reason as if it would actually work. The film also tries to tell the account of the Reverend Jim Jones mass suicide ritual. As for gore there's a castration and a woman gets one of her breasts cut off and eaten by a cannibal, pretty fake looking stuff if you ask me. Lenzi seems more obsessed with showing footage of animals being killed than anything. Film is a bore and I'm getting really sick and tired of these badly done Italian cannibal films.

Rating: 1 Skull

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

EMERALD JUNGLE, THE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Eaten Alive By Cannibals, Eaten Alive.

(1980, Italy)

DIRECTED BY: Umberto Lenzi.

I'll make this brief....

Typical Lenzi film that spend 's about a minute in Canada, than shoot over to New York. Some wack job is walking around NYC blowing arrows with poisonious venim into people...

Shoot over to the police precint with the words greatest line ever written for a Caninbal Movie "This is odd....very....odd"

Nice looking blonde woman searches to find her sister who is entranced by a religious fantatic in an Island surrounded by cannibals.

The soundtrack is terriably familuar as well as some aerial shots...IS THERE ANY CANIBAL FILM THAT DOESNT FORCE IT'S AUDIENCE WITH RELENTLESS SCENES OF ANIMALS BEING EATEN, BRUTALIZED AND TORTURED?

Overall Rating: *

Puke Meter: **

Shock Value: * (it's just getting to dam relentless, though there is an interesting "phallic" thing going on)

Gore Meter: **

Review by: John P. is your friend

Email: stypee@webtv.net

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