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Eaten Alive (also known as Doomed to Die and The Emerald Jungle) will satisfy your hunger for human flesh on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 24 via Severin Films.

Not to be confused with Tobe Hooper’s 1976 horror film of the same name, this is the 1980 Italian cannibal gorefest from writer-director Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox).

It has been newly scanned in 4K from the color reversal intermediate. It’s presented in Hdr with English and Italian mono audio options.

Over four hours of special features are included:

Audio Commentary With Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi Deodato Meats Lenzi – Ruggero Deodato and Lenzi Discuss Their Cannibal Films Me Me Lai Bites Back – Feature Documentary On The Queen Of Cannibal Movies Interview With Production Designer Antonello Geleng Interviews With Actors Ivan Rassimov And Robert Kerman 2013 Q&a With Umberto Lenzi From The Festival Of Fantastic...

The Cannibal sub-genre usually divides the viewer in to one of two camps: horror fans who deem it “necessary” as part of their schooling to watch the gut munchers of the decade from the early ‘70s to early ‘80s, and those who completely stay clear after hearing stories of real life animal mutilation and on screen rape, not to mention an anatomical eye for grisly (and gristly) detail in that uniquely unsubtle, very Italian way. If you choose to wade through the jungle, there are simply no better guides than the denizens at Severin Films, who offer up a superb new disc of Umberto Lenzi’s Eaten Alive! (1980). If you’re new to this fascinating facet of horror, you might as well jump in here – there is no shallow end.

Lenzi kick started the craze with 1972’s Man from Deep River, an unabashed “homage” to A Man Called Horse (1970), the...