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Eaten Alive!

post #1 of 5
10/24/02 at 10:55am
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Alrighty folks, here it is, a look inside Italian Cannibal and Zombie Movies.

Eaten Alive! Tells the story of the graphically gory movies created from the late 1970s through the early 1990s by Italian exploitation moviemakers. Jay Slater explains how the myth of the Haitian walking dead (zombies) merged with legends of third-world cannibalism to create such gruesome zombie cult films as Cannibal Holocaust, an acknowledged influence on The Blair Witch Project.

This book is packed with pictures, interviews, and reviews of almost all of the Italian cannibal and zombie films made in Italy. I ordered this through Borders before it was released, they never sent the order through, and so I had to order it from Amazon last night. From what I heard this book is extremely well, when I get my copy I'll send you an in depth review, unless of course if someone already beats me to it. If you haven't gotten this book yet, you really should, 256 pages packed for only 13.97, check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">www.amazon.com</a> and look up Eaten Alive!: Italian Cannibal and Zombie Movies.
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post #2 of 5
10/24/02 at 11:06am
Damn, that sounds really cool. Please do send a review through when you finish it.

Make sure you support the Corner and get the book through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0859653145/evilshopnet" target="_blank">EVILSHOP</a>, please.
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post #3 of 5
10/24/02 at 11:41am
The book has its intriguing aspects. Jay Slater's a bit of a tool though.

I'm sure he's a nice character but anyone who's suffered through his obsequious and slightly skin crawling commentary on VIPCO's City Of The Living Dead that appears to be recorded just at the spot where Jay Slater positioned himself inside Catriona MacColl's ass, knows that knowledgeable he may be, he slavishly rides the coat tails of many a superior UK horror journalist before him (John Martin (a reeeeaaal close friend of his!), Nigel Burrell, Harvey Fenton, Xavier Mendik, Marc Morris, Adrian Luther-Smith, Alan Jones, Alan Bryce to name but a few) which dampens his otherwise sterling efforts for the UK genre community.

He's a regular contributor to MHVF, so I know at least a couple of creatures here that'll be familiar with his slightly tiresome "look at me" antics that promise to inform us of filmic developments when God, it sounds like, deigns to unfurl the pertinent facts through his head.

Having said that though, if it lives up to the fabulously high bar set by FAB Press and their heavenly tomes on Bava, Fulci and Argento then at the very least Eaten Alive will look good.

You might want to wait for Xavier Mendik's Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress coming later this year for a (sorry about this) meaty (no, truly I apologise) dissection of the 70's gore pics.

My nickel and change for what it's worth.

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post #4 of 5
10/24/02 at 12:05pm
Pardon my ignorance, but what's MHVF?

When I first read this, I was really hoping it was a FAB Press book, those guys know what the hell they're doing. Strax is right, if this one can live up to the images of FAB, it'll at least be worth a look.
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post #5 of 5
10/24/02 at 12:20pm
Mobius Home Video Forum -- mhvf.net (and not mhvf.com as he Creech so endearingly gave us the address for a while back, which while now defunct -- apparently, I haven't looked *ahem* -- used to be a porn site for some chick's webcams. Not uninteresting, but very likely unable to dissect the saliant points of Bava whilst showing you the view down some girl who purports to be 18's pants)

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