Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan Rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972. Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Danilo Mattei, Zora Kerova. Alive. Spoilers for #Alive ahead. Special features for Eaten Alive! The group had With Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay. The Andes plane went down in the early 1970s. Votes: 9,109 Cannibalism There are so many, many bad things in the world, but for some weird visceral reason, cannibalism is considered just about the worst. After numerous days spent searching for … WARNING! In the movie . Novelist Piers Paul Read wrote a book about the experience, which was optioned for the movies, but then a 1976 Mexican quickie named "Survive!" Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe. "Alive" is a movie that has taken a long time to come to the screen. I know Roger Ebert doesn't think that this movie really shows, what it would be like to be stranded there for 70+ days, but I don't think any movie truly could. It really is a great story and is uplifting. #Alive is the first Korean movie to achieve such a feat on one of the world's largest websites for both television and movie … A woman named Sheila is searching for her sister, who has disappeared in the southeastern jungles of Asia (India). Within the greater culture this would be considered taboo however, in their specific group these actions were accepted as necessary to their survival. Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash. the group members resort to . Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in sub-zero temperatures. was dubbed into English and upstaged a more elaborate production. After watching this movie the whole cannibalism thing sticks in your head, but you really should look at the whole movie. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION 3 cannibalism for survival. Meet the Man Who Survived a Plane Crash by Eating Human Flesh to Stay Alive When Pedro Algorta's plane crashed in the Andes in 1972, he had to … On September 8, 2020, Netflix released Cho Il-hyung's zombie horror movie, #Alive—two days later, according to The Himalayan Times, it reached the number one position for the streaming service worldwide. Filmed shortly before his passing in late 2017, Welcome to the Jungle finds the Italian exploitation movie guru recollecting about his time spent on this and other cannibal/horror movies. begin with some final words from Signori Umberto Lenzi himself. Directed by Frank Marshall.