Sep 19 2008
EAT YOUR HEART OUT AKA SKINNED ALIVE
A hooker with a taste for human flesh…
THE PLOT
The movie opens with an unnamed guy in New York City about to get lucky. Apparently he hired a pro for the night because he explains that his fiancé is fat and ugly, but since they’re getting married soon he wants to have one last night of fun. The camera’s careful not to reveal the girl as she works her way up and down his body. Then she systematically rips his lips right off his body and proceeds to eat parts of his skin while he’s still alive. Then the movie introduces us to Jeffery who just happens to have a penchant for prostitutes. Naturally he meets our killer hooker Pandora, but he falls head over heels in love with her. She reveals that dark side of her personality to him and he still decides to marry her. She’s being tracked through her agency by the lover of one of her victims and Jeffery’s sister tries to convince the audience that Pandora doesn’t exist.
TRIVIA
Also known in some markets as Skinned Alive.
THOUGHTS/OPINIONS
This is one of those movies that someone recommended, but I can’t for the life of me remember who…probably the same person that recommended Scrapbook. Turned out that this wasn’t the movie they actually recommended, but by then I had already sat though it. Eat Your Heart Out has a very bland feel to it, as if there should be more to the movie, but there isn’t for some reason. The acting is exactly what you’d expect from a movie like this, not that great but not too terrible.
The one thing Skinned Alive has going for it is some fairly gory scenes. Though I must say taking a hacksaw to someone’s neck should probably produce more blood. Another woman gets slowly sliced into pieces and of course our favorite hooker still likes to eat her clients alive. Things get a little confusing because they never actually take the time to explain what she is. She gets shot in the dead and doesn’t die, which just makes Jeffery thinks he’s invented her since apparently he did have imaginary friends in the past.
Eat Your Heart Out was an okay movie. The fact that I can’t find a single picture of the poster or DVD box to post on here should tell you something about it though.
