Eat ‘Em Alive is an exploitational “outdoor” film about natural predators and their helpless prey. The audience is almost immediately regaled by a lengthy scene in which one rattlesnake swallows another. Soon thereafter, a centipede makes a meal of a spider then enjoys the arachnid’s entrails as an after-dinner snack. As a topper, a gila monster and a snake duke it out, with the victor devouring the vanquished. The narrator points out all the salient points of this “survival of the fittest” battle in gleefully gory detail. Eat ‘Em Alive merely proves that documentary films like Faces of Death and TV shows like When Animals Attack were not merely aberrations of the 1980s and 1990s