Eaten alive is a process by which an aggressive organism, usually an animal, but sometimes a plant, consumes another organism while it is still alive. Clearly it takes some measure of intestinal fortitude to accomplish such a feat, as well as a rather apathetic regard for other living creatures or people. Naturally, being eaten alive almost always results in the death of the one being eaten, but some lucky few have managed to escape from the slavering jaws of their hungry predators and lived to tell the tale.
A classic film example of people being eaten alive is the 1958 b-movie The Blob. In the film, a gelatinous space spore terrorizes the suburban community of Anytown, Pennsylvania, consuming numerous victims that get pulled into it's mass and liquified.
Any film with predatory animals will invariably show some slow-moving shmuck getting gobbled up by some critter or another. A favorite crowd pleaser is in the 1993 dinosaur movie Jurassic Park when scumbag lawyer Donald Gennaro gets bitten in half by a T-Rex. Other walking Happy Meals seen in the film include Robert Muldoon and Ray Arnold, who are both eaten by velociraptors as well as scheming turncoat Dennis Nedry, who is killed by a Dilophosaurus.
In the 1980 horror movie Alligator, a mutated sewer gator surfaces and eats a reporter named Thomas Kemp, who manages to unwillingly photograph his own death when his camera begins snapping away - just as the alligator began snapping away. Later, the sewer gator crashes a wedding and avails himself of the hors d'oeuvres - mainly, a chamber maid.
In the 2002 "creature feature" Eight Legged Freaks, a horde of giant mutant spiders raid the town of Prosperity, Arizona, consuming many townspeople as well as a cat, a dog, a parrot and several ostriches.
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