I saw a movie in a drive in as a kid, and I remember someone falling through a snowhill. Was just standing there, and then fell through. A man and woman were yelling and crying upset. And they skinned the faces so that they didnt have to see their friends.
I was only 5 or so. Could this be the movie? Did they remove faces so that they didnt have to see that they were eating their friends? Does the man through the snowhill ring a bell?
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Wrong movie. This was a real story about a plane crash in the Andes in 1972
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As a kid, I saw this movie on late-70s television, and yes, I distinctly remember the scene where the man falls through the snowhill. It gave me nightmares for a week!
shareFunny but this scene is also firmly embedded in my memory.
I think it was one of the survivors that fell out of the plane on it's slide down (at least as shown in the movie, not sure if it was true), so they started walking towards the plane's final resting spot but they never made it.
OMG I saw this one at the drive-in too. I was 6 and was traumatized by this movie. There were just too many things in this movie that a kid that age shouldn't be seeing. What stuck with me for the longest time was the part with the guy whos intestine was sticking out and someone sees this and tries to put it back in.
shareI read the book and that really did happen:
One of the survivors was out of the plane and was spotted by 2(i think it was 2) others. They waved at him and he tried to walk towards them from the other hill/mountain/slope/whatever and as he walked in just plunked right down into the snow - obviously dying of suffocation. It was a really tough to read part of the book and that's really saying something.
It's funny that this powerful event is not in the 93 version of ALIVE. I think it would have been unforgettable.
i rememeber this movie from so long ago too...don't know where I saw it but quite possibly the drive in too ( I mean I saw another movie at the drive-in that I was way too young to see known as the he original Texas Chainsaw Massacre so why not?)
A only image I think sticks out to me was when they sliced the backs of their friends wo were halfway immersed in the snow to get food......been such along time ago but when Alive came out I thought of that moment
It was actually a female who was sucked into the snow void. That scene disturbed me too. The rest was not gorey or ghoulish at all. Of course, it was on TV and could've been edited.
shareReading these posts, brings back memories, I now remember seeing this at the drive-in with my parents as a kid. And someone mentions that part when they start cutting the skin off their dead friends backs to eat from. It now jogs my memory, I saw ALIVE, but I wouldn't mind seeing this version again.
shareThere are some things they WANT to be forgettable. No, it has nothing to do with the fiction of skinning faces.
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