Alive

Alive

A life worse than death.

2003119 min5.8 / 10

A dark, visceral sci-fi horror about a death-row inmate forced into nightmarish experiments, exploring survival, bodily autonomy, and the ethics of human experimentation.

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.

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