Netflix viewers urged to watch older film about same harrowing story from Society of the Snow

If you've watched the highly praised Society of the Snow movie on Netflix, then you might be interested in another film about the real life disaster.

Having gained plenty of critical praise while it also finds plenty of viewers on Netflix, Society of the Snow does a very good job portraying the horrific situation 45 people were thrust into when their plane crashed in the Andes mountains.

The real story of the 1972 disaster is even more harrowing than any film could portray, but Society of the Snow does a very good job at putting it up there on the screen.

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However, with the film releasing more than 50 years on from the tragedy where only 16 of the 45 people on board the plane made it back alive, it wasn't going to be the only movie to portray those events.

The survivors of the plane crash were honest about their ordeal and what they did to survive, explaining that the plane crash survivors ate the flesh of the dead when the food supplies aboard the plane ran out.

While they had initially said they ate cheese and other items of food on board the plane, as well as vegetation on the mountain once that ran out, that was because the survivors wanted to discuss the details with the families of the dead first.

When rumours claimed that some of the plane crash survivors had killed each other for food they held a press conference where they explained that they made a pact with each other.

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The first film made about the plane crash was the 1976 movie Survive!, which was panned by critics but would not be the final attempt.

21 years after the plane crash, the movie Alive released in cinemas, with one of the survivors of the disaster working as a technical advisor on the film.

Starring Ethan Hawke, the film was far better received than Survive! and with several survivors from the actual plane crash visiting the set, it was a more faithful telling of the story.

At the same time as the film was releasing, a documentary titled Alive: 20 Years Later released as the companion piece to the film, containing interviews with the survivors and real life footage of their rescue.

If you thought Society of the Snow was excellent and wanted to see another take on the same true story from another film then Alive is the way to go.

Topics: TV and Film, World News

Joe Harker

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