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Eaten Alive
2 DVDS/APPROX. 91 MINS/1977/USA R18+
2 DVDS/APPROX. 91 MINS/1977/USA R18+
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Director Tobe Hooper who first bought us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tries to bring us another terrifying film called Eaten Alive, which is
basically about a manager named Judd (Neville Brand) who runs the Starlight Hotel which is on the swamps of Louisiana, being a swamp its
infested with alligators but Judd has his very own pet alligator, any guests, hookers and town drunks that stay at the hotel he ends up slicing and
dicing with his scythe "What the Grim Reaper uses" and then feeds there limbs to the hungry alligator. That's basically what the film is all about.
Eaten Alive is nothing as shocking or brutal as the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it does come off pretty lame. I personally didn't really dig
this film, it kinda reminded me a lot of Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho (1960) meets Lewis Teague's Alligator (1980). Hooper tries to deliver maximum
suspense to this film but just doesn't really pay off, the alligator scenes look pretty weak and not even real. Neville Brand played a remarkably
well role as the villain in this movie, with scenes of him talking to himself like a mumbling psychotic madman. Not to mention horror legend Robert
Englund before known as Freddy Kruger in the A Nightmare On Elm Street movies, and the beautiful Carolyn Jones who played as Morticia
Addams in the USA TV hit The Adams Family, Marilyn Burns (Sally, the survivor from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) all have cameo's in this film.
The only thing going for this movie is probably the atmosphere of the muddy, windy foggy swamp, also Eaten Alive is fill with top notch nudity so
you can't go wrong with that, other than that its fairly dull.
Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive is one of those film's that some horror fans are going to either love and hate, if you are a fan of Tobe Hooper's work
after well you might end up loving this film. But personally i didn't find anything interesting about this film, and i guess i suspected more out of the
director, and Eaten Alive just feel a little short.
So just rent this film before you buy it on DVD, there is plenty other horror films out there that's worth buying more than this film.
basically about a manager named Judd (Neville Brand) who runs the Starlight Hotel which is on the swamps of Louisiana, being a swamp its
infested with alligators but Judd has his very own pet alligator, any guests, hookers and town drunks that stay at the hotel he ends up slicing and
dicing with his scythe "What the Grim Reaper uses" and then feeds there limbs to the hungry alligator. That's basically what the film is all about.
Eaten Alive is nothing as shocking or brutal as the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it does come off pretty lame. I personally didn't really dig
this film, it kinda reminded me a lot of Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho (1960) meets Lewis Teague's Alligator (1980). Hooper tries to deliver maximum
suspense to this film but just doesn't really pay off, the alligator scenes look pretty weak and not even real. Neville Brand played a remarkably
well role as the villain in this movie, with scenes of him talking to himself like a mumbling psychotic madman. Not to mention horror legend Robert
Englund before known as Freddy Kruger in the A Nightmare On Elm Street movies, and the beautiful Carolyn Jones who played as Morticia
Addams in the USA TV hit The Adams Family, Marilyn Burns (Sally, the survivor from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) all have cameo's in this film.
The only thing going for this movie is probably the atmosphere of the muddy, windy foggy swamp, also Eaten Alive is fill with top notch nudity so
you can't go wrong with that, other than that its fairly dull.
Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive is one of those film's that some horror fans are going to either love and hate, if you are a fan of Tobe Hooper's work
after well you might end up loving this film. But personally i didn't find anything interesting about this film, and i guess i suspected more out of the
director, and Eaten Alive just feel a little short.
So just rent this film before you buy it on DVD, there is plenty other horror films out there that's worth buying more than this film.
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