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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Color • Special Edition • NTSC In Theaters : May, 1977 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Boring and Stupid |
| OK. This is the Tobe Hooper movie following "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The script was co-written by TCM writer Kim Henkel. The movie features a good cover and a good synopsis on the back. So, where does this film go wrong? Where doesn't it? I want to start off that it's obvious that Quentin Tarantino has seen this movie because the opening scene's dialouge was used in "Kill Bill Vo.1". My name is Buck and I'm here to f**k. In the beginning we're introduced to a hooker who refuses to have sex with Buck (a very young pre-Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund) and is kicked out of the whorehouse in which she resides. She ends up at the Starlight Motel, a dark motel hidden in the depths of the Bayou. In a horror movie made in today's times, this would be the part where you would turn the film off. Anyone who has seen a horror mvoie should know that this is not the kind of motel you walk into. The Starlight is kept by Judd (a very creepy Neville Brand) who acts sane and then suddenly the exact opposite and ends up killing the hooker. Oddly enough, living right next to the motel is Judd's alligator, hence the title "Eaten Alive". The movie continues with a few other people who pass through, including a family of 3. The father is killed, the mother is tied to the bed, and the young daughter hides from Judd beneath the house. Then the family of the hooker show. Oh and Buck shows up and Judd shows an odd distaste in him immediately. This movie should've been good and it definitley had the makings for a good horror movies. The 70's was arguably the decade for horror films. Looking at horror movies nowadays there is clear inspiration from 70's horror movies. This movie has a grainy look to it, there's blood galore, and it's pretty disturbing. Brand is one of the best horror film heavies ever, but he's not anywhere near as creepy as the infamous Leatherface. "Eaten Alive" was inspired and a lot of hardcore horror fans will enjoy it. I love horror films and the more graphic they are, the better. This movie just lagged though. In between the scenes when Judd was killing people, it was just really boring. It was cool seeing Robert Englund, who as a kid looked nothing like Freddy Krueger. And the film also stars Marilyn Burns, the actress who escaped in TCM and made a cameo appearance as the Anonymous Woman at the end of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation". I'd recommend another horror film, but if it sounds good to you. Go for it.
GRADE: D |
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