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List Price: $19.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : May, 1977 DVD Release : 18 November, 2003 |
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Eaten Alive description A wild mix of surreal fantasy and grindhouse splatterfest, Tobe (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Hooper's 1976 sophomore feature pits an all-star cast against the homicidal owner of a backwoods hotel and his pet crocodile, with expectedly bloody results. Veteran character actor Neville Brand gives a memorably eccentric performance as the deranged h ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The good news, it's a Tobe Hooper film... the bad news, it's a Tobe Hooper film |
| Tobe Hooper has had his moments. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a masterpiece, the sequel is a pretty good time, Poltergeist is a really solid ghost picture... but on the flip side of things you also get the complete mess known as Lifeforce, the disastrous Spontaneous Combustion, and certainly last but not least, 2000's Crocodile (which made Lake Placid seem really good in comparison). Eaten Alive is the first film he made after TCM and while it's not on that level, it is an entertaining and enjoyable watch (even if it's just once). The movie chronicles the exploits of Judd (played completely over the top by Neville Brand) as he runs a dilapidated hotel out the the middle of Louisianna swampland (or is it Texas?). From there on we watch a bizarre and eclectic group of people (including horror vet Robert Englund as white trash Buck "who likes to fu..." and the lovely Marilyn Burns as a wig sporting wife) to check in so that Judd has something to feed his "pet" crocodile. Completely all over the place while still being slow paced and amusingly overacted, Eaten Alive's best asset is it's setting and atmosphere. Just like how Tobe turned a desolate farm house into a living nightmare in TCM, here he is able to do nearly the same with the grimey hotel where everything takes place. The movie is able to provide some good tension at times also, most notably the scene involving a young girl hiding from Judd underneath the hotel while simutaneously being hunted by his pet croc. While far from a "long lost classic", Eaten Alive should provide enough to keep most horror fans happy (or mildly entertained) and wondering... what happened to Tobe Hooper?! This special edition by Dark Sky (so nice it almost feels wasted on this film but...) is the one to get if you do plan on buying the DVD as it has a plethora of interesting extras including "The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball" which details the true story on which this movie was based. | |
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