Eaten Alive
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In Theaters : 01 May, 1977
DVD Release : 18 November, 2003 |
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Initially the movie seemed to have some of Chainsaw Massacre's nonlinear slant and manic energy, but the lack of focus ultimately destroyed everything. The movie's random maniacal edge seemed overly contrived---perpetrated in the absence of any recognizable storyline. And hell, the crocodile just didn't get enough screen-time. Let's face it. The best actor in the entire movie was reprehensibly underplayed.
This whole swamp-laden mess roughly revolves around the picturesque Starlight Hotel, conspicuously built to overlook a croc-supporting deluge. At one point, an estranged family shows up and pays for a room. What follows next is a pointless psychotic diatribe between husband and wife. The wife, by the way, is Sally from Chainsaw Massacre. The husband ends up dead, the little girl ends up running and hiding, and Sally ends up tied to a bed in her underwear---which may have been provocative in some tawdry way were it not for the eyeliner and snot running down her flushed heaving face the entire time.
There's just no central drive or consistent storyline, and too many non-essential characters. At one point you do see a belligerent pre-Freddy-Freddy as he is gobbled wholesale by the expeditious crocodile. Pre-Freddy-Freddy's girlfriend looked to me like the same girl who played the recalcitrant member of the cannibal tribe from The Hills Have Eyes, but don't quote me on that, because I was quite drunk at the time.
Ultimately, the hotel's owner, Judd, deviant/killer/crockmaster/entrepreneur, ends up doing the headlong dash into the croc's gullet, and the mourners in Judd's tumultuous wake are very few and far between. As a villain, Judd translates to a queasy and unsatisfying hybrid between and estranged member of the Leatherface clan and one of the Blacks Widows from Every Which Way But Loose.
I don't know. This movie isn't like trying to sit through Hatred of a Minute or Las Vegas Blood Bath or Michael Bolton concert footage, but it's definitely not one of Tobe Hooper's crowning achievements. Still, you know, give the guy a break.
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