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Release Date: 17 February, 2004 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Eaten Alive Reviews
C'mon, give it a chance!
This movie rocks! OK, maybe it's not the best written, best-set movie in the world, but if you approach this movie without those expectations, it's actually pretty good. What do I mean, exactly? First of all, the chick who played Morticia in "The Addams Family" series AND Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger to the ignorant) both find themselves in it. Isn't it kinda true that you see the REAL actor when you catch them in a movie they'd never have you see? Plus, people are too quick to bash the writing. I'll say this, you can tell that Tobe Hooper had his hand in this because it defintely has its disturbing parts. As you might expect, they don't involve the rubber alligator; the creepiest scene in my opinion is the initial dialogue between the family staying in the Starlight Hotel. What a sick, all-too-plausible character the husband is! The wife asks him, "Do you just want to feed us to the alligator? (in a lower voice) Is that what you want?" The husband replies by making a "chomping" motion with his hands over and over, and all you want is for the alligator to eventually get him. And the hotel owner is a wonderfully awful Southern parallel to some of TCM's peripheral characters. There's good stuff in here! This movie is definitely worth seeing once. I've stated my case.
The Killer and the Croc.
EATEN ALIVE is Tobe Hooper's 2nd movie to date, made 3 years after his previous work: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.
DETAILS.
Just like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, EATEN ALIVE is yet another movie based (very loosely) on a true story. I heard it was inspired by a bar owner named Joe Ball, who kept a pool of alligators in his bar, and it was rumored that he often fed his patrons to these gators. When the police came to question him, Ball killed himself.
PLOT.
Tobe Hooper VERY loosely bases this incident in EATEN ALIVE. The story is about a deranged, nerdy person named Judd who runs a motel called Starlight in the middle of a swamp. When guests check into his motel, he murders them with a sythe and feeds their bodies to his ferocious, pet crocodile.
Neville Brand (Judd) delivers an insane performance, he's crazier than the Old Man (from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), but not quite as frightening and disturbing as Leather-Face. Marylin Burns even makes an appearance in here, too (she was the heroine, Sally Hardesty; also from TCM). Also, be on the lookout for Robert Englund as Buck (...) (he would later play Freddy Krueger in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET). The crocodile effects could've used a little work though, the croc looks about as real as Barney the dinosaur.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
If EATEN ALIVE swallows you whole, should also sink your teeth into THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, FRIDAY THE 13TH, JACK FROST, JACK FROST 2: REVENGE OF THE MUTANT KILLER SNOWMAN, and PINOCCHIO'S REVENGE!
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