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Watch: Eaten Alive 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel’s front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control..
Plot: A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
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	5.5/10 Votes: 7,770
	35% | RottenTomatoes
	48/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 138 Popularity: 10.441 | TMDB

Reviews:

Eaten Alive devours its chance of being a credible creature feature by rarely showing its toothy puppetry. Cult horror is typically hit or miss with my taste in cinema. Quite often, I’ll appreciate and/or understand the adoration for a flick that ages finer that a campy bloody drag act. Conversely, my mind is baffled in the reasoning behind such fondness at the best of times. Hooper’s subsequent work after the impeccable slasher ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ falls into the latter. Unnecessarily sleazy, underdeveloped maniac-syndrome and useless character choices forces this swampy hotel to be nothing more than a stagnated mess, with surprisingly laughable results. A prostitute is evicted from the town brothel and subsequently finds herself checking in at the decrepit Starlight Hotel, owned by a scythe-wielding maniac and his pet Nile crocodile.

Raked to death. Scythed through the esophagus. Pushed into mystically inclined water and, you guessed it, eaten alive. Yet despite the repetitive murderous narrative structure, that sees little to no depth in the manager’s antagonistic motives (other than he’s cuckoo), there’s minimal cohesion throughout. Dumb characters check into the most dilapidated hotel available, accompanied by the ethereally strangest bright red light ever, strip so their breasts are on full-display and then encounter “Mr. Croc” (or Judd I think his name was…) who erotically moans his way to the porch where he feeds his pet puppet…I mean crocodile. With no dimensionality in any action he takes, we as the audience are simply watching his maniacal debauchery as a means of entertainment. Problem is, it’s rarely enjoyable when the characters are expendable bones. Even the abnormally shaped dog was immediately dispensable!

Hooper replicated many aspects from his previous directorial efforts. Frantically running around foliage whilst in pursuit by a blade-wielding psychopath, only to then be rescued by a passing vehicle. Bloody infrequent deaths that exercise cheap yet enjoyable, if you’re a sadist like myself, gore that heightens the horror vibes residing within. But the filmmaking and its contents hide in the shadow of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, and Eaten Alive can’t seem to chomp its way out.

And, again, it’s a consequence of how underdeveloped these characters are. Example: a fractious couple arrive, with the disturbed husband behaving more unusually than the flippin’ psychotic manager, to which their young daughter flees the scene and hides within the crawlspace of the hotel. For. The. Entire. Film. Screaming at anything that moves an inch, she doesn’t even try to escape knowing full well that the manager is occupied with other guests. Then the sheriff is introduced and doesn’t care about anything, running around his vehicle nonchalantly unconcerned by the bloody mess on the porch calmly stating “are you okay?”. Like heck is she okay! She just got tossed over the banister and scythed twice! Do they look like tears of joy to you? Englund, without his Freddy Krueger attire, arrives and makes love to a girl by stealing keys to a room and ignoring the squeals of a little girl underneath the floorboards? Yeah, I’m done with the characters.

The production design clearly emanated an inexpensive set, with the hotel walls looking like they would flake at any moment. Although, Hooper’s score was surprisingly unflinching and, despite the audacious noises made, gave this cult horror some edgy flavour. And the crocodile moving through the crawlspace? Incredibly animate, I must confess.

However, that doesn’t excuse a creature feature without prominently featuring its creature. Sure, less is more, but nothing is nothing. Masochistically sleazy, and naturally campy, yet failed to exercise its full potential by withdrawing any and all bite within its plot.

***After the success of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Hooper delivers a sleazy DUD***

The crazy dirtbag manager of a rundown hotel in east Texas (Neville Brand) threatens his clients if they upset him and feeds them to his pet croc. The cast includes notables like Mel Ferrer, Stuart Whitman, Carolyn Jones and a young Robert Englund.

Despite the presence of the croc, “Eaten Alive” (1976) is more of a slasher flick than crocogator horror (the croc is strictly peripheral, not to mention unconvincing). This was Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to his unexpected hit “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974) wherein he borrows the plot of “Psycho” (1960). Unfortunately, he spectacularly fumbles the ball.

The surreal style, sets and cast are all good, but there’s a lack of confidence in the execution: The flick’s full of nonsensical actions, meanderings and padding. Hooper tried to make up for it by exploiting the women with lots of raunch & nudity, but “Chainsaw Massacre” proved that a slasher didn’t need this to be effective.

Janus Blythe stands out in the feminine department as Lynette, as does Roberta Collins as Clara. Marilyn Burns (Faye) and Crystin Sinclaire (Libby) are also noteworthy.

Thankfully, Hooper moved on to much better productions, like “Salem’s Lot” (1979), “The Funhouse” (1981) and “Crocodile” (2000).

The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, CA.

GRADE: C-/D+

messed up
Delirious, surreal, and savage, Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to his landmark debut (“Chainsaw” for those not in the know), is one of a kind while bearing the same signature stamp he left with his predecessor. A sheer unrelenting onslaught of pure madness, macabre and dark humor. Although not as entirely successful as Chainsaw, “Eaten Alive” is one messed up little drive in flick with good performances particularly by Brand as the psycho Inn keeper of “Starlight Hotel”. Mumbling incoherently through most of his screen time and sputtering gibberish when audible, Neville Brand is eerily convincing. The beginning of this picture owes to Psycho in that you meet a character that you are led to believe is the (no pun intended) titular heroine but is quickly dispatched and we are left with the equally sleazy and\or oddball residents of the locale like ole’ country boy Buck (Englund, who’s a hoot) or that oddball couple who’s dog gets chomped by the gator that lives in the swamp behind the hotel. It’s that kind of movie folks so be aware what you’re getting into. Creepy, oddball fun.

Tobe Hooper’s Lesser-Known Film
A psychotic redneck (Neville Brand) who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

This film is very loosely based on the story of 1930s serial killer Joe Ball from Elmendorf, Texas. He owned a bar with an alligator pit serving as an entertainment attraction. Several murders of women ensued, and flesh was later found in the pit.

According to makeup artist Craig Reardon, cinematographer Robert Caramico directed several scenes due to creative differences between Tobe Hooper and the films’ producers. I would love to have this confirmed by anyone else associated with the film. Hooper mixes sex and violence like few others and for that reason I would still have to say this is ultimately his vision… but this is not the only film where Hooper’s direction came under question (Poltergeist).

The cast is excellent, with Mel Ferrer, Robert Englund as an anal rapist, and Hooper veteran Marilyn Burns. Englund’s line, “Name’s Buck…” became inspiration for Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”… William Finley (“Phantom of the Paradise”) is here. And Kyle Richards (“Halloween”). And, of course, we have World War II hero Neville Brand…

Roberta Collins plays a good lead, and she proudly acknowledges this is the only horror film she had done (apparently not counting “Saturday the 14th”). Despite being in some other cult films (like “The Big Birdcage” with Pam Grier and “Death Race 2000”), she may not be well-known to horror fans, which is a shame. Take in her performance and her very odd character, as she is sadly no longer with us.

Sure, this movie has cheesy alligator effects, and the sets look like the Third World, but everything is still somehow effective and it is an enjoyable flick for horror buffs. If you are a fan of Hooper and have not seen this one, see it. You just cannot top the classics. I recommend picking up the Dark Sky version. While the film is still gritty, they did a fine job of cleaning it up — other companies have put an almost unwatchable VHS transfer on DVD.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min), 1 hr 27 min (87 min) (UK)
Budget 520000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Thriller
Director Tobe Hooper
Writer Alvin L. Fast, Mardi Rustam, Kim Henkel
Actors Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm