fair Hooper movie - update (Eaten Alive [1986] (DVD))

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Product:	Eaten Alive [1986] (DVD)
Date:	03/05/01 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: ex nasty, Robert Englund in early role

Disadvantages: slow paced

After making the texas chainsaw massacre(1974) Tobe Hooper made death trap(1976)... a slightly disapointing second feature, telling the story of the deranged owner of the starlight hotel (Mel Ferrer uncle of George Clooney). People keep disapearing from the starlight hotel, are they lost in the woods or is the gator Ferrer keeps as a pet getting a regular feed?

The film is watchable and has some tense moments but seems to lack the pace and originality of the texas chainsaw massacre.
the scene in which Ferrer chases a young girl around the hotel grounds and finally traps her in the crawl space beneath the hotel, shot from her point of view instills a real sense of panic in the viewer.

Whilst the acting is fair the film seems to drag along at a slow pace, aside from a few gripping moments (as above). Hooper went on to make the fair tv movie "Salems Lot" and directed the blockbuster spielberg vehicle "poltergeist". Chainsaw massacre was a promising debut for the young director... the height of his career was surely "Poltergeist" but sadly since then his career has gone down hill, low budget movies and poor tv episodes blight his filmography.

This film does little to help.


Look out for robert (freddy) englund in an early role and a cameo from marylin( Texas Chainsaw)burns.

In the uk this movie was on official "video nasty" but has since been re released on video with a few seconds of cuts (to the scene in which Ferrer kills a girl with a scythe)

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