Eaten Alive (1976)
- Directed by
- Tobe Hooper
- Genre
- horror film, splatter film, slasher film, thriller film, exploitation film, natural horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- R 18+
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 203 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man runs a rundown hotel in the Louisiana bayou. If a guest annoys him, he kills them and feeds them to a large crocodile living in the swamp nearby.
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What happens
Eaten Alive (known under various alternate titles, including Death Trap, Horror Hotel, and Starlight Slaughter, and stylized on the poster as Eaten Alive!) is a 1976 American exploitation slasher horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, from a screenplay by Kim Henkel, Alvin L. Fast, and Mardi Rustam. It stars Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Roberta Collins, Robert Englund, William Finley, Marilyn Burns, Janus Blythe, and Kyle Richards. The film centers on Judd (Brand), a psychotic hotel proprietor in a Southern bayou, who feeds those who upset him to a large crocodile that lives in a swamp beside the hotel. The story is loosely based on Joe Ball, a Texas murderer and suspected serial killer from the late 1930s. Although the film did not receive a warm reception when it was released, it has gained a cult following in its time, and with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974, Eaten Alive helped Hooper advance in his career, allowing him to direct his first major studio film, The Funhouse, in 1981. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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