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Eaten Alive (1976)

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Director Tobe Hooper's follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre presents yet another Southern-fried psycho (this time in Louisiana) in the form of a scripture-mumbling, one-legged cracker named Judd (Neville Brand). The proprietor of a seedy bayou inn, Judd keeps a pet gator in the nearby swamp, to which he frequently tosses the remains of his unfortunate victims -- including anyone who offends his delicate sensibilities. One such casualty is Harvey Wood (Mel Ferrer), arriving at Judd's hotel in

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Alvin L. Fast, Mardi Rustam, Kim Henkel

Feb 1, 2000

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All Critics (13) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (10) | DVD (15)

Just something that those with a morbid curiosity for the unusual in sleaze might not be able to pass on.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A bizarre and largely flawed little beast, but I was pleased with the injected anarchy and direction from Hooper. However, it's clear from this that Hooper really wasn't destined for big things after "Massacre"...

October 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

[Its] off-the-wall hybridization of Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, specifically), and Lucio Fulci is more often than not sloppy.

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

Despite the incongruously sexy presence of Buck, Eaten Alive doesn't f**k with your head like Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.

September 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

With an enviable, well-stocked cast of character thespians and a carefully dilapidated motel set, Eaten Alive is all ingredients, no recipe.

September 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

This bayou-set, thinly imagined Psycho knock-off is little more than a derisible piece of slasher mayhem, notable for Tobe Hooper's association and costar Roberta Collins' assertion that star Neville Brand later tried to sexually assault her.

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

The movie is called Eaten Alive, but we get very little in terms of dinner and dessert in the horror department.

September 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Horror.com | Comment

One is tempted to wonder aloud if drugs and booze didn't actually direct this relatively woeful flick.

July 10, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Above average horror from Hooper with a satiric bent

August 21, 2002 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

will always be more of a curiosity piece than a truly satisfying movie in and of itself

February 27, 2001 Comment
Q Network Film Desk

Hooper's sophomore effort, which had a bigger budget but is lesser-known, repeats the same basic formula.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Comment
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How did Tobe Hooper retrogress so far as to go from 'Texas Chainsaw', my absolute favorite horror film to this sophomore effort which could rank as one of the worst? The gap is quality is astonishing as are the formulaic similarities. Neville Brand is a rabid hotel owner, but he is not spine-tingling; he is just

October 15, 2011
Cory Taylor

Super Reviewer

Not really that great. A mess of madcap insanity.

December 30, 2010
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Tim Salmons

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