Eaten Alive (1976)
Directed by Tobe Hooper
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.
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Now, after nine years away from the genre, he dives back in with “X” a gory tribute to Austin filmmaker Tobe Hooper and while “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is the first thing that comes to mind, it seems that West was inspired by Hooper’s follow-up 1976’s “Eaten Alive.”
He also evokes other major horrors — especially Psycho and Hooper’s Chain Saw follow-up, Death Trap , aka Eaten Alive — to build background dread while the main characters think they’re in a comical, down-home Boogie Nights .
Returning to feature length filmmaking for the first time since 2013’s The Sacrament, West delivers his best Tobe Hooper impression with this loving pastiche of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Eaten Alive.
A deep-fried scummy Texas tale that summons up all of the grimy goopy 70s Tobe Hooper feels—most obvious (times twenty) it’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , but there’s also a good dose of Hooper’s ribald alligator epic Eaten Alive here for good measure—the first thing we hear is the buzzing of flies, and the next thing we see are the reddest, wettest guts splattered across the highway.
…does suffer from a kind of cinematic inbreeding, taking a major inspiration from a bizarre genre of 1970’s shockers like John Boorman’s Deliverance, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Eaten Alive, as well as Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes and it’s sequel.
Mr. Z. may love the old movies, but he's mostly remonkeyed some hybrid of a trio of Tobe Hooper movies (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eaten Alive and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) with weird echoes of Dan Aykroyd's misbegotten sole directing effort, Nothing But Trouble.