Eaten Alive

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Main Details

  • Released in 1976 | Color
  • Running Time: 91 min | UK:87 min
  • Production Co:Mars Productions Corporation
  • Distribution Co: Saguenay Films (1977) (Canada) (theatrical) | Postels (1980) (Germany) (theatrical) | Virgo International Pictures
  • Directed by Tobe Hooper
  • Written by Alvin L. Fast, Kim Henkel, Mardi Rustam
  • Starring Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones
  • Produced by Mardi Rustam
  • Original Music by Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper
  • Cinematography by Robert Caramico
  • Film Editing by Michael Brown

Plot Summary

  • A psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, 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.

Also Known As

  • Brutes and Savages | Death Trap | Horror Hotel | Horror Hotel Massacre | Legend of the Bayou | Starlight Slaughter

Taglines

  • He's out there and he's got murder on his mind!
  • Meet the maniac & his friend. Together they make the greatest team in the history of mass slaughter in... [EATEN ALIVE!]
  • Check In Alive... But Check Out Dead!

The Tarantino Connection
In Kill Bill, the character Buck repeats a line originally used in this film by another Buck (Robert Englund).
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