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Post by FireStar on Apr 2, 2011 0:17:56 GMT -5
Eaten Alive is a 1977 slasher film from the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper.
The story centers on a psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana. Killing anyone who upsets him or his hotel he disposes of their bodies by way of his pet crocodile.
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Post by bruce on Apr 11, 2011 11:32:38 GMT -5
I don't quite understand how this is considered a Slasher film, as it goes against some of the established tenants of a typical Slasher. For one thing, in nearly every Slasher film it is the killer that goes after the victims, in other words, the characters are stalked by the killer who has fixated on them in some way. This is why I personally don't consider TCM a Slasher film, there is a certain genre of horror film where the characters go someplace that they are not suppose to go, and they inevitable come into contact with some backwoods killer, who then hunts them down because they have ventured into his land. But here you have a killer who seems very content to stay to himself and it is only when the characters enter his domain that he kills them. If anything this movie belongs more to the 1970s "Alligator" films, the motel manager/killer isn't the real menace here, it is his pet croc, in fact he only seems to kill people in order to it.
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