| Eaten Alive | |
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| Title: | Eaten Alive |
| Directed by: | Tobe Hooper |
| Written by: | Alvin L. Fast Mardi Rustam Kim Henkel |
| Produced by: | Mohammed Rustam; Mardi Rustam; Alvin L. Fast; Robert Kantor; Larry Huly; Samir Rustam |
| Music by: | Wayne Bell; Tobe Hooper |
| Cinematography: | Robert Caramico |
| Edited by: | Michael Brown |
| Production | |
| Distributors: | Mars Productions Corporation; Dark Sky Films; Elite Entertainment; MPI Media Group |
| Released: | October, 1976 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 91 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $520,000 |
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Eaten Alive is an American independent horror film directed by Tobe Hooper. Produced by Mohammed, Mardi and Samir Rustam of the Mars Productions Corporation, it opened to limited theatrical release in the United States in October, 1976 It was re-released in the U.S. on September 23rd, 1977. The film stars Neville Brand as Judd, the proprietor of a sleazy motel in the swamps of Elmendorf, Louisiana. When a distraught prostitute comes to his establishment, Judd decides that she is of questionable virtue and murders her with a scythe, before feeding her to his pet crocodile. This begets a chain of events as Judd's psychosis grows to a fever pitch and the bodies begin to pile up.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Neville Brand | Judd |
| Mel Ferrer | Harvey Wood |
| Carolyn Jones | Miss Hattie |
| Marilyn Burns | Faye |
| William Finley | Roy |
| Stuart Whitman | Sheriff Martin |
| Roberta Collins | Clara |
| Kyle Richards | Angie |
| Robert Englund | Buck |
| Crystin Sinclaire | Libby Wood |
| Janus Blyth | Lynette |
| Betty Cole | Ruby |
| Sig Sakowicz | Deputy Girth |
| Ronald W. Davis | Country boy |
| Christine Schneider | Waitress |
| David Hayward | The Cowboy |
| David "Goat" Carson | Marlo |
| Lincoln Kibbee | First guy in bar |
| James Galanis | Second guy in bar |
| Tarja Leena Halinen | Miss Hattie's girl |
| Caren White | Miss Hattie's girl |
| Valerie Lukeart | Miss Hattie's girl |
| Scuffy | Snoopy |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline for this film is "He's out there and he's got murder on his mind!"
- Also known as Brutes and Savages and Slaughter Hotel.
- Pre-production on Eaten Alive began on April 26th, 1976.
- Associate producer Robert A. Kanto is credited as Robert Kantor in this film.
- On the Internet Movie Database, Eaten Alive has a Starmeter rating of 5.5 out of 10 based on 8,800 user ratings. Its unweighted mean is 5.6 with 22% of the voting population rating it as a 6 out of 10. 5.2% of the voting pool ranked the film as a 10 while 3.8% of the voting pool ranked it as a 1.
- On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Eaten Alive holds a Tomatometer rating of 35% based on 17 posted critic reviews. It has 6 positive reviews and 11 negative reviews, averaging 4.70 out of 10. The film has an audience score of 30% based on more than 2,500 user ratings, averaging 2.7 out of 5.
- This is the first horror film role for actor Robert Englund. Englund will go on to become an icon of the genre for his portrayal of dream demon/serial killer Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
- Actress Kyle Richards is also known for playing the role of Lindsey Wallace in John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic, Halloween. This is her second film. She also played a character named Debbie in the 1977 movie, The Car.
- This is the third film role for actress Marilyn Burns. Burns starred in Tobe Hooper's first film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Sally Hardesty. She also played the role of Charles Manson follower-turned-state witnees Linda Kasabian in the true-crime film Helter Skelter.
- Robert Englund's first line of dialogue is "My name is Buck, and I'm rarin' to fuck". This line is more famously paraphrased by another character named Buck in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 in 2003. Both characters are pretty much scumbags.
Home Video[]
- Eaten Alive was released to Region 1 DVD, widescreen format by Elite Entertainment and Dark Sky Films on February 1st, 2001. The Special Edition DVD, which contains an extra three minutes of footage was released by Dark Sky and MPI Home Video on September 26th, 2006. Bonus features include special audio commentary by producer/co-writer Mardi Rustam, actors Robert Collins, Kyle Richards, William Finley and makeup artist Craig Reardon. The disc also included a "My Name is Buck" featurette starring actor Robert Englund. Other features include "The Butcher of Elmendorf" feature, still galleries and trailers. A two-disc special edition of the film was released by Dark Sky Films on September 25th, 2007. This version includes the same featurettes as the single-disc Special Edition, but also includes a feature called "5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns", alternate credit and title sequences, a behind-the-scenes slideshow and comment cards.
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