Eaten Alive
70s Cult
•
1h 30m
1976 • United States • Directed by Tobe Hooper
Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Deep in the Louisiana bayou sits the ramshackle Starlight Hotel, destination of choice for those who like to check in but not check out! Bumbling Judd, the patron of this particular establishment, may seem like a good-natured ol Southern gent but he has a mean temper on him, and a mighty large scythe to boot...
Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-stage which lends it a queasy, claustrophobic feel), Eaten Alive matches The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for sheer insanity helped in no small part by some marvellous histrionics from Chain Saw star Marilyn Burns and William Finley (Phantom of the Paradise).
Up Next in 70s Cult
-
The Shaolin Plot (English version)
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Huang Feng
In 1977, fight choreographer Sammo Hung made one last film under his mentor, director Huang Feng (Lady Whirlwind, Hapkido) before graduating to the director's chair himself with The Iron-Fisted Monk. That film was the rarely-seen martial arts ensemble th...
-
The End of Man
1971 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
Diverging from horror toward satirical black comedy, The End of Man sees a naked stranger (played by Marins) emerge from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world, but things are...
-
The Awakening of the Beast
1970 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
Sex, perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture.
What starts as a pseudodocumentary featuring a panel of psychiatrists and wr...
