Director Tobe Hooper followed up his classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with this kinda similar horror tale of a hotel run by wacko Neville Brand who likes to feed various folks that set him off, for one reason or another, to his extra-large crocodile that he keeps in a moat under his establishment. Probably the best way to describe this film is that it's kinda like TCM but not quite as good. This isn't to say it's a bad watch since TCM is, by my estimation, one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Instead of a chainsaw you get a bunch of scythe violence plus lots of croc-chomping goodness(apparently this croc hadn't been fed in a long time before these events take place!). In addition to that there's a young Freddy Krueger(Robert Englund) shouting the famous line "Name's Buck and I'm rarin' to fuck"-line that Quentin Tarantino would recycle for KILL BILL, an old Morticia Addams(Carolyn Jones of THE ADDAMS FAMILY) and Marilyn Burns playing pretty much the same character she did in a year earlier in TCM. It never really manages to build the tension the way 'SAW does but still a solid Hooper entry. AKA BRUTES AND SAVAGES, DEATH TRAP, SLAUGHTER HOTEL, HORROR HOTEL, HORROR HOTEL MASSACRE, LEGEND OF THE BAYOU, MURDER ON THE BAYOU and STARLIGHT SLAUGHTER
Mr. Tobe would go on to become a technically better director but sadly more mainstream after this.
Croc horror meets Marilyn Chambers horror!:
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