Eaten Alive - (Death Trap) - Uncut - Widescreen -

Already had this little video nasty but upgraded to this new 2k restoration looks gorgeous blu and dvd packed with lots of extras and reversible sleeve great arrow release as normal

My husband like it

Gel happy and artificial; Tobe Hooper went the complete opposite route with his follow up to "The Texas Chain Saw Massace" with "Eaten Alive".In short; for casual fans this is a bust but for lovers of 70's horror with a healthy tolerance for weird stuff this fits the bill nicely. Shot on a soundstage and with crazy bright lights from pink to green to blue and an insanely fake looking crocodile; this is nicely atmospheric but definately not very approachable for most.What's there to say about the plot? Mostly non-existent as the seemingly unhinged Neville Brand kills people who stumble on to his little motel and feeds them to his pet croc. There's a semblance of a side story with family members coming to look for the film's first victim but the other folks (a no-good redneck and another family who stop at the motel) serve no special purpose other than eventually being killed or fight for the lives."Eaten Alive", for better or worse, is a one of kind experience. Neville Brand is impressive as the film's psycho and his rants, probably on repeat viewings, will help the viewer understand his actions a bit better. Robert Englund is always fun to watch as the no-good redneck. The atmosphere Hooper conjures up is claustrophobic and well built and the film's overall offbeat nature certainly makes it stand out and, therefore, very memorable. But I can't, in all honesty, say it's very good as there are no scares to speak of and it's relatively tension free; unlike his debut feature. But the red stuff flows freely and is handled well.The Blu-ray from Arrow presents the film in spectacular fashion. The colors shine and the visuals are the film's biggest asset. The extras are fun to go through and the booklet is highly informative and opened my eyes to many different interpretations for the flick.

Awesome 80s horror

With a very slow first half, if you can wade your way through the first 40 minutes this film ignores a lot of genre tropes, making it one of the few horror films where not every death is easily predicted. It has a lot to love, but also a lot to hate, making what I imagine will be a marmite film for most.

Eaten Alive devours its chance of being a credible creature feature by rarely showing its toothy puppetry. Cult horror is typically hit or miss with my taste in cinema. Quite often, I’ll appreciate and/or understand the adoration for a flick that ages finer that a campy bloody drag act. Conversely, my mind is baffled in the reasoning behind such fondness at the best of times. Hooper’s subsequent work after the impeccable slasher ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ falls into the latter. Unnecessarily sleazy, underdeveloped maniac-syndrome and useless character choices forces this swampy hotel to be nothing more than a stagnated mess, with surprisingly laughable results. A prostitute is evicted from the town brothel and subsequently finds herself checking in at the decrepit Starlight Hotel, owned by a scythe-wielding maniac and his pet Nile crocodile.Raked to death. Scythed through the esophagus. Pushed into mystically inclined water and, you guessed it, eaten alive. Yet despite the repetitive murderous narrative structure, that sees little to no depth in the manager’s antagonistic motives (other than he’s cuckoo), there’s minimal cohesion throughout. Dumb characters check into the most dilapidated hotel available, accompanied by the ethereally strangest bright red light ever, strip so their breasts are on full-display and then encounter “Mr. Croc” (or Judd I think his name was...) who erotically moans his way to the porch where he feeds his pet puppet...I mean crocodile. With no dimensionality in any action he takes, we as the audience are simply watching his maniacal debauchery as a means of entertainment. Problem is, it’s rarely enjoyable when the characters are expendable bones. Even the abnormally shaped dog was immediately dispensable!Hooper replicated many aspects from his previous directorial efforts. Frantically running around foliage whilst in pursuit by a blade-wielding psychopath, only to then be rescued by a passing vehicle. Bloody infrequent deaths that exercise cheap yet enjoyable, if you’re a sadist like myself, gore that heightens the horror vibes residing within. But the filmmaking and its contents hide in the shadow of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, and Eaten Alive can’t seem to chomp its way out.And, again, it’s a consequence of how underdeveloped these characters are. Example: a fractious couple arrive, with the disturbed husband behaving more unusually than the flippin’ psychotic manager, to which their young daughter flees the scene and hides within the crawlspace of the hotel. For. The. Entire. Film. Screaming at anything that moves an inch, she doesn’t even try to escape knowing full well that the manager is occupied with other guests. Then the sheriff is introduced and doesn’t care about anything, running around his vehicle nonchalantly unconcerned by the bloody mess on the porch calmly stating “are you okay?”. Like heck is she okay! She just got tossed over the banister and scythed twice! Do they look like tears of joy to you? Englund, without his Freddy Krueger attire, arrives and makes love to a girl by stealing keys to a room and ignoring the squeals of a little girl underneath the floorboards? Yeah, I’m done with the characters.The production design clearly emanated an inexpensive set, with the hotel walls looking like they would flake at any moment. Although, Hooper’s score was surprisingly unflinching and, despite the audacious noises made, gave this cult horror some edgy flavour. And the crocodile moving through the crawlspace? Incredibly animate, I must confess.However, that doesn’t excuse a creature feature without prominently featuring its creature. Sure, less is more, but nothing is nothing. Masochistically sleazy, and naturally campy, yet failed to exercise its full potential by withdrawing any and all bite within its plot.

There's something about this I really like but for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is. Plastic monster, wooden acting and not so convincing effects. However I keep coming back to it. Love the colours and if anyone knows me they know I love bad acting. Love it.

Not to be confused with Umberto Lenzi's cannibalistic “Eaten Alive”, this was director Tobe Hooper first movie after “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and in place of a chainsaw as the death instrument, there’s a massive crocodile ready to chew up those visiting the dilapidated Starlight Hotel in the Louisiana Bayou.Screened (and censored) in Britain as “Death Trap”, it’s a disturbing 90 minutes with few redeeming features. Neville Brand is the scythe handling, psycho hotel owner ready to chop up the guests before they become gator bait, the cast also includes veterans Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones and Stuart Whitman who probably had nothing better on offer in the acting stakes. Set mainly within the building’s boundaries, the movie creates a claustrophobic atmosphere that hardly slackens throughout the many scenes of violence, including a small girl hiding scared under the floorboards and her dog being chewed up!A sleazy movie of extreme horror made even more realistic thanks to a fine restoration, this BluRay/DVD is given a top grade presentation by Arrow Video with a stack of Special Features and a 24 page colour booklet. But is it “entertainment” in the true sense of the word?

The atmosphere and actors in this movie are amazing! This movie is horribly slept on and is an amazing movie.The special features really give you a lot of knowledge of what this set was like. Very very cool!Lead actor is a war hero 👏 🙌 💪 ❤️Amazing screams! 👏Must watch!I watched it twice in one night and had a very long nightmare that night with music very similar to the movie lol Love this film.

DVDの品質について文句はないが、内容がｗ　２０年前に一度VHSで見たがこんな感じだったかな。これはフーパーのせいというよりはたぶん「悪魔のいけにえ」が凄すぎてそれを期待したプロデューサーらが映画をダメにしたのだろうと考えている。DVDの品質のおかげで照明とかはきれいなんだが。なんかH・G・ルイスの映画みたいに安っぽい。フレディ・クルーガーを演じて大成するロバート・イングランド。「ファントム・オブ・パラダイス」で大きな印象を残したウィリアム・フィンレイ、そして「悪魔のいけにえ」でトラウマのような名演を残したマリリン・バーンズ。フーパーも含めてみんな滑ってるｗ　主演の狂人は「悪いけ」のオールドマンの演技を求められていたようで、それがモロに出てた。これが伝説の「悪いけ」の次作で、これの次作があの傑作「死霊伝説」とは思えない。

Fueled by an undeniably eccentric and psychotic performance by the great Neville Brand, "Eaten Alive" is one of those forgotten, greasy, drive-in horror classics that belongs in every true film collector's stash of titles, and DarkSky Films has done an absolutely fantastic job on this set. While the print quality of the film is not necessarily re-mastered (it's an oldie, recall) in terms of cleaning and sharpening, this is a collector's item of a release if anything is. You probably won't be finding this one at Wal-Mart around Halloween.Tobe Hooper (whose "Poltergeist" was simply too stylish to have been concocted entirely by his own hands, but we needn't get into that here) has perfected his gritty, underground, exploitation filmmaking style with this one. Now, read me here, "Eaten Alive" is not for every taste...if you enjoy today's hyper fast editing and silly filmmaking techniques which go FLASH! and AH! at you as if you are a short-attention-spanned geek on "medication," then you won't be in this audience for long, but if you appreciate slower building tension, films that focus upon acting rather than special effects presentations, and movies that have truly lower-brow but nonetheless honest drive-in theatrical intentions, then you may end up endearing to this one as I have. Brand's performance elevates what could have been seedy material into the 'must-see' category--has there ever been a more reliable character actor than him in Western cinema? Viewers should know that there are a couple of nude scenes in the film, that come rather late into the movie...nothing too graphic (for this kind of story) but I'm giving you a heads up--still, Hooper does not eroticize these sexual situations, and that right there tells you something about his more serious intentions as a horror filmmaker. Of course, there is also some blood and gore flying about, but nothing as drastic or hair-raising as in the "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (another classic which used sound to great effect rather than expensive blood buckets). There is some screaming going on (of course), but it's not as annoying here as it is in other horror films--a cheap effect which I feel depletes the tolerability of some horror films which house pretty intense and serious narratives otherwise. And let's not forget that alligator! "The Alligator People" was not nearly as much fun as this.The DarkSky extras on this release are equally collectible and intense. Quality interviews with star Robert Englund and Marilyn Burns are very nice to listen to, while the documentary upon the real-life crazy who inspired this story is fascinating and well-done indeed (kudos to producer Michael R. Felsher, who has done a lot of great work in preserving interest in these old movies via his Red Shirt "making of" productions--titles of which also turn up on recent Blu-Ray and DVD release by the unbeatable Shout/Scream factory). This is the way that an extras disc should be done! Also, a rare (but not terribly revealing) interview with director Hooper is included...he is apparently a rather reclusive and hard to track down figure upon the movie scene (nothing wrong with that in my estimation, but odd for a horror film director with so many unusual pictures on his hands). If you consider yourself a horror collector or a horror fan, you must have "Eaten Alive" in your collection. Otherwise, forget about it being complete. Brand was one hell of an actor, and that's all that can be said about this time capsule of horror cinema. A+

It’s not the best of flicks but it’s a pretty solid,lesser known Hooper outing that is a cross of a Proto-Slasher & a Jaws Ripoff. Also of course Arrow is great with their bonus features.

Let me start by saying this is definitely not a great horror movie. It has a low budget, B type movie kind of atmosphere. There are too many long shots of main character mumbling to himself incoherently. We watch his face for minutes as he talks to himself and walks around. Screenplay is thin. Acting is not too bad. Overall, I think the movie is probably 2-3 stars out of 5. However, given its flaws, it still delivers the goods in the right moments. It still manages to create suspense. I give it credit for that. Crocodile effects could be better but they are not horrible. Again, the way it is shot and edited, its flaws are aleviated. I give it credit for that as well. Given the fact this movie wasn't all that popular, I think Arrow video gave it an amazing treatment. Video/Audio quality are quite good. There are a lot of bonus features. I listened to the feature commentary which was very informative. They did an excellent job with this product. I am glad I picked up the blu ray.