A
disturbed man named Judd (Neville Brand)
runs a run down hotel in a swampy area of
Louisiana and has slaughtered a hooker
there when he finds out that she was one
of Miss Hattie's former employees at her
hotel and then feeds her to his pet
crocodile.
Two family members named Harvey (Mel
Ferrer) and his daughter Libby (Crystin
Sinclaire) tries to search for her and
unfortunately stayed at Judd's hotel
while doing so.
Meanwhile, a family drops by to ask for
directions and Judd's crocodile attacks
and eats their dog so they stay at the
hotel to overcome the shocking encounter
to what happened.
He kills his other residents while
staying there and keeps feeding them to
his pet crocodile and tortures some
people too.
This film doesn't
really go anywhere but is still at times
amusing.
Made on a low budget and badly edited.
Sadly, the film wasn't what I expected it
to be when I read the story about it as I
was thinking that it would have more
action in it.
The acting is in
good shape as we have some familiar faces
in it.
Neville Brand was great at
playing a psychopath b ringing his
character to life and had the perfect
looks for it too.
Stuart Whitman plays a great
sheriff not taking crap from any rednecks
Speaking of a redneck, before his Freddy
Krueger years Robert Englund
plays a wild young one named Buck and is
extremely energetic too.
Marilyn Burns has a good
supporting role in the film as her acting
is almost just as intense as her role in
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She
gets abused the most in the film too.
I enjoyed Cristin Sinclaire's
performance the most as the sister of the
killed hooker. She was also noted for
co-starring in the Donny & Marie
juvenile motion picture Goin
Coconuts.
Cristin
Sincliare gets undressed and her
breasts are revealed.
A hooker has a see through blouse in the
beginning of the film.
Another hookers butt is revealed.
The violence is a
little graphic as Judd brutally stabs his
victims with a couple of sharp metallic
objects. It's not overly gory though.
This was Tobe
Hooper's follow up after his cult
classic flick Texas Chainsaw
Massacre.
He shows a perfect opening with as full
moon behind some clouds at night.
He certainly knows how to make the film
just as intense like with the killings
and with the Richards as the
little girl hiding from Brand's
character while he tries to get his
crocodile after her but he sadly doesn't
meet up to his work in this one as the
story becomes terribly bland and trite.
He coached Richards well at
being shaken up after her dog was killed
by the crocodile and Finley knew
how to act just plain crazy after
wintessing it too who player her father
as Hooper makes you think what
the hell is going on with this guy.
Also when Finley tries to kill
the crocodile there's a perfect scene of Brand
slaying him and then the crocodile
jumps up and grabs him down into it's
watery pit
He also directed a real disturbing moment
when Brand slaps Burns' character
around and ties her to a bed gagged.
Tobe Hooper and
Wayne Bell certainly mix similar
elements with cheesy sound effects like
they did in TCM and it
works well especially the opening music
although some can get a headache hearing
it.
Buck: My
name is Buck and i'm ready to fuck!
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