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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" height="99%" valign="top">   <p>When she's not ready to perform sex with Robert Englund the way he wants it, a girl is thrown out of Carolyn Jones' brothel, only to end up in Neville Brand's hotel somewhere way out in the Louisiana swamps. Thing is, Brand does not like the company of ex-prostitutes all that much, so he feeds her to his pet-alligator he once had flown in from Africa. Soon the girl's sister (Crystin Sinclaire) & father (Mel Ferrer) also stop by Brand's place, actually looking for her. Brand provides them with some clues leading to the whorehouse, sending them off to the city & to sheriff Stuart Whitman, while Brand keeps busy killing some other patrons of his hotel & feeding them to his alligator - a father of a family, whose wife he binds to a bed & whose daughter he locks up under the house, Robert Englund & his girlfriend, who just came for a quiet fuck in one of the hotel's rooms, & of course Mel Ferrer upon returning to the place. However, in the end Brand gets his just reward ending up as a meal for his alligator himself.<p>   <p>Director Tobe Hooper's career is one of the saddest & most disappointing inside the horror business: After his first movie, <b><a href="texaschainsawmassacre(1974).shtml">Texas Chainsaw Massacre</a></b> (1974) - a genuine & undisputed classic, and one promising first feature if I ever saw one - he directed this one, a little & unremarkable shocker that has nothing to distinguish itself from other little & unremarkable shockers from the same era. Later even more disappointing movies included the Stephen King-TV-bore <b>Salem's Lot</b> (1979), the mainstreamed big budget Steven Spielberg-movie <b>Poltergeist</b> (1982), the lame rip-off of the already incredibly lame <b>Firestarter</b>, <b>Spontaneous Combustion</b> (1989), the Stephen King-absurdity <b>The Mangler</b> (1994) or the semi-sequel to <b>Death Trap</b>, the incredibly impersonal <b>Crocodile</b> (2000) - & even his more entertaining pictures like <b>Lifeforce</b> or <b><a href="livingnightmare(1993).shtml">Living Nightmare</a></b> have little more than trash-value.<p>This movie itself is actually doing pretty well in the colour department - its nice sepia & blueish tones give the movie the appropriate swamp-feeling, but it does seriously lack any characterizations of all persons involved that would be so needed to idetnify with the proceedings & even Neville Brand does little more than mumbling to himself all the time - which actually could have worked would he have about anything to say in his long monologues. & the crocodile is just a bad & motionless prop, totally failing to scare anyone - in above mentioned <b>Crocodile</b>, Hooper hat a CGI-reptile, which by the way didn't work any better either, looking totally unconvincing amidst its surroundings. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2003"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>