EATEN ALIVE (1976)
Starring Marilyn Burns and Neville Brand
Back when Hooper was still making good movies, he followed up the international success of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with this surreal film, which also goes under the names "Horror Hotel," "Death Trap," "Brutes and Savages, "Legend of the Bayou," among countless other titles.
It's a decent early splatter film, and it's fun to see it open up with Robert Englund (Freddie Krueger from "A Nightmare on Elm Street") in a small role as a John at a whorehouse. (Engulnd and Hooper would later team up to make the god-awful "The Mangler.") A prostitute who is tossed out of her whorehouse winds up at a swamp-side hotel which, naturally, is run by a homicidal maniac (Brand, who is hilarious).
If you can get over the incredibly ridiculous looking, curly blonde wig that the whore is wearing, there's a lot to like in this movie, from colorful lighting to Carolyn Jones in a role as a creepy whorehouse madame. Basically anyone who shows up at Brand's swamp-side hotel winds up dead. Brand often feeds them to a pet crocodile.
A must-see for fans of "Texas" or anyone else looking for an obscure horror gem. Mainstream audiences might not get the pic's appeal, however.