Neville Brand stars as a crazy old coot who owns a shabby motel on the edge of a swamp, who has a nasty habit of attacking his guests with a scythe and feeding them to his pet crocodile. There's plenty of gore and Brand rambling incoherently for long takes, and Hooper concocts a strong feeling of insanity and creepiness with next to no budget. The man eating croc looks super fake, though. Bit part for Robert Englund as redneck stud/troublemaker Buck: "My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck."

Hooper's first post-_Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ effort, this has lots of stylized lighting and a truly offbeat cast -- everyone from Morticia Addams to Freddy Krueger -- but has trouble mixing its good ol' boy humor with horror and lacks the pounding ferocity of _Chainsaw Massacre_.

Okay, so three years prior to this, Tobe Hooper had directed one of the most effectively terrifying films ever in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However, this is garbage, which brings to mind 50s horror films and even Manos: The Hands of Fate, and that is not a good thing. The crocodile element is extremely laughable, and really the only memorable thing about the film is Robert Englund and the fact Quentin Tarantino took his character's line and changed it a little for Kill Bill's Buck.

Crap.

It is a no budget exploitation film, and yet despite its obvious flaws and a giant plastic crocodile, it has an intensity to it that few horror films have. Whether its Neville Brand and his deranged mutterings or the freaky use of sound and music, combining anything from country music to screams for up to three layers of noise, it has a madness that makes it far better than it should be, just like with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and why that film is as good as it is.

Not your mainstream movie right here. Not by any account.

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kinda stupid, but awesome effects.

quite tedious at times because lack of different shooting scenes

It looks good. The "red", dark atmosphere all over the place. But that what it's all about. "My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck." Tarantino stole this quote to his Kill Bill flick.

So boring that makes me feel like i really want to be eaten alive.

"...will always be more of a curiosity piece than a truly satisfying movie in and of itself."

Brand enjoys a thespic field day as a crazed cracker. Hooper's low-budget horror is no _Texas Chainsaw Massacre_, but it's better than a lot of his later, more lavish Hollywood work.

Extremely annoying, stupid, and pointless. I also thought that the opening credit of "music composed arranged, and conducted by" was pretty funny considering that the music is a bunch of random synthesizer noise and percussive racket.

Another redneck-themed horror flick from Tobe Hooper, it is quite disturbing but doesn't rank up with his best work.