A Night At The Starlight Hotel

Eaten Alive
Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Man, this year really has flown by.  Last night's screening at the Mahoning was the final Thursday Thread-Up night of the 2024 season.  Next Thursday is the final Patreon screening, and drive-in will be closed for the winter after the following weekend has ended.

Show banner designed by Andrew Kern

Eaten Alive premiered in theaters 48 years ago today on October 18th, 1976.  It was Tobe Hooper's follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which was released two years earlier.

This movie wasn't really my cup of tea.  It's about a man named Judd (Neville Brand) who assaults every woman he sees and feed everyone who visits his hotel to the crocodile until he gets his comeuppance in a manner that I'm sure you can guess.  It sounds like a halfway decent premise to a cheesy horror flick, but it never really came together for me.  The highlight performance was a young Robert Englund as Buck, but even that lacked depth.  I wouldn't say that this is a terrible film, but the whole thing felt flat and disjointed... like a sketch comedy show, but with acts of violence in place of jokes.  I'm glad to have had the opportunity to see it on 35mm, but this one is going to be a one-time screening for me.