Several years ago, in a sci-fi/horror magazine featuring an indepth article on Robert Englund who said some interesting things about Eaten Alive.
1) It was filmed in studio (Paramount, I believe), and 2) to my surprise, Tobe Hooper walked off the film after a week. I find it hard to believe. Can anybody shed some light on this?
It was definetly almost entirely filmed in a studio, and you actually think this took longer than a week to film? Hooper probably managed to shoot most of it in the time he had, apparently producer Mardi Rustam shot some other scenes. Who know's, perhaps we'll never find out.
shareactually you're wrong. tobe hooper was replaced on another film he was supposed to have directed called "venom", which came out in 1982 and starred oliver reed. oops.
shareVenom has nothing to do with Eaten Alive. When Robert Englund was asked to relate his 'Eaten Alive' experience, he said Hooper was replaced after a week. This discussion has nothing to do with Venom, which is another matter all together. Plus, Robert Englund was not in Venom. This involves Robert Englund recounting Tobe Hooper's involvement on 'Eaten Alive.' Wake up and read the question.
shareYeah, idioit, my point is you took the whole thing out of context. I find it very unlikely that Hooper was replaced on a bunch of his movies. I have never heard a single mention of the Englund interview nor have I seen it anywhere relating to this. If you have it, please by all means site it. Or link it. Whatever. But Venom does have something to do with this: it proves you can't remember the name of another movie and you mixed them up. Dang.
shareHooper rejoined the cast of Texas and with Kim Henkel again for Eaten Alive (1976), a gory horror film with Mel Ferrer, William Finley and Marilyn Burns (who played the lead in Texas Chainsaw). The film centered around a caretaker of a motel who feeds his guests to his pet alligator. Also in the film was Robert Englund. Hooper helped raise his career and worked with him again in the future. Eaten Alive also won many awards at Horror Film Festivals.
Hooper was assigned to the Film Ventures International production of The Dark (1979), a science fiction thriller. After only three days he was fired from the film and replaced with John Cardos. Instead, Hooper had greater success with Stephen King's 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot. In 1981, Hooper directed the teen slasher film for Universal Pictures, The Funhouse; despite its
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I read the Venom thing in a Fangoria magazine book that came out and talked about different horror directors. It seems he's had problems on a few of his movies (like Poltergiest)...so it's understandable people are confused.
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This Robert Englund interview can be read here:
http://www.dufoenet.com/englund.txt
it says that Tobe Hooper had an argument with the producers in the final week of shooting. The film's editor finished the final week of shooting.
It kinda makes sense..a majority of the film moves at a fairly slow pace and builds up this bizarre atmosphere (tobe hooper)....the final portion of the film seems to drop all that, rush the conclusion and abruptly end (the editor)
Overall, Eaten Alive is a great movie and Tobe Hooper is a hell of a director.
damn right. cant wait for the special edition of this film.
"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*
"The film's editor finished the final week of shooting.
It kinda makes sense..a majority of the film moves at a fairly slow pace and builds up this bizarre atmosphere (tobe hooper)....the final portion of the film seems to drop all that, rush the conclusion and abruptly end (the editor)"
Well that's assuming they shot in sequence, which is very rare.
* If you're going to race with the devil, you'd better be fast as hell! *
In TCM Companion it as someone else has said touch on this Hopper did walk off set & Marilyn Burns shot/directed the ending as written she says she found the whole experience really odd as did so many of the other actors. She also went to see the film with her Mum & said that when Robert Englund says those immortal first words she was cringing with embarressment.
She also said that if they only wanted to interview her about Eten alive or Future Kill (As that is also touched on) she would have just deleted the email & not responded to any further emails.
The TCM companion is a very good read & shed's some light on the Cannon saga as well