#39 - Death Trap
Something that's just bloody typical... When I signed up for Blogathon this year, I told the boyfriend all about it. He was interested in doing it, but didn't really know if he could stay up for the whole 24 hours so he decided not to in the end (yeah, he left it to his girlfriend who has a condition that leaves her constantly exhausted to stay up for 24 hours straight...). I was talking to him earlier about how things were going, and I mentioned group blogs.
"You can do them? I didn't know you could do them! Oh, we could have done one of them!"
...I did tell him. He's just got a really bad memory. Ah well, at least we have an idea on what we're going to do next year...
Welcome to Vipco, for all your cheap crappy-movie needs. Death Trap was Tobe Hooper's film after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and he was obviously hoping to catch some of the momentup of that film with his new one.
Neville Brand plays an eccentric who owns a tatty guest house in the middle of a swamp which nethertheless has a steady stream of guests coming to it. He also has a giant crocodile in a pool next to the hotel, which he feeds unwanted guests and those he's killed with his scythe. He also has a wooden leg, where he got a little too close to the crocodile in the past. When a young family arrive at his hotel, he kills the father, assaults and ties up the mother and chases the little girl under the crawlspace of the hotel, intending to set the crocodile on her. You can probably guess that, by the end, he's been eaten by his own crocodile.
Another movie based vaguely on a true story (Joe Bell)... a lunatic chasing a half-dressed hysterical young woman through a forest while swinging a large sharp cutting implement... prolongued torture of Marilyn Burns (Sally from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)... Yup, hooper was trying to make a new version of the film which brought him all that notoriety. Unfortunately, because this film is so much weaker in all ways than TCM, he fails miserably at it. About the only other thing this film has that's worth mentioning is the first major role of one Robert Englund: "My name is Buck and i'm ready to fuck!"
"You can do them? I didn't know you could do them! Oh, we could have done one of them!"
...I did tell him. He's just got a really bad memory. Ah well, at least we have an idea on what we're going to do next year...
Welcome to Vipco, for all your cheap crappy-movie needs. Death Trap was Tobe Hooper's film after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and he was obviously hoping to catch some of the momentup of that film with his new one.
Neville Brand plays an eccentric who owns a tatty guest house in the middle of a swamp which nethertheless has a steady stream of guests coming to it. He also has a giant crocodile in a pool next to the hotel, which he feeds unwanted guests and those he's killed with his scythe. He also has a wooden leg, where he got a little too close to the crocodile in the past. When a young family arrive at his hotel, he kills the father, assaults and ties up the mother and chases the little girl under the crawlspace of the hotel, intending to set the crocodile on her. You can probably guess that, by the end, he's been eaten by his own crocodile.
Another movie based vaguely on a true story (Joe Bell)... a lunatic chasing a half-dressed hysterical young woman through a forest while swinging a large sharp cutting implement... prolongued torture of Marilyn Burns (Sally from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)... Yup, hooper was trying to make a new version of the film which brought him all that notoriety. Unfortunately, because this film is so much weaker in all ways than TCM, he fails miserably at it. About the only other thing this film has that's worth mentioning is the first major role of one Robert Englund: "My name is Buck and i'm ready to fuck!"