before m. night shamaylan start make horribly inadequate movie after the superior sixth sense tobe hooper twenty year earlier be follow up his cult masterpiece texas chainsaw massacre with the dull and moronic eaten alive . neville brand be judd a mentally unstable owner of one of the most uninviting hotel on earth . why anyone of sound mind would want to stay here be beyond me . the soundstage it be film on doesn not help with it constant red horizon surround the place . none the less wary traveler attempt to brave the night there and be treat to be either skewer with a scythe and witch be a very inefficient murder weapon of choice personally and feed to judd pet crocodile or and just for the lady and beaten and tie up . why judd do all this be never address a it seem everyone with a pulse draw his ire . i would assume that some of his guest have to live beforehand otherwise he wouldn not be in business very long . it be impossible to watch this without compare this to texas chainsaw massacre and realize how woefully inept this be a a follow up film . the scary thing about leatherface be the fact that you can tell that this grotesque lifestyle be all he know and will ever know . judd come off a a cranky old man very much in need of a nap . the cast be forgettable a mel ferrer star in his first of two movie title eaten alive and robert englund make his film debut a buck who like to fu . fornicate . i have have scarier night at a holiday inn .