spoilersdeath trap be a film horror film with a difference . it be possess of a special evil power most film do not have an evil power to ruin a perfectly good day and suck all the joy out of your heart and make you forget you would actually be enjoy yourself and or maybe even forget the whole idea of joy . i would be have a good day when myself and a couple of friend sit down to watch one of the 2 shiny new movie i would buy . the choice be lucio fulci surreal zombie meltdown the beyond or death trap and tobe hoopers follow up to texas chainsaw massacre . be huge tcm fan we go for death trap and after all and tobe hoopers second film have to be worth watch right . wrong and wrong and wrong and wrong and wrong . so very very wrong . death trap be basically a cut price and hillbilly and psycho rip off . at the start we meet a female character and who flee from trouble stay at a grotty hotel where the nutcase owner shockingly kill her . except where norman bates be fixate on his mother and judd have a pet crocodile . ( and you will never see the end come and not in a million year . oh ok and the croc eat judd ) then some more people show up and include the world most annoying family and and a mildly amusing robert englund a a horny redneck . most of them die and but not in any remotely interesting way . oh and and a pet dog get eat by the crocodile and possibly the highpoint of the film ( unless you really want to watch the future freddy do the nasty and in which case my advice be seek professional help . ) the main problem here be the pacing ( and the script and and a lot of the acting and and the unoriginality and but hey let stick to the pacing ) . the film be desperately slow and and i can not believe it only run the 87 minute list on the box . if so death trap must be possess of another evil power that same power doctor wait room and tube station platform have to make minute seem like hour . pretty much everything hooper do right with tcm and he mess up here . the film be ugly and lack in real atmosphere and and just so damned slow . the fact that it mostly film on one set and and in overlong take often make it feel more like a film of a really bad play than an actual movie and complete with horribly overwrought act like the cast be play to the folk at the back of the stall . bad and there no real tension the only scene with any suspense have a child crawl under the hotel to escape the crocodile and and use a child in jeopardy to provoke a response from the audience be a pretty cheap shot . death trap suffer the same problem a the 2004 dawn of the dead it not scary and or really horrible and or funny . it just painfully boring and it kill the vibe of a perfectly good day and and make at least one of my friend fall asleep . there be all sort of conspiracy to try and explain exactly how come this film be so bad ( haven not these people see lifeforce . ) and like hooper walk off or be sack or the film be re edit by the producer or the distributor or bigfoot or george w. but the plain truth be that this be an ill conceive and poorly execute failure . you can see how hooper be aim for a similar effect to tcm ( the psycho killer in the clammy southern setting and the sudden death and ott performance ) and but this time it just doesn not work . perhaps it the stagebound production and but then perhaps it just the crummy screenplay . afterwards and the only way to try to make the wasted 87 minute seem worthwhile be to then lend the film to some tcm love friend and inflict it on them too . they do not rush to thank me .