proceed his debut and no budget hit texas chainsaw massacre and tobe hooper move onto more secluded inbreeder carnage with eaten alive the touching story of a lonely hotel proprietor and his man eat crocodile . none of the guest last through the night and yet a surprising abundance of folk happen to be cruise through the backwoods bayou late at night . we see an assortment of colorful character want a room such a represent a weary hooker and a masquerading wife with her severely disturbed husband and frantic child and a father and daughter look for a miss person and and a young robert englund who happen to be an arrogant patron of the local whorehouse . eat alive be basically hooper work off the success of tcm to a visually less extent . every interior and exterior be obviously a set and and a i mention and the character seem to role in and one after another and just to be kill off by the croc . not that our one legged maniac isn not a delightfully zany guy and but the movie just feel very low budget and effortless .