A group of students decide to spend their school holidays on the shores of a bay and, on this occasion, the boys decide to rent a boat. One day by chance they find huge eggs on the shore and inadvertently destroy them, arousing the ferocity of the enormous crocodile that had laid them. The terrible reptile will not stop its fury until it has eliminated everyone. "Crocodile" marks the return behind the camera of Tobe Hooper, one of the most famous horror directors, but with a rather modest result. Released in Italy exclusively for the home-video market, "Crocodile" is a sort of pseudo-sequel to "That Motel Near the Swamp" directed by the same Hooper in 1976: the plots of the two films indeed partly refer to each other, but then the development of the story takes different paths. This "Crocodile," therefore, certainly does not stand out for originality, everything is rather predictable and the film runs on the tracks of monotony and boredom. Two self-quotations by the director are noteworthy: the sequence in which one of the boys tries to start a chainsaw, clearly reminiscent of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and the "character" of the poodle, identical to that of "That Motel Near the Swamp" but, while in the 1976 film the poor quadruped ended up as food for the alligator, in this film, the little dog manages to save itself, and this speaks volumes about the new "goody-goody" trend of recent horror productions. Hooper's downward spiral seems not to stop, after the shocking debut of "Don't Open That Door" and a few other good films ("That Motel Near the Swamp" of course, or "The Funhouse"), the American director has not been able to maintain good levels, let's hope that in the future he will find his creative vein again.
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