MC
Marco Castellini
•Old Judd owns a run-down hotel next to a swamp; behind his innocent old man appearance hides a real mad killer, who kills, with a huge scythe, anyone who crosses his path and then throws the corpses as food to the huge alligator that lives in the adjacent swamp. In the end, it will be his hungry crocodile that will take him out, in one bite! One of Hooper's first works, another frenetic foray by the director into a provincial North America with a film that certainly does not reach the height of his masterpiece "Don't Open That Door", but still enjoyable and well-directed, which manages to convey a certain sense of anguish. Notable is the excellent performance of the protagonist Neville Brand, and the participation of Robert "Freddy" Englund, in the role of a young troublemaker. For many years unavailable in the Italian version, it is now available in a CVC edition totally uncut, with some sequences in the original language and with the cinematic trailer of the time. Finally a production company that invests its money the right way!