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Tobe Hooper Review: Crocodile Madness!
Tobe Hooper Review: Crocodile Madness!
The film review pairing makes a little more sense this time. I have paired Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" with another crocodile movie, "Lake Placid", which was released just the previous year. It seems likely that Tobe Hooper's film was intended on a low budget cash-in on "Lake Placid"'s success. I'd always been told that "Lake Placid" was a horror comedy, so it seemed vital that I should see it. However, surprisingly I think I would steer people towards Tobe Hooper's offering instead.
Of course, we've already had one movie from Tobe Hooper featuring a man-eating crocodile in the video nasty "Death Trap" (or "Eaten Alive!"). This time, however, the crocodile is not a pet...
Crocodile (2000)
A lot of actors in this that have not been in anything else, but I was particularly surprised that Chris Solari had nothing else in particular on his resume. He's done some little bits of tv stuff here and there, but nothing much. While much of the acting here was nothing special, it was generally passable and most of the actors delivered their lines about as well as could be hoped. However, Chris Solari manages to showcase quite an interesting character arc and I really appreciated what he did with the role. Perhaps it was the writing, perhaps it was the directing, but acting definitely had to play a part and most likely it was a combination of at least two of those (probably not the writing).
( Review for Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" under the cut... )
Lake Placid (1999)
I decided to follow up watching Crocodile by watching "Lake Placid". I'd been meaning to see "Lake Placid" for years. With my recent craze for horror comedies it seemed particularly important because I'd heard that this film does not really take itself seriously.
( Review for Lake Placid under the cut... )
The film review pairing makes a little more sense this time. I have paired Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" with another crocodile movie, "Lake Placid", which was released just the previous year. It seems likely that Tobe Hooper's film was intended on a low budget cash-in on "Lake Placid"'s success. I'd always been told that "Lake Placid" was a horror comedy, so it seemed vital that I should see it. However, surprisingly I think I would steer people towards Tobe Hooper's offering instead.
Of course, we've already had one movie from Tobe Hooper featuring a man-eating crocodile in the video nasty "Death Trap" (or "Eaten Alive!"). This time, however, the crocodile is not a pet...
Crocodile (2000)
A lot of actors in this that have not been in anything else, but I was particularly surprised that Chris Solari had nothing else in particular on his resume. He's done some little bits of tv stuff here and there, but nothing much. While much of the acting here was nothing special, it was generally passable and most of the actors delivered their lines about as well as could be hoped. However, Chris Solari manages to showcase quite an interesting character arc and I really appreciated what he did with the role. Perhaps it was the writing, perhaps it was the directing, but acting definitely had to play a part and most likely it was a combination of at least two of those (probably not the writing).
( Review for Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" under the cut... )
Lake Placid (1999)
I decided to follow up watching Crocodile by watching "Lake Placid". I'd been meaning to see "Lake Placid" for years. With my recent craze for horror comedies it seemed particularly important because I'd heard that this film does not really take itself seriously.
( Review for Lake Placid under the cut... )