Bloodwank Of the various horror notables to emerge in the 1970's Tobe Hooper scored by far the finest achievement with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Its a great shame then that he also fell the hardest, his work largely drying up and turning crappy. This Nu Image (they of such classics as Octopus, Spiders, Octopus 2 and Spiders 2) effort is pretty much his nadir, a really crummy affair that manages to be less entertaining even than the massed crappy ranks of Sci Fi Channel original creature features that have befouled screens in recent years. Its a tale of youngsters on Spring Break, partying it up on a houseboat in a lake until a couple of them come across a nest of variously shattered eggs and decide to mess around with the few that aren't broken some more. The expected happens. Now, I have absolutely zero sympathy for anyone who gets themself into a situation like this, quite apart from common decency its a matter of basic common sense not to mess with someones young, especially when you have no idea what or how big that someone is. Like, if you were trying to steal eggs from a golden eagle and the thing came down and pecked your eyes out and then pooped on you or something, nobody would be sympathetic because rank idiocy isn't a thing of sympathy. So I pretty much wanted several of the cast to die particularly horribly, and I can't say as I had nice thoughts for the rest as none of the characters are likable or interesting. Sadly, the horrible death never comes. All the kills are pretty tame, when actually on screen they generally come down to nothing more than mildly bloody and not especially convincing chomping action and occasionally some minor blood spray. It pretty much ruins things as gore was the main thing that could have propped this one up, and is especially unfortunate as the usually great KNB team handled the effects work. The crocodile itself is at least pretty cool, a good sized and decently fierce looking beast achieved through a mixture of animatronics and CGI, its more than convincing enough for a film of this stature and raises the game whenever its on screen. But since it isn't on screen all that much and rarely gets to do anything cool (mostly its just jumping and gobbling people) it doesn't raise the film too much. Still, attacks on a houseboat and local store are kinda fun and it does amuse in a couple of spots. The cast do their best with the material but its pretty much horrid so they don't put across a good impression. Mark McLachlan is a limp hero, Caitlin Martin a nice looking but dull love interest, Chris Solari making the biggest impression as the loud mouth ass of the group. There's some nice scenery and the film is never completely boring, but its really pretty terrible and I wouldn't recommend it other than to the least discerning viewers.

hjaggs Terrible dialogue, unreasonably attractive characters and semi-sane logic. All present and correct, but they appear alongside a healthy dose of fun and this makes up for a lot. Tobe Hooper's direction is fine, if a little familiar (the camera moves towards the teenagers through the reeds and water... just like a crocodile), and only adds to the playful familiarity of the film. We've seen this plot before in countless other movies, but we like it! Unlike in other films of the genre, there's nothing terribly gory or unpleasant in this film. Of course, there are deaths, but the over-acting and ludicrous circumstances render them almost jokey.This isn't a film for die-hard gore fans, but if you're looking for a gentle thrill or a funny couple of hours spent watching a friendly and rubbish, but enjoyable, great-big-animal film, this is as good a one as any.

WithTheLightsOut Let me start off by reminding everyone that Tobe Hooper is a great director, who challenged cinema in the 70's and made some great movies. 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Poltergiest' are both great scary movies and went some way in my decision to buy this movie, I worked out from the box it was straight to DVD, but the tag 'Directed By Tobe Hooper' had me thinking about uncovering a low budget horror gem. Well, after watching this movie I was speechless, from the terrible visual effects (note to low budget production teams, use animatronics and prosthetic materials and not CGI, it's cheaper and looks way cooler than badly done CGI and add a little charm to the movie) horrible acting (to be expected from a low budget flick most of the time) and really quite turgid direction from a once great cinematic force. The whole film reeks of turgid pointlessness. It's not even a fun movie, or so bad it's good like 'Shark Attack'.Have a copy of 'Poltergeist at hand if you do watch this. You'll need it to forgive Tobe.

redhead9898 I give it six stars because it was boring and it had barely any excitement but it was good. Some deaths were pointless,and some deaths were just plain stupid and idiotic...the first hour could have had a little more excitement then 2 deaths per 30 minutes. I liked the ending but i wish the 3rd main character would have died. If you watch it on TV, turn it on when it's at the the last 45 minutes with action, if you rent it, you might want to go to scene selection and skip to about (i'm guessing) like the last 5 chapters of it. we think you should give it a try and try to watch the last half-hour of this movie (which is the action sequences) and you would provably enjoy that, it is a okay movie in my opinion.