B is for Bad: A B-Movie Review Podcast
Sep 17, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
This week on **B Is for Bad**, we check into Tobe Hooper’s grimy, fever-dream horror movie **Eaten Alive (1976)** — where an unhinged motel owner has a giant crocodile living right outside and an…
this week we're watching a very interesting movie that i actually heard on a podcast that was about the actual killer from the movie
oh interesting
yeah that's how i learned about this movie eaten alive and not the famous one the other one
I almost watched the other one, and then I was like, I don't
think Scott said it
was about a gator.
Yeah, well, because they're both kind of about gators, I think.
Yeah, well, and it's interesting, too, because they're like four years apart.
So they're kind of close, which is crazy.
This Eatin' Alive is... it's a lot it is like the opening scene pretty much tells you exactly what this movie is gonna be about like yep that opening i will say that opening scene the entirety of it was horrific for so many reasons like he was trying to go full like let me show you how shitty texas people are and this director the guy i think he's from the uk
But, you know, in the rural South, that's how they are, you know.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
No,
yeah, it's definitely not that crazy.
Especially not now.
Yeah, especially not.
Maybe in the 70s it was far worse.
this week we're watching a very interesting movie that i actually heard on a podcast that was about the actual killer from the movie
oh interesting
yeah that's how i learned about this movie eaten alive and not the famous one the other one
I almost watched the other one, and then I was like, I don't
think Scott said it
was about a gator.
Yeah, well, because they're both kind of about gators, I think.
Yeah, well, and it's interesting, too, because they're like four years apart.
So they're kind of close, which is crazy.
This Eatin' Alive is... it's a lot it is like the opening scene pretty much tells you exactly what this movie is gonna be about like yep that opening i will say that opening scene the entirety of it was horrific for so many reasons like he was trying to go full like let me show you how shitty texas people are and this director the guy i think he's from the uk
But, you know, in the rural South, that's how they are, you know.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
No,
yeah, it's definitely not that crazy.
Especially not now.
Yeah, especially not.
Maybe in the 70s it was far worse.
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