The In 1976, director Toby Hooper followed up the cult success of his horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with something even more nightmarish and deranged.

Once again, a sweaty, grimy movie about dangerous psychopaths in the Deep South,

this time loosely based on the true story of Joe Ball, a bar owner who had

murdered several women and reportedly had fed them to his pet alligator.

Unlike Texas Chainsaw, this film was shot entirely on a sound stage and relied

less on documentary style realism and more on queasy surrealism. But like the Texas Chainsaw, it was reportedly a difficult production

for everyone involved, and Toby Hooper reportedly walked off the project shortly before it ended.

This proved to be a pattern with Toby Hooper, who often was involved in difficult productions.

In 1981, he was given the job to direct a killer snake movie called Venom, but left the project early on and was replaced by Blood on Satan's claw director Piersiers Hagard. Even without Hooper, this production was

notoriously problematic, not because of having to deal with a live black mamba, but because of

working with two of the most notoriously difficult actors

in the industry, Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror and we discuss two unhinged animal attack movies,

eaten alive and venom. Eton Alive and Venom

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike Muncer and as ever I am your host. In this

podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror

genre one sub-genre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution

of nature biting back in horror and this week we are talking about two

notoriously troubled productions Toby Hooper's Eton the Live and Piers Hagard's Venom.

These will both be spoiler-ific discussions, give them both a watch before you listen to our conversation if you dare. So joining me to discuss these

two insane movies, a very long time friend of the pod, he is one of my fellow Dream Warriors,

he is host and creator of the Brain Rock Podcast and he is the star of the new Dolly Parton

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