{"id":24301,"date":"2020-02-29T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=24301"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:12:46","slug":"le-crocodile-de-la-mort-de-tobe-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2020\/02\/29\/le-crocodile-de-la-mort-de-tobe-hooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Crocodile de la mort de Tobe Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jalons essentiels dans l\u2019histoire du cin\u00e9ma criminel, <em>Psychose<\/em> et <em>Massacre \u00e0 la tron\u00e7onneuse<\/em> partageaient une base commune\u00a0: certains \u00e9l\u00e9ments macabres de la biographie du tueur en s\u00e9rie Ed Gein avaient inspir\u00e9 Robert Bloch pour son roman <em>Psycho<\/em>, ainsi que le jeune r\u00e9alisateur texan Tobe Hooper pour son premier film d\u2019horreur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Le film suivant de Tobe Hooper poss\u00e8de un lien encore plus direct avec le chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Alfred Hitchcock. <em>Le Crocodile de la mort<\/em> (<em>Eaten Alive<\/em>, 1977) reprend en effet une partie du d\u00e9but de <em>Psychose<\/em>, notamment l\u2019arriv\u00e9e dans un motel isol\u00e9 d\u2019une jeune prostitu\u00e9e en fuite, au c\u0153ur du bayou en Louisiane. Bient\u00f4t la pauvre fille conna\u00eetra un sort aussi funeste que Janet Leigh, mais sur un mode beaucoup plus grand-guignolesque. La suite introduit un second personnage f\u00e9minin, inqui\u00e8te de la disparition de son amie, ainsi qu\u2019une galerie de seconds r\u00f4les bizarres. Le g\u00e9rant du motel, qui livre ses clients en p\u00e2ture \u00e0 un alligator, est inspir\u00e9 d\u2019une figure du folklore texan, suspect\u00e9 d\u2019avoir tu\u00e9 une vingtaine de femmes dans les ann\u00e9es 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Le Crocodile de la mort<\/em> est donc un pastiche d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 de <em>Psychose<\/em> r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par le cin\u00e9aste texan dont on mesure ici le degr\u00e9 d\u2019ironie et de pure folie de son cin\u00e9ma. C\u2019est une nouvelle fois une production ind\u00e9pendante \u00e0 petit budget tourn\u00e9e loin de Hollywood. Tandis que le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre\u00a0<em>Massacre \u00e0 la tron\u00e7onneuse<\/em>\u00a0misait sur un hyperr\u00e9alisme hallucin\u00e9 et un fait-divers atroce pour traumatiser le spectateur,\u00a0<em>Le Crocodile de la mort<\/em>\u00a0opte pour l\u2019esth\u00e9tisme des \u00ab\u00a0EC comics\u00a0\u00bb, bandes dessin\u00e9es macabres pour adultes. Les \u00e9clairages orang\u00e9s, les musiques \u00e9lectroniques, les d\u00e9cors lugubres et les sc\u00e8nes sanguinolentes instaurent un climat profond\u00e9ment malsain et hyst\u00e9rique. Ce n\u2019est rien en regard de la distribution, l\u2019une des plus \u00e9tranges de l\u2019histoire du cin\u00e9ma d\u2019horreur, compos\u00e9e de vieilles gloires des ann\u00e9es 50 en piteux \u00e9tat (Stuart Whitman, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones) et de seconds couteaux aux tronches de cauchemar (Neville Brand, Robert Englund, William Finley). La premi\u00e8re phrase prononc\u00e9e dans le film, sur un gros plan \u00e9vocateur, a \u00e9t\u00e9 reprise dans les dialogues de\u00a0<em>Kill Bill volume 1 <\/em>par Quentin Tarantino, grand admirateur de Tobe Hooper. Elle est d&rsquo;anthologie. La production du film fut aussi chaotique que le r\u00e9sultat \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cran. Tobe Hooper quitta le tournage avant la fin et ne participa pas au montage, pour cause de divergences artistiques avec ses producteurs, sp\u00e9cialistes du cin\u00e9ma d\u2019exploitation bas de gamme. Ce sera le d\u00e9but d\u2019une carri\u00e8re en dents de scie. Il n\u2019emp\u00eache que <em>Le Crocodile de la mort<\/em> compte parmi ses meilleurs films, et porte la marque de sa personnalit\u00e9 hors normes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Le Crocodile de la mort<\/em> sera disponible en Blu-ray Steelbook et DVD le 25 mars, dans une nouvelle restauration 2K, \u00e9dit\u00e9 par Carlotta.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalons essentiels dans l\u2019histoire du cin\u00e9ma criminel, Psychose et Massacre \u00e0 la tron\u00e7onneuse partageaient une base commune\u00a0: certains \u00e9l\u00e9ments macabres\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Le Crocodile de la mort de Tobe Hooper - Olivier P\u00e8re<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2020\/02\/29\/le-crocodile-de-la-mort-de-tobe-hooper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Le Crocodile de la mort de Tobe Hooper - 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