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Alligator

United States

1980

91 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
  • Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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DIR Lewis Teague

SCR John Sayles

CAST Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Jack Carter, Dean Jagger, Henry Silva, Bart Braverman

MUSIC Graig Hundley, Craig Huxley

Synopsis

Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn’t normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center—which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon’s decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers. –IMDb

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Michael Harbour

19Jan12

Far, far better than it needed to be to succeed. The John Sayles script has more wit and even a bit more depth than usual for a cheap monster flick and the performances match it with more nuance and style than normally found in the B-movie gutters (or, in this case, sewers).

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Polyglot

22Aug10

Greatest alligator movie...wait for it...of all time.

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Uli³Cain

26Mar10

Worst nightmare I ever had was because of this movie and the fact I saw it when I had temperature of 103, probably the sickest I ever felt. Then I went to bed and had delirious dreams highlighted by by Alligator nightmare. And I think that is the only time I've seen it; is it even available on DVD?

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