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Genres:
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Horror /
Sci-Fi /
Comedy
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Release:
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Director:
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Lewis Teague
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Actors:
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Dean Jagger,
Perry Lang,
Angel Tompkins,
Michael V. Gazzo,
Bart Braverman,
John Lisbon Wood,
James Ingersoll,
Robert Doyle,
Patti Jerome,
Robert Forster,
Robin Riker,
Sydney Lassick,
Jack Carter,
Henry Silva,
Sue Lyon
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(5.6/10)174.5
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Plot Summary:
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Ramon the alligator is flushed down the smallest room in the house as a baby and grows into a gargantuan ghoulishness 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 because, neck if one doesn't normally go due to the fact that films with respect to superhuman alligators eating people port side, right, and center--which is the inevitable and lamentable result of Ramon's decision that the outside the public looks somewhat more stimulating than the sewers....
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Alligator
A giant alligator starts chewing its way through the good people of Chicago in this likeable if dated post-Jaws monster movie. Robert Foster stars
Alligator sits firmly in the sub-genre of movies that, in the wake of Steven Spielberg's 1975 hit Jaws, tried to cash in on the formula. Think Orca (1977), Piranha (1978), even bear yarns like Grizzly (1976) and - nurse, the screens - Claws (1977). The list is considerable. With Jaws, Spielberg really excelled in his handling of the tension. Here, director Lewis Teague doesn't even come close. Even ripping off John Williams' seminal musical motif when the alligator in question is aiming its sizeable jaws at a victim doesn't help - it just brings the derivation to the fore.
Ever had an alligator crash a wedding?
This is still as great today as it was then. The definite monster movie. I got this the other day on DVD and I couldn't believe how gory it was. It didn't look like that the last time I saw it and slightly scary too.
It was good to have a trip down memory lane and get to enjoy this movie again.
The special effects don't look dated at all; in fact they look better than the usual CGI effects that you see nowadays.
I loved to see a real good sequel to this set in the millennium.
With a great star cast in it too. Robert Forster is great as the cop in charge of eliminating the sharp toothed threat.
Just remember this don't flush anything down the toilet that doesn't belong there.
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