Alligator

Alligator (1980)
Director: Lewis Teague
Tagline: « Beneath those manholes, a man-eater is waiting … »
Actors:
David Madison
Marisa Kendall
Chief Clark
Slade
Luke Gutchel
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating:  vote average (18’589 votes)
Quotes: « Callan: [David, Marisa and Callan are walking through the sewer system] What the hell we looking for? » « David: Anything that looks like it doesn't belong here. » « Marisa: Uh, evidence of alligator nesting. » « Callan: I see, like shoes, handbags, luggage… » « Bob: We got a big toe in the morgue once. Nothing else; just a big toe. Never found the rest of him. But, we figured out who it was. Had a funeral and everything. » « David: Must have been a pretty small casket. » « Gutchel: How about cats? I got plenty of cats. I also got a parrot I'd like to get rid of. »
Trailer: Official Trailer
Runtime:91 minutes
Plots: A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu. Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals that 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.. A teenage girl’s pet baby alligator is flushed down the toilet by her animal-phobic father and it ends up in the city’s sewers. Fast forward 12 years, and the alligator survives by feeding on carcasses thrown in the sewer that were used as test subjects for an experimental growth hormone and for anabolic formulas. Because of the effects of the hormones, the alligator has grown massively huge, with a thick skin and an insatiable appetite, and it begins devouring sewer workers that it encounters in the sewer.

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