Alligator

"It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds...And it's about to break out!"

Nov 14 1980 R 1h 31m
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.

Plot

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....

Written by

John Sayles, Frank Ray Perilli

Directed by

Lewis Teague

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Alligator Inc

Languages

English

Awards

3 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
18,241
Average Rating
6.1 out of 10
Metascore
62
Popularity
NA