Alligator

(1980)

★ 6 IMDb · 401 votes

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 1980

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Lewis Teague

Cast: Роберт Форстер, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Сидни Лэссик, Джек Картер, Перри Лэнг, Генри Сильва, Bart Braverman, John Lisbon Wood

Plot

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.

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..