Alligator (1980)

87 min · Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

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Directors

Lewis Teague

Cast

Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva

The story

In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida and gives it the name Ramon. When the family returns home to Missouri, the girl's surly, animal-phobic father promptly flushes it down the toilet and into the city's sewers. The baby alligator survives by feeding on the discarded carcasses of pet animals (mostly dogs) used in illegal experimentation and dumped into the sewers.

Catalogue themes and tags

Natural horror films, Science Fiction, Horror, Creature Film, Cult, Satire, Comedy, Monster

Genres

Animalhorror, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

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