Alligator
– A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injecte..
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, 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.
14 Nov 1980
English
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Lewis Teague
John Sayles (screenplay), John Sayles (story), Frank Ray Perilli (story)
Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger
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....
2 nominations.
Group 1