ALLIGATOR directed by Lewis Teague (USA, 1980)
This is the cautionary tale of what happens when a young girl’s baby alligator, Ramón, gets flushed down the toilet by her animal phobic father.
Twelve years later the girl ,Marisa (Robin Riker), has grown up to be an authority on reptiles and her pet Ramón has grown up to become a man-eating monster.
Marisa’s expertise is such that she knows alligators’ natural instinct is to look for water. Seemingly you get a degree in lizard science if you learn such things. What she doesn’t know is that if a baby gator’s diet consists of dead dogs pumped full of experimental hormones they will grow to mega-proportions and terrorise a city.
Bloody limbs in the sewers convince a dim-witted St Louis police squad that there’s something in the water. David Madison (Robert Forster) is the stressed cop with bad hair assigned to the task of going down the drains. Continue reading
