#alligator 1980

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Alligator (1980) // Dir. Lewis Teague

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Alligator (1980)

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Alligator (1980)

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Tabletop game based on the movie Alligator (1980)

"Spin the spinner and feed the gator…. It'll be stuffed sooner or later. Feed it a tiny too much food….. its jaws snap shut. In a furious mood.. then you're out… you lose…. too bad. It's fun to make a gator mad."

from boardgamegeek.com

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Alligator 🐊 (1980)

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A guy called Ed Norton gets killed offscreen in Alligator and when I first heard his name, my first thought was, 'oh shit, the actor?'

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This day Alligator was released (NYC)

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Alligator (1980) Review

Chicago police officer and a reptile expert track an enormous, ravenous man-eating alligator flushed down the toilet years earlier. Alligator, the 1980 creature feature, emerges as a delightful amalgamation of suspense and wit, borrowing elements from the iconic Jaws franchise, Grizzly (1976), Orca (1977) and Piranha (1978) while carving its own niche in the realm of creature horror. Director…

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Horror Movies I just Watched: Jan 2023

I’m back! Since I watch new horror movies all year long these days anyway, might as well continue this on a monthly basis. So I started off 2023 with these:

Noroi: the Curse  More of a mockumentary mixed with a found footage film. I feel the rules here are less defined then with the Ring or the Grudge, though maybe I just having trouble keeping up. While that can hurt the wide appeal, I think it helps the quality. It’s scarier if you don’t fully know how to avoid or escape Kagutaba. All this film does is give you point of views.

Alligator(1980) Animal attack movies feel weird to me for this. Yes, they’re structurally monster movies, that are, on paper, a lot more scary when the monster is actually real (Sure helped with Jaws’ effectiveness), but it’s that strange extra dose of realism that fails to engage me most of the time. I’m going in knowing this isn’t invincible agent of evil precisely. It’s no more immoral then the humans it eats or attacks because all it’s got is instincts.

For this film, it was never really scary. The big gator puppet was goofy whenever it was on screen. But I did enjoy whenever it was on screen, especially when it literally crashed that wedding. Kinda wished the female lead, who was his last owner all grown up, would realize it and had a moment with Ramon the gator. I don’t know WHAT that moment would be (An apology, a mercy kill, etc.), but otherwise, I felt that prologue is pointless. Big guy deserved at least to get out of Chicago.

Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives The fourth film in this franchise I’ve seen and so far my favorite. Yeah, sadly not a hot take. This one or 4 is considered the best. But this gave more of what I want. Now a confirmed classic zombie, looks like Jason has enough energy to terrorize more then his camp, even if he always goes back there, leading to a wide variety of dead meat.

While Tommy this time is a unique protagonist for this franchise in that he already knows Jason is around (because it’s sorta his fault), I’m a bit annoyed he’s naïve enough to think the police would help. They gave him more difficulty then Jason. I guess that makes sense, since it’d be hard to justify him leaving anyone alive long enough for the climax. Points for getting a few car chases into the story though.

But otherwise, I enjoyed the Frankenstein inspired opening, the set up to the kills, the actual kills. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’ll think I go with the one that got him his new machete. The movie being funny without undercutting Jason’s threat level should be enough to make it a Slasher gold standard.

I actually saw it because a local theater was screening it 17 days ago. (Guess why?) and the audience was having a great time with it. I don’t blame them. Funny how a 37 year old dumb slasher movie made a more compelling argument to me the importance of movie theaters then either Avatar movie. Zing!

Black Sabbath Anthology film courtesy of Mario Bava and Boris Karloff! Nice!

The first segment: Well now I found what helped inspired Black Christmas, and in turn, Scream. It doesn’t handle the premise as terrifyingly as what came after it, but it’s nice and short.

The Second segment: Karloff playing a vampire (well, close enough to one) where he turns and breaks down his family one by one, leading to a downer ending? Works for me. Though it’s a pity the version I found dubs him over with an Italian voice actor. 

The Third segment: The corpse in this story is probably the first image that comes up when you do a google search for this movie. Moral of the story; whatever your financial woes or how good that ring looks, don’t steal from anything that looks like that!

Titane What’s really strange about this movie isn’t that our main character is a serial killer or that there’s a sentient car that knocks them up or that they spend most of the movie impersonating a man. What’s strange is that really except for the first act and the last ten minutes, this doesn’t feel like a horror movie at all. 

Most of the deaths happen early on (including one scene played for black comedy purposes) and the car doesn’t do anything beyond it’s sex scene. It doesn’t pull a Christine and come to protect it’s unborn baby. Sure, there’s body horror for the half human half machine fetus that literally tears Alexia’s body apart. But it’s surprisingly utilizes more metal then gore. Though, knowing what I could take, that’s probably a blessing. 

The rest plays almost like a wholesome LGBTIA+ drama about almost literal found family with firefighters. I guess it’s strangely nice it went this way when other movies go the more nihilistic route. Though now I want to watch more movies with firefighters all of a sudden.

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I liked the part with the wedding cake.

Alligator started out kind of slow, like it was gradually building up to be a thriller, but quickly turned into completely bonkers action. 

Once the titular alligator started busting through concrete footpaths and smashing up cars it was a fast paced fun time. The scene in which it randomly attacks a wedding held by the pharmaceutical company executive responsible for its mutation was hands down the best part of the movie.

The romance with the herpetologist felt very much tacked on, happening just by dint of her being the only woman in the script. There was some backstory about the alligator being the one she had as a kid, but they didn't actually do anything with it. Likewise, the thing with the cop being haunted by losing his original partner was brought up a few times, but added nothing to the story.

Half the deaths, particularly the cop ones, were completely needless; People were just throwing themselves into the alligator's path. At one point they just sort of crashed their speedboat into it and they definitely didn't have to do that. Another guy raced to the scene of an attack so fast that he lost control of his car and had to crawl out through the window. The avoid-ability only added to the humour when the alligator started comically chomping on people.

A bit of light-hearted, giant alligator-related fun. Good stuff.

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Alligator, 1980

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Various Scraps from My Collection