John sayles, who wrote the script for alligator, also created the screenplay for piranha two years. Despite such an amazing cast and beautiful cinematography, the movie yet turned out to be a huge failure in the boxoffice. With the help of over 7,000 of the worlds best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, featured multimedia factfiles for more than 16,000 endangered species. Trailing the animal attack genre of the 1970s, witty dialogue, constant action, and great character actors keep alligator afloat to the very end. Alligator, along with films such as grizzly 1976, orca 1977 and piranha 1978, is considered by some to be a ripoff film made to capitalize on the success of the film jaws 1975, whose main antagonist is a maneating great white shark. And make no mistake, the great alligator is more of an actionexploitation film than it. An alligator s brain weighs only 8 or 9 grams and would take up only onehalf of a tablespoon. Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stal. The great alligator 1979 directed by sergio martino. Alligator is a 1980 american horror film, directed by lewis teague with a screenplay by john sayles. Wildscreen s arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the worlds biggest encyclopaedia of life on earth. The great alligator made its inevitable leap to bluray in 2017 from code red, sold via ronin flix. Said resort features the tossing of squealing piglets in the water to entice crocodiles, among other activities.
For a while it seemed that every toughguy animal actor who owned a bathing suit had landed an agent. Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a. This great thrill flick with ample crocodile effects is based on a true story. If its hungry, an alligator will eat anything that moves. This lack of brain power means there is no such thing as a nice alligator. Jaws, while far more successful of a film, never got this provocative with its social commentary. Barbara bach black belly of the tarantula, the unseen is his assistant, alice brandt. Alligator is fun monster horror flick about a killer alligator that terrorizes a town. Gobble, gobble, gobble, munch, munch, jingle, jangle, scrunch, scrunch, crunch. The new hd transfer looks pretty solid, with strong colors, a natural fine film grain appearance, and deep blacks.
The film is notable for being among the first of the slew. Id seen the great alligator several times before i realized that. The acting and action in most scenes were authentic and well staged. Alligator 1980 is really worth the money spent to view and keep in your monster movie collection. The list contains the best, new and most relevant alligator movies ordered by relevance. The great alligator 1979, barbara bach horror movie. At the same time, slade laboratories was conducting secret hormonal experiments with dogs and the dead dogs were disposed of in the city sewer. These early scenes in the movie are probably the best, because they work on the dumb fundamental level where were all afraid of being eaten by an alligator in a sewer. Show me a man who is not afraid of being eaten by an alligator in a sewer, and ill show you a. Here comes the great alligator, a bloodsoaked tale of jungle greed and just desserts from cult director sergio martino torso. The american alligator is a rare success story of an endangered animal not only saved from extinction but now thriving. Il fiume del grande caimano, alligator, alligators description. As the baby alligator fed on the dead dogs, its body chemistry took on grotesque mutations.
The gator in this film is the most realistic creature model i have ever seen, and the most terrifying. With barbara bach, claudio cassinelli, mel ferrer, romano puppo. The great alligator 1979 nude scenes film utterly fails to make the footage of a real gator on miniature sets look like anything but exactly that, when the original film was largely able to pull off the same effects way betterand he sets the timer for 20 seconds and climbs up out of the hole. Soon after he switched to exploitation with films like the great alligator, 2019. Barbara bach and claudio cassinelli head into the steamy jungles of southeast asia where construction for an exclusive resort is treadi.
Forster gives a classic performance in this 80s scifi horror romp alligator dvd. If you enjoy good old fashioned cheesy monster films. Worldwide 1979 a tourist resort in africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge maneating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of. The alligator dvd 1980 release looks great and is a bargain with all the bonus material included.
It stars robert forster, robin riker, and michael v. Alligator dvd 1980 is a terrific b monster movie from the 80s. The great alligator river, originally il fiume del grande caimano and also known as alligators, caiman, big alligator river and the big caimano river, is a 1979 italian adventure film directed by sergio martino filming took place during the summer of 1979 in sri lanka and italy, and began on 3 june. As with every boxoffice success, jaws spawned a cycle of ripoffs. Giant mutant alligator attacks birthdays, stickball players and police officers in this 80s throwback. Would have been sergio martinos best film if not for 2019 after the fall of new york. The great alligator 1979 tourists barbara bach, claudio cassinelli flee from a tribally significant alligator at an entrepreneurs mel ferrer african resort. State and federal protections, habitat preservation efforts, and reduced. For that matter, even the natives are a poor mans savage tribe. On the other hand, alligators can be quite dangerous. The reason for this being that the film goes to great lengths to tell you its titular menace is an alligator, despite the fact that it could not be more obviously a goddamn crocodile and theres no reason to pretend otherwise except to vex me. Thats the sound of whitebred greed and privilege getting eaten and this bad bitch. Great cast too, with small parts played by bobby rhodes, richard johnson, and romano puppo. Added to this, modest outbursts of gore, building on the bloodier moments of jaws 1975, makes this latterday bmovie very watchable for genre fans today.
If its crocodile movies you love, rogue is definitely you dont want to miss out. The film lays it on rather thick with the adam and eve theme, from the gaudy resort art direction designed by antonello. It is restricted to notable crocodilian characters from notable works of fiction. Characters that appear in multiple media may have separate listings for. The film was followed by a 1991 unrelated sequel alligator ii. Both films are cult genius thanks to their writer, one john sayles, who went on to become an indie film auteur as well as a writer of great american novels. The mutation the following weapons were used in the film alligator 1980. Robert forster is great as the cop in alligator 1980 dvd. After the fall of new york, island of the fishmen, mountain of the cannibal god, etc. Both films both have similar plots, and both are satires, but alligators teeth sink a little deeper. The great alligator, aka the big alligator river, directed.
Alligator is a 1980 horror film directed by lewis teague. Alligator is a 1981 horrorcomedy film, directed by lewis teague and starring robert forster, robin riker, and henry silva, with a screenplay by john sayles, in which chicago policeman david madison has to stop ramon, the eponymous beast, who is running amok in the city sewer system after feeding on covertly discarded growth hormone. Stelvio cipriani il fiume del grande caimano the great. Alligator 1 alligator 2 dvd, 2010, 2disc set for sale. Barbara bach, claudio cassinelli, mel ferrer, romano puppo, lory del santo, fabrizia castagnoli, richard johnson, silvia. Released 1979, the great alligator stars barbara bach, mel ferrer, claudio cassinelli, richard johnson the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 29 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Barbara bach, mel ferrer, richard johnson, claudio cassinelli, romano puppo. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile. The kendal family decided their pet baby alligator was a nuisance and flushed him down the toilet. This is a very good film that is pretty underrated. The great alligator 1979, stars mel ferer as island resort owner joshua.
This is a list of fictional crocodiles and alligators from literature, folklore and myth, mascots and emblems of teams and organizations, comics, films, animations and video games this list is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Its with a bit more political bite than expected that the great alligator lands in this bmovie fanatics code red collection. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough and humorous films and tv shows about with alligator, danger, swamp, deadly, escapades, death, murder, boat, blood and violence plots mostly in horror, thriller and comedy genres shot in usa, canada, serbia and other. List of fictional crocodiles and alligators wikipedia.
The alligator is great looking and the death scenes are done with great skill and panache. The body count is high, but the gore is almost suggested, as in psycho where you saw blood, but no cutting. A tourist resort in africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge maneating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. Alligator 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.