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Alligator (1980)

Alligator (1980) #FilmReview

Synopsis – A herpetologist (Robin Riker) helps a detective (Robert Forster) track her flushed-away pet, now a king-size mutant called Ramone. Director – Lewis Teague Starring – Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo Genre – Horror | Science Fiction Released – 1980 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. “Alligator” (1980) offers a thrilling ride through the sewers of Chicago, blending elements…

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THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.

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ALLIGATOR (1980) – Episode 241 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“Will you put that goddamn map away? Look, I gave you 78 men, you’ve got the National Guard, and he’s still loose in my city! And look at the hole he made!” Would that be a… manhole? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr – as they brave the body-strewn sewers populated by Alligator (1980).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 241 – Alligator (1980)

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A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

  Director: Lewis Teague 

Writers: John Sayles (screenplay); (story by) John Sayles, Frank Ray Perilli

Cinematographer: Joseph Mangine (director of photography)

Editing by: Larry Bock, Ron Medico (as Ronald Medico)

Special Effects Makeup: Robert Short

Special Effects:

Special effects coordinator: Richard O. Helmer

Special effects: William F. Shourt, Pete Girard, David Beasley, David Bartholomew, John Ramsey Jr. (as John Ramsey)

Gator operators: Kevin Blackton, Tom Goeken

Original alligator created by: The Stansbury Company

Miniatures: Bill Kaufman

Production Assistant/Effects Assistant: Bryan Cranston

Selected Cast:

Robert Forster as David Madison

Robin Riker as Marisa Kendall

Michael V. Gazzo as Chief Clark (as Michael Gazzo)

Dean Jagger as Slade

Sydney Lassick as Luke Gutchel (as Sidney Lassick)

Jack Carter as Mayor

Perry Lang as Officer Jim Kelly

Henry Silva as Col. Brock

Bart Braverman as Kemp

John Lisbon Wood as Mad Bomber

James Ingersoll as Scientist Arthur Helms

Robert Doyle as Bill

Patti Jerome as Madeline

Angel Tompkins as Newswoman

Sue Lyon as ABC Newswoman

Leslie Brown as Young Marisa

Buckley Norris as Bob

Royce D. Applegate as Callan

Mike Mazurki as Gatekeeper (as Michael Mazurki)

The Grue Crew chase down the classic creature feature Alligator starring Robert Forster. Writer John Sayles and director Lewis Teague turn the urban legend of flushing baby alligators, which in turn grow to sewer-dwelling alligator adults, into a full-fledged monster movie. How glorious! Silly hijinks and fun chomping ensue! What will the Grue Crew think of it?

At the time of this writing, Alligator is available for streaming from Shudder and Tubi, and asPPV from multiple sources. It is also available on physical media as Alligator – Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD] from Shout! Factory.

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Bill, will be Fear No Evil (1981), written and directed by Frank LaLoggia (Lady in White, 1988).

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"The original Godfather is a complete work, closed off and unimpeachable. The Godfather Part II, by contrast, stands as the greatest parenthesis ever put on film. By intercutting between the rise of young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) and the moral fall of his son Michael (Al Pacino), director Francis Ford Coppola amplified the meanings of his earlier film, daringly connecting the dots between the flawed hopes of immigrant America and the depraved sins of its corporate heirs.

What is most compelling about The Godfather Part II, though—besides cinematographer Gordon Willis' painterly shots—are the characters that parade across the canvas: Lee Strasberg's nerdy, ferocious Hyman Roth; Michael V. Gazzo's Pentangeli, the gravel-voiced turncoat; De Niro's Vito, taunting the whole notion of sequels by remaining as unknowable as Brando's. Two returning characters become figures of tragedy and vengeance: hapless Fredo (John Cazale), the runt in a litter of lions; and Kay (Diane Keaton), who finally understands how best to wound her unwoundable husband. Brooding over them all is Pacino's Michael, wielding power for his family's sake, then his business', then his own. Sixteen years later, Coppola would make the Lear analogy explicit in the lumpy, remorseful Godfather Part III. He didn't have to. The gutting of Michael's soul in Part II is awful enough." - Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. 

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #72: Fear City (1984) - dir. Abel Ferrara

Director Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Nicholas St. John partnered up on a dozen projects over a quarter of a century, from a 1971 short film titled Nicky’s Film to their last collaboration, the feature film The Funeral (1996). In between there were several cult classics and not-so-classics, the most famous of which are Ms .45 (1981) with Zoë Lund, King of New York (1990) with Christopher Walken, Dangerous Game (1993) with Harvey Keitel and Madonna and The Addiction (1995) with Lili Taylor and Walken. Amidst these gritty tales of violence on the mean streets of NYC is Fear City, a lurid thriller that debuted overseas in the summer of 1984 before being released stateside in February 1985.

Like another sleazoid from that era, Brian De Palma, Abel Ferrara loved mixing eroticism and violence in spectacles that came off like Hitchcock minus the taste level. While I would be hard-pressed to describe Ferrara’s cinematic attitudes toward sex as “sexy,” in Fear City he certainly reveled in every gruesome approach to bloodshed. The plot has a pretty standard setup - a serial killer is on the loose, slasher horror ensues - but it is nonetheless enjoyable to see Times Square at the tail end of its grimy heyday, awash in neon lights advertising porn flicks and strip joints. The fact that the murderer is obsessed with strippers (played by Melanie Griffith, Rae Dawn Chong, Janet Julian, Maria Conchita Alonso and Ola Ray, among others) makes the film a guessing game as to which victims will die and which will live to tell the tale. Similar territory was covered in the noir-ish drama Screaming Mimi (1958) starring Anita Ekberg and Gypsy Rose Lee.

The protagonist, if he can be called that, is strip club owner Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger). He has a form of PTSD from his past as a boxer, a career that ended when a bout turned lethal and he accidentally killed his opponent in the ring. At the same time that Matt makes it his mission to track down the killer, he is targeted himself by Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams), a homicide detective who used to work in the vice squad and has been disgusted by Matt and his ilk ever since. With each successive attack, the anxiety experienced by New Yorkers, the police, Matt, his colleagues and the women who work for them is amplified until the perp is finally apprehended.

Ferrara really leans into his particular style, committing so thoroughly to his tastelessness that it’s tantamount to art. Fear City is not as smoothly designed as De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and Body Double, but Tom Berenger’s performance is decent and I was amused by Michael V. Gazzo and Rossano Brazzi as a harried club manager and a wealthy benefactor, respectively. Although Fear City doesn’t hold up as well as Ms .45, King of New York or Ferrara’s most famous work, Bad Lieutenant, at least cinematographer James Lemmo - also the DP on Ms .45, Vigilante, Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2 - adds visual flair with those aforementioned touches of neon, so even as the drama veers into ridiculousness, it’s always aesthetically appealing.