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Sudden Impact, Australian Photo Sheet. 1983

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THE GODFATHER PART II 1974

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

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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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Tom Berenger in Fear City (Abel Ferrara, 1984)

Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Santos, Michael V. Gazzo, Jan Murray, Janet Julian, Daniel Faraldo, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ola Ray, John Foster. Screenplay: Nicholas St. John. Cinematography: James Lemmo. Production design: Vincent Joseph Cresciman. Film editing: Jack W. Holmes, Anthony Redman. Music: Dick Halligan. 

Abel Ferrara's style and ability to create an atmosphere almost manage to redeem the tawdry Fear City, but there's really no getting over the leaden familiarity of the story. Someone is mutilating and killing the dancers who work in New York City's strip clubs and the police, club owners, and managers of the women are unable to stop the carnage. Eventually, it falls to Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger), the co-owner of a talent agency that supplies the dancers, to search out the killer and deal with him. Rossi is a damaged man: an ex-boxer who killed a man in the ring and is tormented with guilt, but when the target becomes his ex-girlfriend Loretta (Melanie Griffith), he feels compelled to act. You can see from the start where the plot is going -- toward a showdown in a dark alley. It doesn't help that Rossi is at odds with the police officer in charge of the investigation, Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams), who hates Italians: "There's nothing I hate more than guineas in Cadillacs," Wheeler says, watching Rossi get in his car. Ferrara can sometimes be thuddingly obvious in exposition: We know from flashbacks what the cause of Rossi's guilt and depression is, but just in case we don't get it Ferrara needlessly inserts a scene in which we see newspaper clippings about the opponent's coma and death. More time might have been spent developing the character of the killer, who is just a figure out of a nightmare. The acting in Fear City is mediocre and there's more exploitative nudity than necessary in the dance club scenes, but the movie undeniably holds your attention. 

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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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That long lingering shot of Tom standing by the door, and that fake laugh. You can tell how devastated and hurt he is by Michael sending him away like a stray dog. Please stop being an asshole to your brother, Mike.

I already love Frank. He's such great character. Everything that was written for him though was originally intended for Clemenza but honestly I don't even really miss Clemenza here because Michael V Gazzo does such a great job.

Tom and Mama Corleone gossiping together in Sicilian makes me so happy. It's clear that she considers him to be one of the family, one of them, and not one of the "WASPS".

So much has happened in so little time and Kay might have an even better death glare than Michael does.

Michael is definitely being manipulative here when saying nice things to Tom, but I think part of him is sincere. At least I hope that's the case.

I feel like Tom has just been handed a poisoned chalice. I don't imagine him ever dreaming of being the Don and especially not now when the family is in about as much danger as it's ever been in. Talk about pressure. He already looks like he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders 2 minutes after being told that he's The Don until Michael returns.

Who killed the assassins?

30 minutes into the first movie and we were still on a wedding. 3 minutes into part 2 and we already have a murdered child.

This is a lot of effort to go to, to try to kill one little boy.

At least the neighbours helped him, unlike some. (Staring pointedly at Tom Hagen's community)

10 minutes in and I'm already emotional. Poor baby Vito. He's so alone.

That was a powerful cut between Vito orphraned and alone in quarantine and his Grandson who lives a life of luxury.

That was a great little addition in the Senator pointing the cannon at Michael.

No one does quiet anger better than Michael/Al Pacino. He barely has to do anything and he's utterly chilling.

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Character actor Michael V. Gazzo always seemed to play a junkyard owner

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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.