 
A
little girl named Marissa Kendall adopts
a baby alligator but her father flushes
it down the toilet and it lands in a
sewage system.
Years later the alligator is living in
the sewage system and is becoming
gigantic living off of corpses of
laboratory animals who have
undergone dubious hormone experiments.
Eventually the alligator feasts on people
there and a detective named David Madison
(Robert Forster) and a deputy go into the
sewer to check things out and take
pictures of the alligator. The deputy is
caught and slasughtered by the alligator
but the people at the police station
can't believe their eyes when they see
the pictures of it's enormous size.
The police headquarters go into the
sewers with guns to try and flush the
alligator out and Marissa (Robin Riker)
is now older and helps out with this
issue.
The alligator eventually terrorises the
small town eating people and biting their
legs off plus the alligator also
terrorises a neighborhood to top it all
off. It is up to David and Marissa to put
a stop to this bloodthirsty monster.
This was a great
flick but nowadays it looks very cheesy
but at the time I saw it on TV I was
terrified of horror films so it scared
me. It is still a bit scary of the fact
that an alligator is living in a sewer
and sneaking up on it's prey.
A great storyline too as it tried to
carry on the tradition of Jaws
and Pirahna (Which
writer Sayles did the story for) even if
it didn't become as much of a success.
Some categorised this as a comedy horror
but I never saw the comedy in it at all.
The acting is very
well done. I enjoyed Robert Forster
as a tough cop trying to flush out the
alligator.
Robin Riker is also a natural
character actress and plays a great
reporter.
The others did a fine job too.
I enjoyed the special appearace by former
child actor Pat Peterson's role
as Joey since he was good playing a
typical kid.
Jack Carter who played the mayor
didn't do too well with his acting career
during the late 80's as he accpeted roles
in various trashy direct-to-video dud's
but later on got his acting career back
on track in the movie Play it to
the Bone.
Many gory scenes
in this one as it was also shown on TV
too when my TV station was playing a
movie but of course it advised viewer
discretion.
Many people legs were bitten off and it
was graphic plus the alligator was eating
people alive.
The directing is
also well done for a film during this
time as Lewis Teague knew how do
deliver a scare with the alligator
waiting in the sewers for it's next prey.
I also loved his work with the alligator
terrorising people in the town and
crashing up from the sewers into the
street.
His direction between Forster and
Riker was fantastic as he made them
have great chemistry with their
characters.
There's a nice camera shot of the
alligator smashing up onto the street
from the sewer too as well as people
being chomped away at a wedding party as
the reactions from everyone was a
classic.
Teague has also directed other
movies as well as TV episodes.
The original music for this
film was composed by Craig Hundley
who was terrific with it and made it
sound extremely scary.
Nowadays, it sounds a little cheesy but
it is still effective especially for the
scenes in the sewers.
He also composed music for the films Roadie,
Schizoid, Olivia,
Boogeyman 2 and Programmed
to Kill. He also pursued a bit
of acting by having small guest roles in
TV shows.
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