underrated

Yes, I do. I'm surprised at the strictly medium IMDb user rating. It's a really fun, lively and witty B-horror treat which benefits greatly from Lewis Teague's capable direction, John Sayles' clever tongue-in-cheek script, a cool monster, several boffo creature attack scenes, and, best of all, a terrific cast which includes Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter, Dean Jagger, and an especially fantastic turn by Henry Silva, who hilariously sends up his macho screen image as an arrogant big game hunter.

"Warren Oates died for our sins"

At one stage this was my favourite movie.

YEP i used to watch this film every week growing up it gave me a strange fixation with sewers me and my mates would always lift up man hole lids and try and get down the tunnels. lol but most in england are tiny so never made it.i mean not as good as jaws but right up there in my eyes i really like the acting two. great film ;))

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I couldn't agree more. Alligator is probably one of the last "animal horror"
films out there and it really was a good one IMO.

I remember seeing this way before I saw Jaws and to be honest, I liked this
one a bit more.

Great White sharks are scary, yes, but they can't attack you out of the water.

Our good buddy "Ramoan" can eat you pretty much anywhere. Land or water.

And I think it has some memorable scenes....

Lurking in the swimming pool then eating the kid (it's rare that movies show
little kids dying but that's what made it so damn scary)

When he's lurking in the alleys and sewers

and of course when he crashed the lavish wedding reception

as cheesy as it is, I still liked it.

I saw when I was really little and it has stayed with me ever since and
I'm 29 now, so yes these goofy ass movies can stick with you!

I hope there will a remake of this movie.t wouldbe so awsome.It would rock so hard.with all the tech today we could make one hel of a monster move.like more gore thrills exsplosions and monster chaos.It would one one hell of a movie if this movie was remade.And i hope there is a remake of carnosaur.

This is one of my all-time favorite creature features- from the atmospheric poster to the Saylesian social commentary to the batsh*t crazy Henry Silva, this is pure gold. Pray that they never remake it with terrible CGI.

My appreciation:
http://juntajuleil.blogspot.com/2009/10/film-review-alligator-1980-lew is-teague.html

I think it deserves some credit. It's a B-movie and it's got lots of nice actors and cheesy moments where you think "that's not quite right" but you go along with it anyway, and that's how it's supposed to be. Alligator deserves acclaim, even tho it's only a little compared to what other films of it's status get.

I think this movie is underrated as Hell.

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