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Rank Every Croc Movie!


I'm a huge fan of monster movies and below are all the croc movies i've seen or know about.

Please let me know if there are any out there I don't know and rank the ones you've seen.

This is just a listing. not my ranking.

1) Primeval. This is the one with the film crew going to Africa. They run into trouble with a local mafia group as well as a giant dinosaur, i mean Crocodile named Gustave.

2) Lake Placid. This is the more comedic theatrical release from the late 90s with Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and of course, the hysterical Betty White. They go after some big croc who's wreaking havoc in a lake.

3) Lake Placid 2. This is a Sci-Fi channel Original that was set up similarly to the first just with different actors, a more hungry crocodile, and special effects that make your jaw drop.

4) Crocodile. This one was about the 8 drunk college students who go sailing in a swampy area. They are wild and make mistakes which lead them into the path of a giant crocodile who chases and eats them one by one.

5) Crocodile 2 "Death Roll". This is the one where the plane crashes that's carrying a band of bad guys with guns and motives. They're stranded in a swamp being chased by a crocodile while one of the flight attendant's husband is eagerly trying to find her and the rest of the survivors.

6) Dark Water. This is similar to Rogue only a *smaller* group of tourists go out on a boat in the swamp and are attacked by a crocodile. The movie's most known for the fact that the cast spends most of the movie in a tree, but don't judge it on that alone.

7) Croc. This was a more light-hearted low budget croc movie which was about this guy who owned a croc zoo, so to speak. He struggles to keep the croc zoo open after some evil prospectors want to take his land. A bigger croc is on the loose and the main character gets blamed for the crocodile-caused deaths of some locals.

8. Blood Surf. This movie starts out letting you think it's a shark movie. But the sharks are no match for the GIANT rubber crocodile that chases people (as expected). The characters were filming dudes surfing with sharks until they encounter the croc and he chases them into more trouble with the natives and such. This movie may best be known for the two lead male characters always being wet and shirtless for most of the movie.

9. SuperGator. This was another SciFi channel original about experiments I believe that made a super gator. The gator crashed a big luau and there was also a volcano i think. A clip from this movie was screened on The Soup, so you know what that means.

10. DinoCroc. Another movie about scientific experiments or some bio accident gone wrong that creates a super beast. Unfortunately, I don't remember much more. But I believe this movie was based on a book-how exquisite! (i bet the book was better).

11. Rogue. Group of tourists venture through Australias norther territory where they are attacked by a rogue crocodile. They get stranded and fight to find a way out.

12. SuperCroc. This was about a giant crocodile that was discovered approaching los Angeles, so a bunch of guys in rented military costumes run around someones backyard in California firing guns at it for 50 minutes. Really this shouldn't be compared to any on this list. This "movie" was more of a project some college students made for a film class while high on weed.

13. Alligator. This was perhaps the first, and alligator/crocodile = tomato/tomauto. I haven't seen it but it's about an alligator that rises from the sewers and terrorizes city dwellers. Might sound interesting and original in theory but since its from the 80's my A.D.D. youthfulness would not be able to handle it - i'm sure.

14. Alligator 2 The mutation. The sequel to the above which is another I haven't seen but am aware of. It's probably not as good as Alligator 1 (hunch).

15. Crocodile Dundee. haha just kidding.



My ranking:
1. Crocodile 2 - personal favorite
2. Lake Placid
3. Primeval
4. Rogue
5. Black Water
6. Crocodile
7. Blood Surf
8. Croc
9. Supergator

haven't seen/don't remember
10. DinoCroc
11. Alligator
12. Alligator 2

13. Lake Placid 2. i haven't even seen the 3 above but there's no way they can be worse.
14. SuperCroc. if you think LP2 was the worst croc movie ever made you were way wrong. SuperCroc can only be watched while holding the fastforward button, or if you see this on tv it's impossible to watch unless you're bound to your chair with your eyelids pried open.


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1. Rogue (it's the Jaws of the crocodile movies)
2. Black Water (smaller scale, but more horror)
3. Alligator (the first decent croc movie)

4... The rest (Primeval, Lake Placid, Crocodile, Killer Crocodile, etc.), mostly just crap.

One movie I haven't seen is Dark Age. This could make it to top 3, given that it's an Australian movie.

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1. Rogue- a more straight forward experience in terror and extremely well done for this particular type of monster movie.
2. Primeval- I also really favor this one despite the hate it garners. I like how the human story kind of distracts you from the crocodile... then BAM! the croc reminds you it's still there and the main point of the movie.
3. Lake Placid- This is a fun film, it kind of reminded me of "Tremors" in how well it balanced the horror and the comedy and kept things light while tense.
4. Black Water- Someone said this is the croc answer to "Open Water". I haven't seen that film all the way through but I'll agree with that from what I've seen while also comparing it to the situation and interpersonal terror presented in "Cujo".

The rest aren't on the same level granted, but I own several of them (as well as the ones listed above) and still find the shtick value in them. Nothing serious nor are they meant to be.

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I cannot possibly ever take seriously anyone that would list Primeval over Rogue.

It's like ranking Transformers over Citizen Kane.

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Black Water: the cast spends most of the movie in a tree, but don't judge it on that alone.


That's because its based on the real life attack that happened in the Northern Territories in 2003. One person was actually eaten below overnight by the Croc, whilst the others hid up the tree for 20+ hours. Scary stuff, I really can't imagine what that was like, and thats coming from someone who's worked with (albeit smaller) Crocs.

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Lol Alligator 1 and 2 shouldn't be on there since they're two different animals.

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Here are the various crocagator movies I've seen followed by my comments:

"Crocodile" is one of the most entertaining, although it's not scary at all since it's too tongue-in-cheek.

"Croc" is quite good, one of my favorites.

"Black Water" was, by far, the most realistic crocogator flick I've ever seen and parts of it were definitely horrifying, but most viewers would think it's too sssllloooowww.

"Rogue" is pretty realistic, but not as much as "Black Water."

I actually kinda liked "Lake Placid 2," and "3" was decent, but both were tongue-in-cheek like "Crocodile," so you can only take them so seriously.

The original "Lake Placid" is meh; it's just too goofy.

"Blood Surf" has the fakest looking croc and the wackiest storyline, not that it's good, but it tries hard to entertain.

"Alligator" has Robin Riker, not much more.

"The Great Alligator River" was pretty good, filmed in Sri Lanka.

"Carnivorous" (or "Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent") takes place in the Lousianna cane fields and I liked it, although most don't.

"Dinocroc" was an okay goofy Syfy flick with quality babes.

I've never seen "Primeval."


My 150 (or so) favorite movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122364/

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Good list. Lol, although I thought your initial list of croc/alligator films was your ranking and I thought you ranked Lake Placid 2 at number three. I thought, clearly this person is insane if they thought LP2 was good!
Now I have some movies to watch, but LP2 will not be one of them ;)

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1. lake placid
2. rogue
3. black water
4. alligator
5. primeval

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