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Released
1980 · FILM

Alligator

A determined police officer teams up with a reluctant reptile expert to hunt down a massive, hormone‑grown alligator unleashed from the sewers before it devours an entire city.

It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds...And it's about to break out!

Directed by
Runtime
91 min
HorrorSci-FiThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Larry BockShot by Joseph MangineScored by Craig Huxley

Box Office

1980 · Box office

Produced on a $1.5M budget

Production budget

$1.5M

Also known as

  • Der Horror-Alligatorde
  • Der Killer-Alligatorde
  • La bestia bajo el asfaltoes

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