Tag Line : Eats turtles for breakfast!

Some 11 years after the original Alligator, someone decided to make this extremely pointless and disappointingly poor sequel with virtually nothing in common with its predecessor, apart from a big alligator.

This time we see the films titular giant reptile on the loose in some lake in some American city of indeterminate origin. This particular giant gator has grown to such enormous proportions after some chemical company started dumping toxic sludge down the drains.

Detective Hodges (Joseph Bologna) is the cop who's been investigating the recent spate of disappearances in the area, only to discover what the real cause is. But unfortunately the plot doesn't really go much beyond that. Most of the film seems to be centred around some ruthless property developer trying to buy up all the homes in the area, and not much about the alligator killing people.

Things do get better near the end when the property developer and the mayor are throwing a party by the lake, only to get it gate crashed by the giant alligator (finally making an appearance) which goes onto run amok and start chomping on the partygoers.

Screen baddie Richard Lynch turns up as the "Captain Ahab" style leader of group of hunters, attempting to help Hodges track down and kill the beast, and Dee Wallace Stone puts in a brief appearance as Hodges wife Christine. Overall, this is a VERY poor sequel, with the alligator not really turning up until the final 25 mins or so. Too much time is wasted on the sub plot about the shenanigans of the property developer and not enough time spent showing people getting eaten.

Overall Marks : 3/10.

Other Information.

• Alternate tag line "It crashed out of the sewers, now there's hell to pay".

• Dee Wallace Stone also appeared in "The Howling and "Hills have Eyes", as well as playing Elliot's mother in "ET-The Extra Terrestrial".

• Director John Hess also directed the 1998 film "Watchers".

• Character actor Richard Lynch also appeared in "Scanner Cop", Ruggerro Deodato's "Cut & Run" and was also one of the bikers during the end fight in "Ninth Configuration".

• The mayor was played by Bill Daily, who is undoubtedly well remembered for his role of Major Healey in the 1965 comedy show "Bewitched".

• Brock Peters played Admiral Cartwright in "Star Trek 4 : The Voyage Home" and "Star Trek 6 : The Undiscovered Country" as well as played captain Sisko's father Joseph in "Star Trek : Deep Space 9".

• B-movie actor Steven Railsback, who plays property tycoon Vincent Brown, also played the lead role in the cult film "Turkey Shoot" (aka Blood Camp Thatcher). His other notable roles include the films "Lifeforce", "Disturbing Behaviour" and more recently "Devil's Reject's". He also played Ed in the docu-drama film "Ed Gein".

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