EPISODE · Sep 5, 2025 · 37 MIN
Episode 10: Alligator (1980) and Alligator II: The Mutation (1991), and also Crawl (2019)
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A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.Horror movies can be about a lot of things - grief, loneliness, change, the unknown - but sometimes, horror is about a scary thing being REALLY, REALLY BIG. Alligator is a movie that says "the alligator is very scary in its natural habitat, so let's take it out of that habitat and have it just sort of gingerly waddle around a scale model of a city". It's a movie with 3/5ths of an alligator puppet, a lead actor with a rapidly receding hairline, and a really very bad sequel. We also talk briefly about Crawl, which was actually decently scary, if you're scared of alligators, which Katie, unfortunately, is. Support the show
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A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu. Horror movies can be about a lot of things - grief, loneliness, change, the unknown - but sometimes, horror is about a scary thing being REALLY, REALLY BIG. Alligator is a movie that says "the alligator is very scary in its natural habitat, so let's take it...
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Episode 10: Alligator (1980) and Alligator II: The Mutation (1991), and also Crawl (2019)
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