EPISODE · Jul 25, 2026 · 59 MIN
It's Not Even Named Lake Placid: Alligator and Lake Placid
from Chopping It Up · host choppingituphorrorpod
A sewer gator raised on hormone-jacked lab dogs takes on a CGI crocodile that cost six times as much and looks half as real. The crew pits 1980's scrappy, John Sayles-penned Alligator against 1999's big-budget, Stan Winston-adjacent Lake Placid — practical effects vs. CGI, indictment of big pharma vs. crazy old lady feeding cows to a lizard, and a fight over crocodile biology the movie's own screenwriters apparently lost. Also: why is the lake in Lake Placid not named Lake Placid? Nobody in this movie can answer that, but we sure try.
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