Little credit I noticed on the cast list for the film that I think deserves some attention. #monsterdon

Ronald Reagan was a terrible president who fucked up the country on a generational scale, but the more we watch these 70s (and adjacent) movies where everyone is just kind of horrible and sleazy, the more I can understand how he got elected.

#monsterdon

Yeah the casket was LESS THAN A FOOT LONG

HAhahahaha

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

When all you have is a stick of dynamite every problem looks like an alligator

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Funny that the scientist lady never learned it was her gater.

When we met the mom, I was sure she was going to say something.

Or scientist lady would notice a marking or something.

Weird that she had that connection to the monster and it didn't matter at all.

#monsterdon Hah, this happened in C.H.U.D. too,

Surprisingly good creature effects this week, even if everything else was pretty standard late-70s schlock. Sadly Ramon did not live to fuck off into the swamps.

Goodnight #monsterdon, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, I'm gonna make some dinner and then... maybe watch some more Millennium?

I'm not saying this was a good movie, but it was a million times better than that Vampires of Bikini Beach movie.
#monsterdon

RAWR! Baby gator will be back!

That was an actual fun movie! It had a plot, three well defined acts, pacing, people who could act, made more or less some sense, and I really enjoyed the gator!

Thanks for organizing @Taweret and thanks everyone for joining! See you later?

#monsterdon #alligator1980

YES guy through the wedding cake!!!!!!

This is almost as good as the music video for November Rain

#Monsterdon

"Well, we got him."

"We sure did."

*camera pans to another baby alligator in the sewer*

And that's a wreck! Ramon was abandoned, poisoned by an evil chemical company, *hand-waves* ate some folks, then was tragically dynamited to smitheroons by an ex-cop and so never got to fuck off into the sea. The end.

Thanks for hosting, @Taweret ! Glad we got a documentary into the lineup for once and learned where those sewer-gator rumours all got their start.

Good night!

#monsterdon

That was FUN! I mean obviously it was terrible, but it was also FUN!

They need a sequel where these two have a kid and the kid grows up and has to fight a giant iguana

And then that person finds love, and the next generation has to fight a giant python

You see where I'm going

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

I can't believe all those people left without saying "See ya later, alligator!"

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

@apLundell #monsterdon

I thought there'd be a face-to-face moment like: "Ramon! It's ME! Remember? REMEMBER?!?"

How long until someone falls off a - there we go

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Actually I like that this time the science lady gets to be condescending to a man

#Monsterdon

I like how he flicks the button on, you know, to test whether it's a bomb or a radio

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

*vibrating with a need for all these characters to have their faces eaten*

#monsterdon

Well, that was that. Now, off to sleep in a sewer. Good night everyone

#Monsterdon

RAMON DID NOTHING WRONG #Monsterdon

bingo! #monsterdon

ACAB (All Cops Are Breakfast)

#monsterdon

in the sewers, banging pots and pans to honour health workers during covid

#monsterdon

1980s kid here. I've got news for you: The picture on a TV set like this was never that kind of clear.
#monsterdon

Seriously, giant maps, we need more giant maps

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

#monsterdon This Alligator is my emotional support megafauna buddy. I love him. I want him to eat the entire city, just line up, accept your fate. Empty the entire city.

They redshirted Kelly pretty damn quick

#Monsterdon

Whew, flashlight technology sure has come a long way since the 80s

#monsterdon

This absolutely needed to be played during the closing credits:

#Monsterdon #Alligator

https://youtu.be/Wh3t49NsWBA?si=90vMq_lejxIuKpuj

Turns out, screaming rich people being eaten and killed is a happy place. #monsterdon

"We know exactly where to find him"

yeah the one sewer filming location you have

#Monsterdon

The wedding reception scene reminds me of Monty Python’s “Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Salad Days’”

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

We got GATORSIGN!

Be sure to walk arrhythmically to avoid detection.

#Monsterdon

In 2025 a giant gator terrorizing a city would barely make the features section of a paper but this whole place is freakin out.

#Monsterdon

One of the great things about sewers is you can Just Not Go There

#Monsterdon

This lady is the entire reason for HIPPA #monsterdon

Oh, the days before HIPAA

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

1980 truly was the golden age of fierce eyebrows

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Y'know the producer did say the film was supposed to be a comedy. I can buy that the radio bomber was supposed to be a joke.

Ain't funny, but the *intent* was there, anyway. #Monsterdon

One day we're gonna have a movie where the entire cast *isn't* assholes. #Monsterdon

Reporter is a bit of a discount Carl Sagan

#Monsterdon

@trixter That "mass lead poisoning from gas exhaust" theory gets more and more plausible with every film. #Monsterdon

I want ominous music to play whenever someone mentions my name! Where do I sign up for that!?

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

@_L1vY_ once the giddiness of the adventure has passed she's going to realise she's dating a Cop, and fuck that idea!

#Monsterdon

Anyway, great being back at #monsterdon even for a sewer movie. I'm hoping to show up more in weeks to come as the sketch season winds down.

Now it's on wheels! 😂

Why are so many people just randomly flying through the air? Also this creature is terrible at chewing, it's just sort of vaguely compressing its victims. 😂

I think that screaming is on a loop.

#Monsterdon

Thanks everyone for flushing out some great jokes!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! :D

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

lol

the old "car parked over the sewer access hatch cover" bit

straight out of C.H.U.D.

#monsterdon

Gator is still pissed about the garbage can lid cymbals

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Every single "romantic" scene in this film should have been replaced with Ramon

I would even accept scenes of Ramon trying to attract an alligator bride. That would even line up nicely with some of the earlier scenes.

Oh except we can't have nice things like that, instead we get troops in power boats firing automatic weapons at floating logs. Ope, and here come the grenades Surely a boat jump and an explosion can't be far be... yep there it is

#monsterdon

I bet there are some yummy puppy murderers to eat around here somewhere

#Monsterdon

That smirk... Is the herpetologist working with Ramon? Is she a HERPETRAITOR? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon

Looks like Kemp's back on the menu, boys

#Monsterdon

"bring me pictures of spider-man!"

#monsterdon

"Could this be a tooth?"

"Yeah, it could be a lot of things, Mulder." #Monsterdon

I had to get up from my desk for a few minutes but I had my headphones on and I assume Kelly is gator chow?

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Nice how they have little waterfalls down there to improve the ambiance

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

This movie has a surprising amount of banter about Midwestern cities

#Monsterdon

"It's all very carefully regulated," said the Neurolink researcher. #Monsterdon

Here’s a helpful guide so you know the difference between a crocodile, an alligator, caiman, etc.

#alligator1980 #monsterdon

I do hope the angry parents who just flushed baby alligator Ramon down the toilet while their daughter was at school get eaten in the third act, though I would settle for the second.

#JusticeForRamon #monsterdon

A doubtless not-original observation: #monsterdon is a very experience weird when you have no idea what the movie is.

@RobynGoodfellow ABSO

FUCKING

LUTELY

however this would've required a lot more sense of humour than this film actually had

#monsterdon #alligator1980

That was dumb, and the pet abuse was distressing, but an otherwise enjoyably coherent #monsterdon.

Glad some rich people got eated. Though Ramon should have passed on the help.

Thanks for the company everyone. And as always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Till next time!

#monsterdon Bart Braverman?

Next time get the Bravest man!

I like how his male pattern baldness is the running gag in this movie.

#Monsterdon

Nothing says closure like a crotch shot

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon🐊 🐊 🐊 💩 🩸 😱

you don't need a giant digital number display on a pack of dynamite

A lot of cops die in this movie. Truly ahead of its time
#monsterdon #alligator1980

Turns out that car's trunk was FULL of strawberry jam.

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I would take a part as an extra getting eaten by an alligator, where do I sign up

#Monsterdon

@amyfou #monsterdon

He laughed at her mom's jokes. That counts for a lot.

This film's gonna end like Grizzly, the alligator's gonna explode nuke-style. #Monsterdon

@pngwen lol, you can see her eyes rolling as he goes on.... #Monsterdon

OH MY GOD JUST STOP GOING INTO THE SEWER

#Monsterdon

(Real talk for just a second: every time we watch a movie from the 80s or 90s that features any kind of tunnel, underground, or nighttime scene I am reminded anew of just how far flashlights have come in the last 10-15 years, between LEDs and the power density of lithium ion batteries. It is truly amazing.)

#monsterdon

Can we just have a round of applause for the sewage workers in every city, keeping our shit going!

👏

#Monsterdon

That extended car scene between the Chief and Madison in the car there reminds me...

*books a haircut*

*very deliberately adds "even up eyebrows" in the Comments & Instructions field, underlined twice*

#monsterdon

Standing in the hospital, smoking, as one does.

#Monsterdon

"It'll take a lotta guys but we can flush it out!"

We'll stuff so many cops into the beast's gullet that it chokes! We'll give it food poisoning with raw pork! Come on, chief! #Monsterdon

Awww, well the towhead is definitely going to be the alligator's first taste of law enforcement

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

I'm at the sewage system

I'm at the drainage system

I'm at the combination sewage/drainage system

#Monsterdon

"This looks exactly like Taffy - same markings, same everything - she's just way too large."

"Two months ago, this sweater" (holds up a red knitted dog sweater the size of a sheet or two of paper) "fit this dog?" (points at a death shroud covering a dog the size of a wolfhound)

"Uh huh"

omg giant dog
is this silly movie going to reveal Odin's origin story

#monsterdon

I feel like the parents would have needed a *little* more convincing in the immediate aftermath of the bloody mauling

#Monsterdon

FYI for any Monsterdonians who subscribe to Shudder: they have Alligator & Alligator 2.

#Monsterdon #Shudder

I just went looking through my #monsterdon threads for when we watched THEM! (1954). I found my post string but it was pretty threadbare¹.

However I also discovered that all of these monsterdon classics were from 1954:

- THEM!
- Devil Girl From Mars
- Stranger From Venus
- Creature From The Black Lagoon
- Godzilla

Hell of a year for classic schlock cinema, eh??

¹: https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/113422191978556864

#monsterdon post scriptum:

Chat, in tonight's cinematic presentation I had the opportunity to crack a joke about our gruff rogue cop alligator hunter protagonist Madison / "Madisynn with two N's and a Y, but not where you thi-i-ink!"¹. I flubbed it.

The error was mine alone. I have no explanation or excuse. All I can offer is my heartfelt apology and a sincere commitment to doing better in the future in the hope of regaining your shaken trust.

¹: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Madisynn_King

I'm a little disappointed it's a newly flushed baby gator, instead of a clutch of eggs.

#Monsterdon

Anyway, I guess that concludes my #monsterdon thread for Alligator, and until next time, um, remember to be nice to animals.

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting another monster movie a thon!

Alligator 2: The Mutation 1991 looks like trash!

#monsterdon #Alligator2TheMutation1991

I give Alligator 2 out of 5 giant growth hormone alligators. I was bored, but not as bored as I could have been, considering that the movie was two hours long.

The best character was the alligator puppet, which looked cool. At least I think it was a puppet and not a real mutant alligator. The worst character was a tie between half of all of the other characters. Most inhabitants of this movie could be described as "grumpy and also mildly and/or majorly a jerk".

#monsterdon

@Taweret Thanks for hosting as usual! fun film...

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#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 good times everybody. catch ya next week

big thanks to our host @Taweret for organizing <3 <3 <3

Okay, that's just silly

#monsterdon

Look if you won't eat the rich at least let the gator do it. #monsterdon

That superfluous boat explosion 😂

#Monsterdon

Surprisingly short credits, thank you oh merciful one #Monsterdon

Casios save lives (one hopes)

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

And the movie ends as it began

Imprisoned in the sewer. #Monsterdon