It counts as a retreat even if it has someone in its mouth

#Bingo
#monsterdon
#Alligator

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 shoulda gone in for that locker room crap

"You just popped out of a manhole on Campbell street and started screaming the title of the movie!"

#Monsterdon

...how do you let a guy sneak up on you in a flooded sewer

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

@brooke

Just havin’ sewer fun with the boys

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Alligators can actually sprint very quickly if they want to.

#AlligatorFacts

#Monsterdon

Tail smash! Whip it! :godzilla_cool:

#MONSTERDON

"Get you home for dinner…" or maybe you'll BE dinner.

#monsterdon

@floatybirb Will you please continue to keep track of the characters and their moral alignments so we don't get confused.

#monsterdon

OK, the rule is you can't play the music if Ramon isn't actually there.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 just some innocent man-to-man grab-ass

That's harassment, Kelley.

#Monsterdon

Hey don't drop bricks on Ramon, he was having a nice nap. That's rude.

#monsterdon

@gnomon I mean, I didn't *bellow*, because I had a mouthful of Junior Mints

#Monsterdon

All Cops Are Breakfast

#Monsterdon

Clearly the Kool-Aid man has been down there.

#Monsterdon #Alligator

@allanb

I think the family were on a trip to Florida, kid brought baby gator back to Chicago. Once home, they were talking about the Democratic Convention of 68 causing trouble in town

#Monsterdon

In an attempt to make this movie interesting that I hope succeeds, we go into Dungeon Mode and the detective and blonde cop go into the sewers to solve the mystery. They encounter a dead end that is bricked up and then press "M" to reveal the sewer map.

#monsterdon

@hollie lol my thoughts exactly

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

That's a really big seven segment display. #monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

    🐊🩸 TRIVIAGATOR 🩸🐊

The actor who plays Detective David Madison, Robert Forster, improvised a line about his receding hairline and scriptwriter John Sayles thought it was great and wrote in more.

Sayles was looking for humor because test audiences burst out laughing when they saw the gator. He knew it had to be a comedy.

#Alligator1980

Stop fashion-shaming the detective, you meanies!

#Monsterdon

@apLundell #monsterdon #tubi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Chekov's Cop's Dead Partner #monsterdon

@apLundell@timeloop.cafe Alligators have the right number of eyelids. Not their fault if you're deficient!

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

I have to watch a lot of law enforcement pressers for my jobs and this is actually way more information than you usually get. #monsterdon

“We cut the larynx out when they first come in.”

WTF?! I want to cut the doctor’s larynx.

#Monsterdon

This man isn't even the fun kind of Evil Scientist

#Monsterdon

@apLundell Yeah. Nictitating membranes, ike birds.

#monsterdon #alligator1980

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  ⏲️ 30-MINUTE POLL 👾

The original script was scrapped because it was

"Thank you sir, I'll just go back to my desk and wait to be assassinated by your goons." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 TEAM GATOR. KILL THEM ALL

It's all very illegally ignored by our laboratory. #monsterdon

"This isn't the guy the arm came from", line for the ages

#Monsterdon

@ricci @ohiofi #monsterdon

I care! good job, Ramón.

I hope if I ever get eaten the ominous music playing over my demise is legally distinct from the Jaws™ theme

#Monsterdon

MONSTER CHOMP

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@ohiofi SEEE? No one cares

#Monsterdon

We get more characters introduced. There's a surgeon doing a surgery and saying something about puppies that I was too dull and distracted to pick up on. Then the cop is interviewing a coworker of an alligator murder victim, who does sewer maintenance of some kind. Then we see a bald guy in a bright shirt who is driving a shopping cart into a sewer and tossing out bags of something to a lower level. I think they're dead bodies or something? Maybe meat for the alligator?

#monsterdon

You can go ahead and eat him, Ramon.

#monsterdon

I hope discount Danny DeVito is the first to die #monsterdon #alligator

The greatest job in the world - sewer worker in FL
#monsterdon

OK, I wondered if I was going to end up on Team Alligator for this one and ... yup

#Monsterdon

I am in a perfectly goofy mood for this right now. I didn't realize it included this many lifers. #monsterdon

Wow. The content warnings were understated. #monsterdon

I think the pet shop owner is involved in some ghoulish tinkering.

#monsterdon

is he EXPERIMENTING on the PUPPIES?

this man gets eviscerated when???

#monsterdon

Asshole Scientist isn't even asking for dogs. He's asking for Puppies. Like I didn't already hate him enough. #monsterdon

Das a sugarface on dat bebe

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

@hollie LMBO!!! #Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie it's all I'll be thinking about when I see him now #MOnsterdon

we are gathered here to lay to rest some guy's toe....

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980 "must've been a pretty small casket" <- yes. yes. this was good.

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for an appearance from Lord Robert Forster.

#Monsterdon

Does he think the little alligator is the mastermind of the riots? #Monsterdon

We never stopped off at these kind of things. The quicker we get where we're going, the better. #monsterdon

"Well we promised you gator wrasslin' folks and sometimes the gators win!"

...You callous fuck!

#Monsterdon

"He's ok folks"

narrator: "That was a lie."

#monsterdon #alligator

#monsterdon On nom nom! Movie opens with a great lead!

btw I think Tubi has recently further enshittified, so you only get a 15 minute preview unless you make an account.

#monsterdon

Looks like we're away on tonight's #monsterdon feature.

That is alot of plaid on display. Richard Lynch feels like a guy who's never worn plaid before this film. He's become king of character actor mountain stepping into this movie.
#Monsterdon #Alligator2

"can you translate that into dumb cop?"

"is there any other kind?"

#monsterdon #alligator2

this fucking romantic music to these absolute hellish lines

wow

#monsterdon #alligator2

None of us deserve to be toothpicks, Henry.

#Monsterdon #WrongRamón

Does “mom” count as a name for Bechdel purposes? I assume not

#monsterdon #alligator1980

dang, indiana jones did not age well, did he

but i guess we knew that oof

#monsterdon #alligator2

oh no! An alligator et my connection to mikayu!!

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

I kinda want a jaws ripoff that's a 1:1 except it turns out that the event planner has massive insurance on their event and actually want it cancelled and they think the monster is a fake but SURPRISE IT'S NOT

#monsterdon #alligator2

rich guy has some pretty incompetent flunkies.

#monsterdon

@diazona #Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

it's been eating beach-balls and Ochalas.

We got the gator.
#monsterdon

don't throw it in the sewer! gods know what it'll turn into!?!

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

actually she was questioning his parentage.

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

That was far more fun than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgV7-2WtQvU

#monsterdon

#monsterdon
I will always love Ramone.
#RamoneDidNothingWrong

@floatybirb I know he was younger but it is somewhat mysterious that the same writer wrote Lone Star and The Secret of Roan Inish.

#monsterdon

That was fun! Despite the usual 80s racism misogyny etc. of course #monsterdon #alligator

I am officially disappointed that Dr. Kendall and Ramon never got a happy reunion

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Up next, the baited sequel, Alligator II: The Mutation on @miru

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

@JoeWynne @bk1e What a simply super day!

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@steggy I thought was cute too

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Let's explode another car as a treat #monsterdon #alligator

#monsterdon
The romantic dialogue in this film could kill small mammals. I did like the fact that the gator ate half of the city. Thanks as usual @Taweret , @Cherizilla , @JoeWynne , @paco
for all you do.

Next up on the OwnCast feed from Miro is "Alligator II the Mutation (1991)" Like Alligator One wasn't a mutation at all?

That's too much gator for one evening I think.

#Monsterdon

budget Steve McQueen and Actual Consent went a long way for me.

#monsterdon

poor Ramon died for our sins

or someone's sins

or something

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Sometimes we go to movies just to live briefly in a world with some sort of justice—unpleasant and rough as that was.

#monsterdon #Alligator

I'm assuming the alligator survives whatever he's doing because there's a sequel
#monsterdon #alligator1980

okay, that movie was not """good""" but i did enjoy the hell out of it.

#monsterdon

surely the alligator won’t come back again 11 years later…thanks all for another great #monsterdon and to @Taweret as always for hosting!

@_L1vY_ Hey, he's a leg gator. #Monsterdon

weirdly chill credits music -- music for alligators? #monsterdon

Ah, Chekov's methane cloud.

The pattern baldness was just a red hair-ing.

#Monsterdon

@Terencio

The Illinois Riviera?

#Monsterdon

I was going to claim my “eat the rich” bingo spot but it appears to be mostly going for the staff. Here’s hoping. #monsterdon #alligator #alligator1980

This is our second "Fucked off into the sewers" ending, yes?
#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Thar's a great flick. #monsterdon #alligator1980

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #Alligator, from 1980, was not originally titled "Land Jaws". Instead, we had:

"THE END????"

#monsterdon

wait what its over?

okay, well ty for joining, everyone

#monsterdon