Alligator
dir. Lewis Teague · 1980
A baby alligator, Ramon, is flushed down a toilet and grows into a monstrous predator, feasting on the remains of laboratory animals subjected to unethical experiments. As the creature emerges from the sewers, the film unfolds with a relentless tension that mirrors the chaos of urban life and the grotesque consequences of human negligence.
Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals that have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers..
