Killer Crocodile (1989)

A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.

Director:

Fabrizio De Angelis (as Larry Ludman)

Writers:

Fabrizio De Angelis (screenplay) (as Larry Ludman), Fabrizio De Angelis (story) (as Larry Ludman)

Stars:

Richard Anthony Crenna, Pietro Genuardi, John Harper

Cast

Cast overview:
Richard Anthony Crenna	...	Kevin (as Anthony Crenna)
Pietro Genuardi	...	Mark (as Julian Hampton)
John Harper	...	Bob
Sherrie Rose	...	Pamela
Ann Douglas	...	Jennifer
Ennio Girolami	...	Joe (as Thomas Moore)
Van Johnson	...	Judge
Bill Wohrman	...	Foley (as Wohrman Williams)
Gray Jordan
Amilcar Martins	...	(as Marte Amilcar)
Franklin Dominguez	...	Pathologist
Dionicio Castro
Nic Gavin

Storyline

A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.

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Plot Keywords:

giant crocodile | toxic waste | crocodile | violence | blood on camera lens | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

30 July 1989 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Murder Alligator

Filming Locations:

Dominican Republic

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fulvia Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film and it's sequel Killer Crocodile II (1990) where filmed simultaneously.

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Connections

Referenced in Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten: Slugs (2018)

User Reviews

Crocodile Rock!

Well, this wasn't nearly as bad as I initially feared it would be, and that's pretty much the best compliment you can give to a cheap and anonymous Italian-produced creature feature rip-off. "Killer Crocodile" is actually a rather funny movie if you analyze it a little bit… Even though it was made more than 14 years and numerous amounts of other B-movie rip-offs later, Fabrizio De Angelis still pretends his film is the first imitation of Jaws ever accomplished! The premise is very similar, and especially the POV-shots and use of music are shamelessly stolen from Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking monster-movie, like no other movie tried to do that before. But hey, nonetheless the movie is very entertaining, rather fast-paced and at least the vast majority of the small budget went to special effects department. The giant croc, albeit not very menacing, is a fairly impressive mechanical creation that is proudly shown several times throughout the entire movie, so at least you don't have to fear that all the action and death-sequences take place off-screen. The plot is standard monster-movie guff, with a group of over-ambitious and spineless environmentalists cruising down the Santa Domingo River and discovering that these swamps are used as a dumping place for industrial radioactive waste barrels. Months, maybe even years of dumping waste in the water is unquestionably also the reason why the crocodile mutated into a gigantically angry and insatiable killing machine that devours everyone who sets foot in his swamp territory. The activists get assistance from an ultimately stereotypical macho-hunter (Italian exploitation-regular Thomas Moore), while the mean guys who're polluting the swamps desperately attempt to get rid of them. De Angelis cheerfully serves one cliché after the other and the screenplay is entirely tension-free, yet you forgive him because it's such cheesy fun! The acting (and mainly the dubbing) is horrid and most of the dialogs are completely misplaced, but thank God for good old-fashioned gratuitous gore. Call me biased, but this type of horror-cinema is certainly a lot more enjoyable than the nowadays monster-movies with hideous CGI effects, like "Blood Surf" and Tobe Hooper's disastrous "Crocodile".