In 1979, director Sergio Martino had this movie as well as his "ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN" movie released... both of which starred Barbara Bach and Claudio Cassinelli.

I'm sure there's a story there... so, yeah. Go knock yourself out and find out why Martino thought that Bach and Cassinelli were the "It" couple of 1979.

This movie about a huge alligator and a local native tribe both killing everyone and everything around them... has its moments.

However, outside of a "spunky kid" who goes around smart-mouthing all the nearby adults, there's not a lot of excitement here. I mean... deaths do occur every now and again. And towards the end, there's huge amounts of casualties.

But still... for a man-eating monster movie, it's surprisingly ho-hum.

(...kinda wish the wise-cracking kid would've gotten eaten up, but oh well...)

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Hoop #39 of CINEMONSTER's The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

My Wild List and all my silly Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 12.0 List.

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