Killer Crocodile (1989)

Best movie of this year hands down!

So much average

An Exercise In Nonsense

Blistering performances.

The Great Alligator (1979) was already done so Italy decided to give us Killer Crocodile. A massive crocodile is munching on everybody in the swamp that has been used to dump radioactive waste.They rearrange a few notes to the Jaw's theme for the opening credits and then use the exact music later on. They duplicate a few classic scenes as well. Campy as hell. The crocodile they use looks alright until the mouth moves and the back of his mouth looks like its made of paper. Not very gory as the crocodile use takes his food to go.Over acting is prominent in this one but stick it out for the end. The way they kill the creature is priceless. I'm not really giving away the ending because their is Killer Crocodile 2 which now I have watch. On a side note the guy who directs this was a producer for most of Fulci's films. I still have to see his Breakfast With Dracula (1993).

Heading out to an abandoned marsh, a group of ecology students studying the dangerous effects of toxic waste in the area find it home to a ravenous, monstrous crocodile attacking the locals and must join up with a hunter to try to stop it before it eats through the group.This is quite a fun and highly enjoyable cheesy creature feature. One of the more impressive elements here is the fact that there's quite a large number of creature attacks throughout that manage to work out an incredibly fun pace for this one. Starting immediately with the initial attack on the couple in the lake before turning to the surprise launch out of the water to startle the fishermen later on, there's a lot of great short attacks here with the croc launching itself out of the water to go for the attack. The first attack on the member in the woods searching for their dog, a rather tense scene in the swamp where they have to free their boat from being tangled in the weeds of the surrounding water being shot from the croc's eye-view surrounding them and the absolutely stellar encounter at the local pier where it attacks the villagers attempting to rescue the girl from the creatures' clutches and avoid the rampaging creature which is some thrilling moments of the croc head poking out of the water preparing to snap at the rescuers all manage to help aide the action of this one along. With that letting the locals know of the creature, this turns the film into a great series of hunting-style action scenes where the local hunter joins them in their quest and the resulting scenes of the two different groups encountering the creature in the wilderness results in some fine scenes of the creature splitting up the group setting the boat adrift and crashing into the boat picking them off one-by-one or the chilling attack on the campsite as it comes out with them in their tents and head off into the jungle at night. As well, that leads into the finale which is a rather rousing and high-energy action- packed affair with a great plan to stop the creature and results in some fun moments with the group on the boat and the creature in the water bringing about some great gory deaths along the way. The last plus here is the croc prop featured throughout here, which is always a plus due to the physical on-screen presence it generates. While these here make the film work, there's still a few minor elements at work against this one. The main thing with this one is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of interest derived in the film's clichéd political cover-up angle, being a part of just about every single one of these types of creature features where the locals are involved in the creation of the monster but keep their involvement hidden in the interest of their political careers that would end up preventing lots of chaos and anguish if it came out earlier. It's obvious what's going on, but instead following through on this and doing something interesting it relies on the clichés which is distressing and leads to some downtime in these sections spilling it out even further. Likewise, the creature looks good in most scenes but it's still obviously a prop throughout here and doesn't really change that fact too often. Otherwise, this one was quite a fun and enjoyable effort.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity and children-in-jeopardy.

A group of environmentalists discover that barrels of radioactive waste have been dumped along a Santo Domingo river.This causes a giant crocodile to emerge and start devouring the local villagers."Killer Crocodile" by Fabrizio De Angelis is an extraordinarily poor horror film that provides tons of cheese and amusing moments.The film rips-off "Jaws" and is filled with bad acting and idiotic scenes.The main star of it is of course the killer crocodile,who devours its victims incredibly fast.The existence of this bloodthirsty beast is never fully explained.Give this one a look,only if you enjoy trashy Italian horror films.6 out of 10.

Rented this film for being a horror-moviefan and got me one of the most amusing comedies I've seen. It's very hard to give this film any horror categorizing, did they ever (the film-makers) thougt this would scare anybody? After one minute or so the croc appears and I realized that this can be 90 terrible minutes of my life, but ooh, one needs to laugh sometimes.With the special effects, that already by others been clearified, which are stiffy to say the least, the musical score that is ripped from John Williams jaws (in particular the second track of the "jaws"-soundtrack) - it's already then amusing. Then comes the characters, boy o boy, the teenagers behaviour in Fr:13:s movies are deep thougt genious moves. The dialogue for ex: ....yeah.....maybe you're right about that.....(dramatic thinkingpause) ..or maybe you're wrong.... (and the camera starts pulling back after this refreshing turn of event). Interesting how this monstrous beast loses a big tooth on a very thin wall that just about stands for itself and how a propellermachine can explode - once, twice, three...four...I lost count of the explosions. Finally, for now, the experienced hunter that shoots the hero (the croc) with a elephant-rifle time after time with no effect to the beast whatsoever jumps overboard onto the crocs back and starts poking it with a boathook (yeah, THAT will do a wonders).Tons of stuff like this and I can only recommend this for those who want to laugh at a bad (but amusing) movie, a little gore, but that is NOT what you remember after seeing "Killer Krokodile" (the spelling on the swedish cover).(Got to see the sequel)