This week we watched the film Alligator from 1980, its jaws... but in the sewer and on land for a short period of time.

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Alligator (1980)
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..

In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida. When the family returns home to Chicago, the girl's surly, animal-phobic father promptly flushes it down the toilet and into the city's sewers.

The baby alligator survives by feeding on the discarded carcasses of animals used in illegal experimentation and dumped into the sewers. These animals had been used as test subjects for an experimental growth formula intended to increase agricultural livestock meat production. However, the project was abandoned because while the formula had the desired effect of making the animals larger than normal, it had the unwanted side effect of massively increasing the animals' metabolism, causing them to develop an insatiable appetite. During the 12 years spanning 1968 and 1980, the baby alligator bioaccumulates concentrated amounts of this formula from feeding on these carcasses, causing it to mutate and grow into a perpetually ravenous 36 foot (11 m) monster resembling a Deinosuchus-Purussaurus hybrid with an almost-impenetrable hide.

The alligator begins ambushing and devouring sewer workers. The resulting discovery of body parts exiting the sewers draws in world-weary police detective David Madison who, after a horribly botched case in St. Louis, has gained a reputation for being lethally unlucky for his assigned partners. As David works on the case, his boss Chief Clark introduces him to herpetologist Marisa Kendall. Kendall was in fact the teenager who bought the baby alligator in 1968. The two of them edge into a prickly romantic relationship, and during a visit to Kendall’s house, Madison bonds with her motor-mouthed mother.

Madison's reputation as a partner-killer is confirmed when the alligator devours a young officer named Kelly who accompanies Madison into the sewer searching for clues. No one believes Madison’s story due to a lack of a body, and partly because of Slade, the influential local tycoon who sponsored the illegal experiments and therefore wants the truth concealed. This changes when obnoxious tabloid reporter Thomas Kemp, one of the banes of Madison’s existence, goes snooping in the sewers and procures graphic and indisputable photographic evidence of the beast at the involuntary cost of his life. The story quickly garners public attention, and a citywide hunt for the monster is called for.

After the police unsuccessfully attempt to flush out the alligator, Madison is put on suspension. The alligator escapes from the sewers and comes to the surface, first killing a police officer and later a young boy who, during a party, is tossed into a swimming pool in which the alligator sought rest.

GHMC 055 - Alligator (1980)

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RIPPER OF 96

Savage, seductive, and seething with vengeance, “I Eat Boys Like You For Breakfast” is Wanted’s fiery anthem against cheaters and manipulators. Drawing on years of frustration from being mistreated by older men, Wanted becomes a force of nature—part temptress, part predator, and all karma.

With razor-sharp wit and biting lyrics, she lures unfaithful men to their doom, turning their betrayal into her own personal buffet. Critics to her diet? They can cry her a river—she’ll be fishing there soon for her next meal.

Packed with a deliciously dark sense of justice, this track is Wanted at her most unapologetically wicked.

Lyrics:

[Verse 1.0]
I can’t keep demonising men,
It’s unfair to the devil,
I realised this when I was sixteen,
And a man called me special,

He lay me on his continental quilt,
Touched me tender as a petal,
And my stomach writhed with guilt,
On his wife’s side of the headboard,

Man, I really fucking hate cheaters,
So guess what? I’ve become a man eater!

[Chorus]
I am the apple, I am the temptress,
And I eat boys like you for breakfast,
I am the thunder, I am the tempest,
And I! Eat! Boys! Like! You! For Breakfast!

[Bridge]
Fornicators you should lay low,
‘Cause I’m waiting on a table,
And I’ve ordered up a plateful,
Of a man whose been unfaithful, 

The bigamists and all the hateful,
Who slander my palate as shameful?
You can all go cry me a river and then throw yourselves in it,
‘Cause after I’m done picking the bones of this one,
I’m going fishing!

[Chorus]
I am the apple, I am the temptress,
And I eat boys like you for breakfast,
I am the thunder, I am the tempest,
And I! Eat! Boys! Like! You! For Break! Fast!

[Chorus]
I am the apple, I am the temptress,
And I eat boys like you for breakfast,
I am the thunder, I am the tempest,
And! I! Eat! Boys! Like! You! For Breakfast!

[Outro]
Man, I really fucking hate cheaters,
So guess what? I’ve become a man eater!

I Eat Boys Like You For Breakfast

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WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE

Name: Wanted
Crimes: Bank robbing, bar fighting, and seducing the law.

Wanted’s rap sheet is as wild as her music. She’s wanted in Kentucky for reasons no one will discuss, crossed the infamous James Gang (and lived to sing about it), and once slipped cuffs in Salinas by seducing the sheriff who was hunting her.

Reward: $5,000 and a broken heart—because no one can catch Wanted without falling for her first. 

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