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Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready, Frieda Inescort, Richard Crane, Douglas Kennedy, Hal K. Dawson, Boyd Stockman (mehr)Inhalte(1)
A young wife (Beverly Garland) is abandoned by her husband on their wedding day. Distraught, she traces him to his ancestral home in the bayous of Louisiana, where, amid the swamps and deadly undergrowth, she discovers a terrible secret. Her husband was saved from death by an experimental medical procedure involving serum derived from alligators and now he's developing horrifying side-effects. She'll face any danger to help him, but soon discovers her love may not be enough. (Verleiher-Text)
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Ein Wissenschaftler macht in einem dunklen regnerischen Sumpf Menschenversuche und der Ehemann der Hauptheldin verwandelt sich in ein Krokodil. Im Sumpf des Grauens ist kein Durchfall. Die Produktion ist solide. Ich habe mich über die Bemühungen der Filmemacher gefreut, die die Figuren durch eine zierliche psychologische Darstellung charakterisieren wollten. Paradoxerweise sind sie aber in den spannendsten und dramatischsten Momenten komisch. Und fürchterlich zweitklassig.
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Poster tagline: HER HONEYMOON TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE OF HORROR!!! The synopsis has the sweet touch of proper B-movie horror: in the middle of their honeymoon, a man suddenly leaves his wife. She searches for him all over the country until she tracks him down in the deep south, at his parents' estate, in the middle of an inhospitable swamp, where the cruel truth is revealed: her newlywed husband, after some scientific experiments, is gradually turning into....crocodile!! Enjoying this horror film requires three things: you like talky dramas where you are forced to wait two thirds of the way through for the first major thrill. You don't think it's outright stupid that the main character crosses a swampy landscape with eye-catching models of crocodiles just slapping their jaws in the air. And last but not least, you are tolerant of the naive make up effects of the time. Then you will enjoy this horror flick, solidly produced, with a higher budget and realistic sets of a swamp landscape. The Alligator People really doesn’t deserve the 35% average it has now.
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The Alligator People is an American production that very much conforms to the way movies were made at the time. Therefore, it is a simple, very talkative B-movie, and it seems the production was rushed. Despite not looking particularly great in general, the practical effects and masks are quite good. Unfortunately, they were the only things that caught my attention because otherwise, the movie could hardly be described as horror due to a severe lack of suspense.
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