Vinnie Brown, the head of Future Chemicals, has been doing some nasty things. First, he does shady business dealings with very unsavory folks. Second, he has been dumping chemicals down into the sewers. Do you know what toxic chemicals can do to the wild life down in the sewers? Well it will mutate them, of course! Along with turtles, the second most vulnerable animal to toxic sewer waste is the alligator. That’s right, eleven years after the first film another mutated alligator is hitting the streets of Chicago and boy is he hungry!

Alligator II: The Mutation can best be summed up from a quote taken directly from the movie, enjoy: "It was a crocodile, I tell ya. It was big... no huge, with big teeth, and it was mean, too!” - Otis the bum.

Truer words have never been spoken, these type of movies must have Marlin Perkins spinning in his grave.

Ok, so another big alligator is roaming the Chicago swamps, yes, I said Chicago Swamps. I can't believe that HorrorWatch’s own native Chicago son, SirWiggle, has never told us about the rampant mutated alligator attacks in the murky swamps of his home town, tragic I say!

So anyhow the big ol' gator goes on a munching spree and must once again be stopped by the local police. The local authorities themselves are not match for a hungry gator and they end up getting some help from alligator hunter Hawk Hawkins, played by horror and sci-fi vet Richard Lynch, trust me you've seen him before. The police teamed with Hawkins will have no trouble taking out the gator.

The effects in this one are bad, real bad most of the time it is a fake alligator snout being either pushed on a surfboard or a skate board depending if it is on land or not. The scenes where they show the alligator in all it's glory are actually smaller sets using a real gator, this almost worked in the 50's but in the 90's… no way.

Look for Dee Wallace Stone and superstuntman Kane Hodder in small roles, but even these two do nothing for this movie. Alligator II: The Mutation is almost a waste of time, almost I say because even this flick is better than infomercials at 4 am on a Saturday night horror movie bender.

3/10