‘Alligator Alcatraz' Is a New Low
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'Alligator Alcatraz' sounds like the name of a low-budget horror movie from the early 2000s that you'd find in the $5 DVD bin at Walmart. It has a secret cult following on Letterboxd because it's so bad, it's camp. And the movie poster looks like this:
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