
Annihilation(2018)
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.


“Nerve-shattering terror!”
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

Beverly Garland
Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin

Bruce Bennett
Dr. Eric Lorimer

Lon Chaney Jr.
Manon

George Macready
Dr. Mark Sinclair

Frieda Inescort
Mrs. Lavinia Hawthorne

Richard Crane
Paul Webster

Douglas Kennedy
Dr. Wayne McGregor
Bill Bradley
Patient 'Number Six' (uncredited)

Hal K. Dawson
Conductor

Dudley Dickerson
Porter
The Alligator People is a science fiction, horror, mystery film released in 1959 exploring themes of mutant, alligator, swamp, absurd, cliché. Directed by Roy Del Ruth, it stars Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr.. Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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