Les Dents de la mort

This monster crocodile film is pretty good.If you can find it would be a good collector's video because its a hard one to obtain.If you find it get it!Its not boring,it has some good scenes and a different ending and should satisfy most horror fans!

A giant crocodile is killing and eating river poachers and small kids from the river banks.John Jarratt of "Wolf Creek" fame plays park ranger who is a big protector of crocodiles as well.The local aborigines see this bloodthirsty crocodile as a sacred reptile called "Numunwari" and they want to transfer the beast to its proper upriver.Arch Nicholson's "Dark Age" is a well-made and suspenseful animal attack flick which owes a lot to "Jaws".The killing of small aboriginal kid is quite shocking with its unexpected brutality.The croc itself looks realistic and menacing enough and the attack scenes are surprisingly vicious.The film is also rich in aboriginal myths and symbolism as it poses few important environmental questions.Can't wait to see Arch Nicholson's "Fortress".8 crocs out of 10.

This film was made in Australia and is very hard to find in America, but it is worth watching at least once if you can find it. Basically, it's just an Australian 'JAWS', except that instead of a shark, it's a giant crocodile. The ending is also something to see, because they don't just blow away this magnificent creature as they have in other films of this nature. I won't give away the ending, but it is very interesting. I give it 7.5 out of 10.

The plot was disjointed... and the story even jumped ahead a year without warning... had to figure it out yourself... strange because it was already not the most together plot.

Why do B movies always have a scene where the couple fights like cats and dogs and then ends up with making love?? This one did it... but it was more like they felt the movie needed a nude scene and didn't quite know how to get there.

I found it very interesting that the "monster" croc kept shifting from being a fresh water croc with a thin pointy snout... to a salt water croc with a wider deeper snout.

Watch it if all there is on besides is reruns of Dallas

My review was written in July 1988 after watching the film on Charter video cassette.

Australia's answer to "Jaws", "Dark Age" is a competently made horror film about a legendary large croc on the rampage. It's not a strong enough title on its own and got lost in the distribution pipeline before its current home video release.

Local color (atmospherically filmed in far north Queensland and Northern Territory) highlights this tall tale of Numunwari, a 25-foot long crocodile held sacred by the aborigines. Storms cause the beastie to head down river and start eating humans.

John Jarratt plays a government ranger who's fighting poachers and trying to save crocs from extinction. Ironically, he's assigned by his government superior to hunt down the big beast, while every amateur hunter in sight uses the emergency as an excuse to declare open season on all crocs.

Aboriginal folklore gives "Dark Age" its own flavor, but too many scenes and plot devices directly ape "Jaws" to cornball effect. The issue of protecting local interests against the adverse publicity of recurring croc attacks, the ultimate 3-man trek (Jarratt and two aborigines) after the beast and a very familiar scene of kids swimming peacefully in a harbor when the croc arrives to attack lack originality.

Jarratt is an appealing hero, with the lovely Nikki Coghill effective as an anthropologist and romantic interest. Burnam Burnam is solid as the aboriginal elder, supported ably by David Gulpilil.

Director Arch Nicholson (of HBO's Rachel Ward-starrer "Fortress") has a topflight technical team, but the killer croc's fake look doesn't help to generate scares or suspense.