Lake Placid

Lake Placid is a movie starring Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, and Oliver Platt. Three people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile, who is terrorizing residents in Black Lake, Maine.
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!