I doubt it was harmed for the purposes of the film, but there's a real dead and dismembered alligator in it. Children poke at it until someone rolls it into the water.
They show an alligator between min 6-9, not the death. But the body is the focus of the shot continuously until it’s put back in the water - scene is over at 9 min in (watching in HBO)
Skip from 7:55 (or right after Anna screams) to 8:47 (when the scene changes completely) to avoid the dead alligator.
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Heads up that the alligator was real. Its dead, partially dismembered body is prodded/dragged around during the scene (which I kind of can't believe they were allowed to do). If you're sensitive to that at all, I'd be careful to skip it.
The already dead alligator is A REAL ALLIGATOR. Seriously upsetting that they chose to use a real animal. No where says if animals were harmed in the making of this film…