To give you an idea, the original titles was "Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators". I kid you not.
The stereotypes run wild just like the gators in this film that is really like no other I have seen. A young female college student returns to the Bayou to see her redneck family.
She finds that her family and other are still feuding and the other family has been making moonshine using a new chemical which they have been dumping into the swamp. This is creating mutant alligators who are extremely vicious.
Not only are they vicious but if you get bitten and live you are also turned into an alligator!! This is somewhat reminding me of the 1959 sci-fi classic "The Alligator People" but don't get me wrong, that was a far superior film.
Anyway as things progress more people are killed and the young woman's entire family is transformed into alligators. Now, if you think that is all way too much to swallow just wait.
Hollyweird does everything it can to make us believe they hate stereotypes, but again that is only a one way street. It is made very clear in this film that anyone with a conservative view is nothing but an alcohol swilling, pot bellied, foul mouthed redneck. The issue doesn't bother me as I really don't care, but as a conservative person myself I thought that was a story killer right there.
Anyhow, the story starts out just fine, but when it takes a turn into alligator people it seems to fall apart and that is a shame because it could have been good, not great, but good. Sadly this is what passes for genre material today and it's no wonder many people look at these kinds of films and cringe.
If you so desire check it out.
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