Infierno En El Pantano

After suffering through Skinamarink, one of the most boring horror films I have ever seen, I needed to cleanse my palate, so to speak. The Bayou fits the bill perfectly - it's a cheap and cheerful creature feature with absolutely no pretensions. It does exactly what it says on the tin and is actually better than I expected, with above average CGI for this kind of thing, a smattering of gore and reasonable performances.

Athena Strates plays Kyle, who flies to the everglades with her friends to scatter the ashes of her older brother Jamie (Flynn Barnard). Disaster strikes when the plane experiences engine trouble and ditches in the middle of a swamp, where the alligator population has turned super-aggressive due to the powerful narcotic that was dumped in the water during a raid on an illegal drug factory.

The film obviously won't win any awards for originality, but it's not trying to - it knows exactly what is required of it, moving swiftly along, delivering a few jump scares and a fair bit of suspense. And it doesn't scrimp on the gator action: there's numerous ravenous reptiles, both practical and computer generated, and they put quite a few similarly themed films to shame.

6/10. Worth a go if it's a brainless, no-nonsense bit of fun you're after.

First off. I find myself saying this all the time when looking at reviews on here. There are very very few films deserving a 1 rating. But any that are would include all of high school level acting, bad dialogue AND special effects. If you need to know what that is watch any number of random horrors on Amazon. If a movie doesn't have all of those and more it's probably not a 1 and it's very unhelpful to people looking for guidance to hand out 1s because you just didn't like it and apparently it was the worst movie you ever saw.

As far as Gator Creek. Honestly it was what I expected going in (Expectation is part and a basis of all opinions). A fair horror with plenty of clichéd scares and horror tropes But with actually above average effects and acting (Yes the acting wasn't going to win awards but what horror ever does. The acting and dialogue was perfect for what it was and that's all you can ask )

So no awards but an enjoyable slightly above average horror adventure. If you go into it well versed in horror movies this won't disappoint. If you go into it having only watched Oscar winners from Hollywood's golden age, well you might have a problem.

Idk if I'm hallucinating but before the second half of the movie at around the 36:36 minute mark, I see mountains. This movie is set in louisiana and there are no mountains in louisiana especially not of that scale. Another thing I would like the mention is the movement of the alligators which isn't all realistice since they're faster and they also lift off the ground.

I put this movie on last night not expecting much but it is so much better than I expected.

I thought it would be on par with a lot of Asylum films but this is way better.

The CGI is pretty good, the acting is also pretty good. Sure there's the expected a'hole characters and silly sacrifices but all in all it's a fun movie.

What's not to like? People and alligators in the bayou.

I don't know why other people have given it such rubbish reviews, glad I didn't read them before I watched it.

I went in expecting rubbish and was pleasantly surprised.

Why not give it a go.

If you like creature features, this is the movie for you.

Ug, talk about a bad high school project, whole thing was probably filmed from an iphone. The trailer says from the producers of "47 meters down" uh really?

This is like cheap beyond cheap production, which is alright if they tried but the people are annoying, the story makes no sense, and just irritatingly the whole way that gives me a headache.

Everyone in the film is so unlikable and makes no sense, was cheering for the CGI gators. I mean, yeah, these kinds of films should have annoying people, but there's a limit.

And did the meth make the gather super smart too? That Jurassic Park 3 ending is ludicrous.

Easily 1/10.