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The Flood cast showcases a mix of seasoned actors with fresh faces, led by Casper Van Dien and Nicky Whelan. Director Brandon Slagle's 2023 film follows a group of prisoners and guards battling alligators amid a hurricane in Louisiana. Characters like Russell Cody and Sheriff Jo Newman bring depth to the story as they navigate survival and unexpected alliances.

The Flood cast features an interesting mix of familiar faces and lesser-known actors. The 2023 creature feature film is directed by Brandon Slagle, known for The Dark Avengers and Subject 87. The Flood focuses on a group of prisoners and guards trapped amid a hurricane in Louisiana. Due to the flood, a bus transporting prisoners to their intended location is redirected to a nearby sheriff's station. An uprising by the prisoners takes a disastrous turn when they realize that the flooded streets are infested with hungry alligators, eager for their next prey.

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Borrowing a page from 2019’s Crawl, The Flood aims to escalate the thrills by pitting man-eating alligators against cops and prisoners in a flooded Louisiana jail amidst a raging hurricane. It’s a high concept scenario that lends itself well to action-horror thrills and B-movie fun. The Flood doesn’t quite follow through on execution, though. It’s not the rough effects that sink The Flood, but an overly convoluted plot that bogs down the runtime.

Louisiana sheriff Jo Newman (Nicky Whelan) already has enough on her plate, trying to corral her officers into preparing the leaking police station from further storm damage during a ferocious hurricane. Then she receives a phone call announcing the unexpected arrival of a prison transport bus in dire need of temporary shelter for the night. Newman’s reluctance gets overruled, and she’s forced to contend with a group of dangerous convicts, including cop...

The Flood follows Jo Newman (Nicky Whelan), the sheriff of a Louisiana police department in the middle of a massive hurricane. Because of the bad weather, a truck full of inmates stops at the station for the night. Things become more complicated when a group of criminals comes to break out one of the inmates, Russell Cody (Casper Van Dien). Of course, there are more complications when alligators storm the flooded station as well.

So then both the cops and the criminals must work together in what's essentially Assault on Prescient 13 but with alligators. Or Ghosts on Mars with alligators, if you prefer John Carpenter's inferior sci-fi remake of his own film for some odd reason.

Silly CGI Gators

Let's start with the bad. During their first scene, each convict gets a freeze-frame and caption saying their name and charge, which has two problems with it. One, it's unnecessary...

Ahh, the year in skin.

It's not the golden "Deep Throat" years of the '70s anymore, it's the age of the Internet and no one really goes to the movies to see nudity, but women proved they were hungry for some beefcake with the wild success of "Magic Mike." Meanwhile, A-list actresses bared it all for some compelling reasons that were absolutely integral to the script… hehe.

Here's our comprehensive list of major celebs who got in the buff so perverts could post screengrabs on Internet forums.

Ladies

Kristen Stewart, 'On the Road'

She may be a trampire in real-life, but Stewart's also got a polyamorous streak in the movie version of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," a.k.a. "This Seemed Cooler When I Was in High School English Class." As free spirit Marylou, Stewart gets to have a go with both Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund...

Chicago – We’re doing something we’ve never done before at HollywoodChicago.com — reviewing a TV show that isn’t on the air…yet. Acclaimed producer Michael Wilson, a veteran of TV comedy from years working on “Saturday Night Live,” “Politically Incorrect,” and “Burn Notice,” is shopping a pilot for a new sketch comedy series called “The Men’s Room” and was kind enough to grant us access to a copy. As I work my way through the dozens of new shows that the networks have deemed worthy of spots on their 2012-13 schedules, it’s interesting to see something at this stage of the process, before it’s been given a green light. I use the word “before” because I’m pretty confident that a network will pick it up. They’d be stupid not to given the fact that it’s better than half of the shows already...

Producer/Manager Larry Thompson, who has his hands full at the moment with the Lindsay Lohan-starring telefilm Liz & Dick, produced by his company, is also about to take out a male-skewing sketch comedy pilot. Thompson has teamed with producer Michael Wilson (Saturday Night Live, Politically Incorrect) on the project. Wilson financed and produced the completed pilot, said to be in the vein of such sketch-comedy shows as The Kids in The Hall, The State and Monty Python’s Flying Circus and described by Wilson as a show “by guys, for guys who like sketch comedy.” The ensemble cast features performers from The Groundlings and the Second City and includes Robert Belushi, Scott Beehner, Cooper Barnes, Sitara Falcon, T’Shaun Barrett, Bruce Wexler, Jo Newman, Mark Gagliardi and Marta McGonagle. The pilot will be shopped shortly by the Gersh Agency.