Remember Meth was the scourge of America's youth. Before that crack. Before that cocaine. Before that PCP. LSD and marijuana were before that. I guess now we have Fentanyl murdering us by the hundreds of thousands. It is easy to forget alligators. They probably eat millions of Floridians per year. Combine the lizard creature with a Meth addiction and we have a neat one from The Asylum...2023's "Meth Gator," directed by Christopher Olen Ray.
Yep...we'll be cheering for the gator. Sheriff Williams (Bruce Peoples) and his deputy get the drop on a couple of Meth dealers. A chase into the swamp ensues and massive amounts of Meth are thrown into the swamp. The gator swallows it and eats one of the dealers and a deputy. Now the gator behaves like an addict...even loses a tooth or two. Dante (LaRonn Marzett) arrives from the DEA in order to help the sheriff find a massive Meth lab in the swamp and to kill the gator. He meets up with an old flame, Anna (Vanesa Tamayo) who used to be a cop...and now is a bartender...don't ask. The gator gets jumpy and seeks more Meth. He'll eat more Meth dealers, a bikini babe, a cell tower, more deputies, the mayor, etc. The kill count will be high.
Bithlo (Ray Acevedo) is a gator hunter but not a very good one. His drone will get eaten by the creature and he'll be chased by it continually throughout the film. In one of the most awkward scenes in film history, Dante will come upon some rednecks drinking beer at a campfire and enter a slapping-in-the-face contest with one of them. Don't ask. Mercifully, the scene ends and our merry group of characters continue their trek to find the gator and the mega-lab.
Is there any chance that the gator will prevail? Will Anna and Dante get back together, and will they actually make us care? Is this film an accurate representation of what America's war on Fentanyl is destined to become? Maybe "Fentanyl Croc"? For some neat alligator horror, with a high kill count, and an explosive ending... see "Meth Gator."
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