Okay, we need to clear some things up. The title of the movie! "Gator Lake"? "Crocodile Revenge"? "Lake Jesup: Bonecrusher's Revenge"? Best I can tell, we should go with "Gator Lake: Bonecrusher's Revenge." Next...based on true events? Yep...and we'll go with that. Bonecrusher? A big crocodile...or alligator. Crocodile or alligator? Take my word for it...same difference! When you meet one face to face you won't go all marine biologist and try to classify it. Horror story? No, love story. Sadly, there is a case to be made for this. Let us look at 2025's "Gator Lake," directed by Michael Houston King.
Bonecrusher escapes from Gator World and chews up 11 people in Lake Jesup, or Swamp Lake. Bonecrusher? Gator World's star attraction that Gator World's owner, Angus Sullivan (Jeff Benninghofen) raised by feeding it human remains. Now Bonecrusher has a taste for human flesh and we all know, once one taste's human flesh, we cannot go back to beef. Enter Bubba (Derek Russo). He just got out of the joint after 22 years. He's a croc hunter and knows Bonecrusher well. Bubba is hired by the mayor (King) to kill Bonecrusher. Bonecrusher is still eating peeps. Bubba then goes on the most low energy gator hunt, or croc hunt, anyone can imagine. He watched Bonecrusher eat more peeps all while ticking off some broad named Lainy (Sarah Voigt). Lainy? Never mind. There is no way humanly possible to explain Lainy to you in a way you'd understand, but she provides this film with dozens of awkward scenes. I will say that Lainy just seems like the kind of gal you would always be apologizing to if you dated her. Now, enough said.
Lainy makes us look away from the screen and at our feet. Let's forget about her. Bubba has a score to settle. He blames Sullivan for all the carnage, the death of his wife, and now suspects his dear departed wife's remains may have been fed to Bonecrusher. Bubba grunts a lot. Bubba yells at Sullivan a lot. Bubba does something to Lainy that we kind of assume is romancing her. Bonecrusher eats more people. Oh, to slow the plot down, Bubba has a daughter (Katie Gibbons) he has not seen in 22 years, and a grandson he has never seen. Yep, they are in this...and they make us cheer for Bonecrusher. Eventually, Bubba does come up with a great plan to find and kill Bonecrusher and you won't believe what he will use for bait.
Will Bubba be able to romance Lainy and suck some face with her? Will Bonecrusher eat Lainy, and Bubba's daughter and grandson? Will Bubba ever go high-energy? Oh! I should point out that this film is the magnum opus of Savannah Grace Elmer. Miss Elmer (pictured in the bikini top above) is a beautiful actress who can recite the alphabet backwards. Really. This is a good one in an MST3K type of way. For some gator, or croc fun, see "Gator Lake," or whatever this film is called.
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