The Bayou

It's a shame, really, because the acting, cinematography, and score are all fine for a Horror movie. But the script and the directing are terrible. The best actors on the planet couldn't make these character interactions make sense. They wouldn't be able to make the dialog work either.

There's nothing original in the script. It literally sounds like it was cobbled together by AI, from other movies.

I feel bad for the actors... they clearly were invested in doing their best.

Maybe it was made to be a tax write-off. I'm just rambling now because a certain number of characters (letters) is required.

Is their unlimited and limited funds each year to make crap horror monster movies?! There is naturally and obviously.

It is not bad, it is freakish bad. The monsters out of a 1982 visual effects box, the "blood" came from liters of reddish nail paint, the acting not so bad, the logic of the situations dismal and the ending straight from an empty juice packet.

I'm not against 'The Bayou', I just recommend watching any crocodile, alligator movie since the 1970s and finish with the sterling 2007 'Black Water' . Only then after watching the latter, you'd understand what a croc movie should be.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 3
• Production value/impact: 3
• Development: 6
• Realism: 4
• Entertainment: 3
• Acting: 3.5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 5.5
• VFX: 4
• Music/score/sound: 4
• Depth: 3
• Logic: 2
• Flow: 3.5
• Disaster drama/monster horror/action/thriller: 3
• Ending: 2.

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.

Kyle is mourning the loss of her brother and is invited by her friend Alice to join her as well as two other friends to a trip to Everglades so that Kyle can spread her brother's ashes. Their plane crashes during the journey and all of them get stranded at an unknown swamp. To make matters worse, the swamp is infested by killer alligators who make this fight for survival a tad bit tough Kyle and her friends. As the alligators show fierce behavior which is opposite to their natural instincts, Kyle has to figure out the way to survive and save her friends.

For the budget they had, it is commendable what they did with the alligators alone and ofcourse the plane crash. The screenplay relies on the usual tropes of the nerdy yet stronger lead character and an extremely annoying supporting character who refuses to die at any cost. Remaining supporting cast exist to be gator prey. The writing let's down the core idea which was enough to be a good B movie but the screenplay fails to build the tension. The positives are less and the pay off is non existent for the climax build up. The final face off against the big Christina deserved better execution. A group of survivors up against meth loving alligators needed a crazier screenplay.

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.