FORMAT: DVD
Gator Bait must have been a huge hit on video. That is the only explanation why it took Ferd and Beverly Sebastian fourteen years to make a sequel. It’s not a patch on that iconic ‘70s drive-in classic, but it remains a solid rape and revenge picture.
Big T. (Trey Loren), the brother of Claudia Jennings’ character from the first movie, is all grown up. He marries a nice city girl named Angelique (Jan Mackenzie) and teaches her all his family’s Cajun customs. Most importantly, he shows her how to hunt and navigate in the swamp. Leroy (Paul Muzzcat), the surviving member of the feuding family from the original, still has a grudge with Big T., so he gets a bunch of his pals together to kidnap and rape his new bride. When he comes home early, the marauders shoot Big T. and leave him for dead. Eventually, Angelique escapes and exacts revenge on her tormentors.
This sequel is more in the vein of I Spit in Your Grave than Gator Bait. (There’s even a rapist who’s mentally handicapped.) The Sebastians were smart not to recast the role of Desiree because no one could’ve filled Jennings’ immortal Daisy Dukes. (It would’ve also been hard to imagine a tough cookie like Jennings playing a victim.) Former GLOW girl Mackenzie isn’t half bad and has a few nude scenes. She is also convincing during her action scenes and looks good while doling out Cajun justice via snake, shotgun, and swamp boat.
If there is a problem with all this, it’s that it’s overlong (ninety-nine minutes) and the set-up is a little clunky. Thankfully, the third act delivers some solid exploitation goodness. It’s almost a shame the Sebastians didn’t make a trilogy out of the series. Instead, they opted to say see ‘ya later gator to the franchise after this entry.
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