Gator Bait 1973

Unless they get her first... she'll never let them out alive! Gator Bait has a surprisingly interesting story going for it. The deputy and his redneck friend lust after a sexy swamp lady in her daily gator wrangling routine, but if she's crazy enough to be playing with alligators, you ought to know this ain't no ordinary woman. As soon as they make their rapist intentions known to her, she plays victim, speeding away in her motor boat until she baits them into her trap.

Snakes! Scaring the men into a panic, the dumb deputy blasts his gun into the boat, as well as his friend's head, and boy does he feel stupid and outwitted by a woman, and this will not stand! He tells his father, the sheriff, a completely different story. He says the woman killed the man! And she sunk his boat too! So the sheriff goes to tell the dead man's father, who has an assortment of hillbilly problems of his own, such as an irritable temper and an immediate need to discipline his incestuous son out to bang that man's daughter. And this is all in the first few minutes. Once he finds out that a woman killed his nitwit son, he's out for revenge with a lynch mob full of rapists, and the ensuing adventure is a sleaze filled cajun romp in the swamp.

I've been wanting to see this movie for years on account of my love of southern trash and rednecksploitation, but it never made itself common until I crossed it on Shudder. Not exactly a horror movie, but definitely something horror fans can appreciate, and a likely candidate for being an inspiration for rape/revenge films that followed, such as I Spit on Your Grave.

I'll keep my eyes open for the sequel, Gator Bait 2: Cajun Justice!

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