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Crocodile

review by Paul J Baio

I’m currently watching lesser known Tobe Hooper movies, like Crocodile. Released direct to video in 2000, Crocodile is the story of a group of college students who rent a houseboat to party in the swamps of Florida during spring break. The party soon comes to an end after they disturb a crocodile nest, agitating a giant crocodile. As the croc picks them off one by one, the local sheriff enlists the help of a backwoods alligator farmer to try and rescue them. Although it features a mix of so-so practical and bad early 2000 cgi effects, the movie is a really good time. It plays like an ’80s rural/campfire horror film with a killer croc instead of a slasher or kill-billies, which was Hooper’s intention. You can stream it for free on YouTube.