Bad CGI Gator
2023·Comedy·58m
7.0
★
Six college grads on spring break get a cabin in the swamplands of Georgia. Once there, they decide to throw their school laptops in a backyard lake in an act of youthful defiance, which unknowingly turns a lurking alligator into the dreaded and insatiable… BAD CGI GATOR!
Directed by Danny Draven
monster
alligator
gore
beer pong
college friends
nudity
blood
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Cast
Maddie Lane
Hope
Michael Bonini
Sam
Cooper Drippe
Pearce
Rebecca Stoughton
Sarah
Sarah Buchanan
Paisley
Ben VanderMey
Chad
Lee Fealy
Jim
Crew
Jojo Draven
Original Music Composer
Thomas L. Callaway
Director of Photography
Nakai Nelson
Co-Producer
Charles Band
Producer
Nakai Nelson
Line Producer
Brooks Davis
First Assistant Director
Matt Jones
Script Supervisor
Popular Reviews
15 reviews
Moses
5.0★ · 05/11/26
Interior crocodile alligator
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater 🎶
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater 🎶
Interior crocodile alligator
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater 🎶
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater 🎶
annie murray
1.0★ · 03/04/26
hope to see more from danny draven
hope to see more from danny draven
Ennie Emik
1.0★ · 02/25/26
I freaking loved this film and I can't diside wether it was trash or peek (and yes I watched bad CGI gator but have interstellar and goodfellas in my watchlist 😭)
I freaking loved this film and I can't diside wether it was trash or peek (and yes I watched bad CGI gator but have interstellar and goodfellas in my watchlist 😭)
Thom
1.3★ · 04/10/25
im gonna fail this nueropsych exam dawg
im gonna fail this nueropsych exam dawg
Skipp
4.0★ · 01/24/25
A group of college kids on spring break find themselves in a situation when the laptops they throw into the lake they’re staying at supersize and computer generate a man-eating alligator. My bearded dragon bit me once, I imagine that being bitten by a CGI gator would feel similar.
The big takeaway I had from Bad CGI Gator is that I don’t think Charles Band and his team entirely gets Gen Z. He’s in his early seventies running one of the long running but small movie studios, so surely he must have some Gen Z presence on set or in the office right? He gets the stereotypes - we all wanna be influencers and act like we care about the world and people around us but truly we’re selfish college-age dumb party animals - but maybe that’s all you need when you’re supposed to be making a movie about a titular bad CGI alligator. The dialogue Zalman Band (Charles’s son) writes is abysmal, made as if he is thinking of 90s frat kids rather than actual Gen Z - baffling, considering he was born in 1995 and is not that far off from the generation in question. It’s performative at best and it feels cringe at worst, and it usually leans towards worst.
I like the characters of Sam and Hope. I think that’s intentional on Band’s part. And when the gator, the bad CGI gator, is out and about, that’s great! That’s what we’re here for! That’s what we came here to see! You get exactly what was advertised! The rest then feels like a really professionally shot YouTube sketch that realistically gets nowhere near where this film could have gone in just fifty-eight minutes.
Once you get into that part of every Full Moon movie where the boobs come out and the gore and the comedy begins - the second half - it gets okay (and I mean just okay) beyond the mind-numbingly baffling decisions these characters make like NOT GETTING IN THE CAR WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT or not realizing you have so much alcohol you could Molotov it, but the ending we actually get is so stupid I feel like they wrote themselves into a corner and this was their best solution. It’s an embarrassing reflection on a man who was once a semi-notable film producer. Band could easily be, or perhaps already is, the closest modern thing we have to another Corman - and as it stands with films like these that’s struggling with the balance of being both derogatory and complimentary.
And at least splurge on the rights to a cover of “Maneater” for God’s sake!
The big takeaway I had from Bad CGI Gator is that I don’t think Charles Band and his team entirely gets Gen Z. He’s in his early seventies running one of the long running but small movie studios, so surely he must have some Gen Z presence on set or in the office right? He gets the stereotypes - we all wanna be influencers and act like we care about the world and people around us but truly we’re selfish college-age dumb party animals - but maybe that’s all you need when you’re supposed to be making a movie about a titular bad CGI alligator. The dialogue Zalman Band (Charles’s son) writes is abysmal, made as if he is thinking of 90s frat kids rather than actual Gen Z - baffling, considering he was born in 1995 and is not that far off from the generation in question. It’s performative at best and it feels cringe at worst, and it usually leans towards worst.
I like the characters of Sam and Hope. I think that’s intentional on Band’s part. And when the gator, the bad CGI gator, is out and about, that’s great! That’s what we’re here for! That’s what we came here to see! You get exactly what was advertised! The rest then feels like a really professionally shot YouTube sketch that realistically gets nowhere near where this film could have gone in just fifty-eight minutes.
Once you get into that part of every Full Moon movie where the boobs come out and the gore and the comedy begins - the second half - it gets okay (and I mean just okay) beyond the mind-numbingly baffling decisions these characters make like NOT GETTING IN THE CAR WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT or not realizing you have so much alcohol you could Molotov it, but the ending we actually get is so stupid I feel like they wrote themselves into a corner and this was their best solution. It’s an embarrassing reflection on a man who was once a semi-notable film producer. Band could easily be, or perhaps already is, the closest modern thing we have to another Corman - and as it stands with films like these that’s struggling with the balance of being both derogatory and complimentary.
And at least splurge on the rights to a cover of “Maneater” for God’s sake!
A group of college kids on spring break find themselves in a situation when the laptops they throw into the lake they’re staying at supersize and computer generate a man-eating alligator. My bearded dragon bit me once, I imagine that being bitten by a CGI gator would feel similar.
The big takeaway I had from Bad CGI Gator is that I don’t think Charles Band and his team entirely gets Gen Z. He’s in his early seventies running one of the long running but small movie studios, so surely he must have some Gen Z presence on set or in the office right? He gets the stereotypes - we all wanna be influencers and act like we care about the world and people around us but truly we’re selfish college-age dumb party animals - but maybe that’s all you need when you’re supposed to be making a movie about a titular bad CGI alligator. The dialogue Zalman Band (Charles’s son) writes is abysmal, made as if he is thinking of 90s frat kids rather than actual Gen Z - baffling, considering he was born in 1995 and is not that far off from the generation in question. It’s performative at best and it feels cringe at worst, and it usually leans towards worst.
I like the characters of Sam and Hope. I think that’s intentional on Band’s part. And when the gator, the bad CGI gator, is out and about, that’s great! That’s what we’re here for! That’s what we came here to see! You get exactly what was advertised! The rest then feels like a really professionally shot YouTube sketch that realistically gets nowhere near where this film could have gone in just fifty-eight minutes.
Once you get into that part of every Full Moon movie where the boobs come out and the gore and the comedy begins - the second half - it gets okay (and I mean just okay) beyond the mind-numbingly baffling decisions these characters make like NOT GETTING IN THE CAR WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT or not realizing you have so much alcohol you could Molotov it, but the ending we actually get is so stupid I feel like they wrote themselves into a corner and this was their best solution. It’s an embarrassing reflection on a man who was once a semi-notable film producer. Band could easily be, or perhaps already is, the closest modern thing we have to another Corman - and as it stands with films like these that’s struggling with the balance of being both derogatory and complimentary.
And at least splurge on the rights to a cover of “Maneater” for God’s sake!
The big takeaway I had from Bad CGI Gator is that I don’t think Charles Band and his team entirely gets Gen Z. He’s in his early seventies running one of the long running but small movie studios, so surely he must have some Gen Z presence on set or in the office right? He gets the stereotypes - we all wanna be influencers and act like we care about the world and people around us but truly we’re selfish college-age dumb party animals - but maybe that’s all you need when you’re supposed to be making a movie about a titular bad CGI alligator. The dialogue Zalman Band (Charles’s son) writes is abysmal, made as if he is thinking of 90s frat kids rather than actual Gen Z - baffling, considering he was born in 1995 and is not that far off from the generation in question. It’s performative at best and it feels cringe at worst, and it usually leans towards worst.
I like the characters of Sam and Hope. I think that’s intentional on Band’s part. And when the gator, the bad CGI gator, is out and about, that’s great! That’s what we’re here for! That’s what we came here to see! You get exactly what was advertised! The rest then feels like a really professionally shot YouTube sketch that realistically gets nowhere near where this film could have gone in just fifty-eight minutes.
Once you get into that part of every Full Moon movie where the boobs come out and the gore and the comedy begins - the second half - it gets okay (and I mean just okay) beyond the mind-numbingly baffling decisions these characters make like NOT GETTING IN THE CAR WHEN YOU’RE RIGHT NEXT TO IT or not realizing you have so much alcohol you could Molotov it, but the ending we actually get is so stupid I feel like they wrote themselves into a corner and this was their best solution. It’s an embarrassing reflection on a man who was once a semi-notable film producer. Band could easily be, or perhaps already is, the closest modern thing we have to another Corman - and as it stands with films like these that’s struggling with the balance of being both derogatory and complimentary.
And at least splurge on the rights to a cover of “Maneater” for God’s sake!