Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

moonspinner55 Strange, sexy girl down south--the subject of tall tales among the horny redneck locals--lives with her sister and tongue-less brother in a small cabin on swampland; after a sloppy deputy shoots his buddy while trying to capture the elusive female, he blames the killing on her, causing the sheriff and the dead kid's dirty brood to go after the girl and her family in vengeance. Paltry low-budgeter for drive-ins and grindhouse crowds seems to take its cue from the hillbillies in "Deliverance". The mechanics of the plot are old-hat but they still work--we want to see these 'good ol' boys' gets their comeuppance--but if the swamp atmosphere is captured at all it was probably by accident. The motorboat action scenes are familiar and unexciting, while the movie's primary emphasis is on rape. *1/2 from ****

Wizard-8 This southern drive-in movie was apparently a big hit more than forty years ago, but I have a feeling that many viewers at the time probably felt a bit let down by what they saw. I think viewers watching the movie today will feel even more let down than viewers in the 1970s. They will probably be expecting star Claudia Jennings to show off her "attributes" a lot, but as it turns out, she only gives us a couple of (very) brief glimpses in the opening few minutes, and that's it. Jennings' Cajun accent is pretty lousy, which may explain why she is given what seems to be less than three dozen words of dialogue in the entire movie. Because of her limited dialogue, it's hard to warm up to her character and root her on as she seeks vengeance. It also doesn't help that the quest for vengeance is REALLY slow. There's only about a half hour or so of plot here, and the padding is relentless. Some good action scenes would have helped, but none of the action is particularly engaging. The scenery looks nice and authentic, and there is a pretty good musical score, both of which will help viewers not to fall asleep - barely. Somehow I don't think that the belated sequel (without Jennings) is any better in quality, so I'd suggest you skip that as well.

Coventry The answer to that riddle would be at least more than five, as the male lead characters are clearly too retarded to accomplish anything... Ah, 70's exploitation of the trashiest kind; you hate to love it and 'Gator Bait is unquestionably one of the most rancid, gratuitous and shameless examples available on film. The basic concept of this movie shows a lot of potential and ingenuity, yet the makers didn't seem to care the least bit about that and exclusively contemplated about ways to make the movie even more sleazy and exploitative. Obviously inspired by the success of "Deliverance", judging by the outback setting, the character drawings and the massive overload of banjo-music, 'Gator Bait is a simplistic story about murder & retribution starring the luscious former Playmate-of-the-year Claudia Jennings as a poaching wildcat versus a sleazy bunch of Cajun rednecks. When the cowardly son of Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas frames Desiree for a murder he accidentally committed, a quintet of sniveling weirdies goes into the swamp to arrest her. But when the sexually frustrated hicks then also barbarically kill her younger sister, Desiree prepares from some old-fashioned Cajun justice. The directors' duo Beverly and Ferd Sebastian clearly enjoyed filming Claudia Jennings whilst she bend over in her boat during her poaching activities, but they totally neglected the swamp's potential as a moody setting full of death traps and dangerous animal threats. Despite the exhilarating title, I only saw two alligators and, moreover, not even in action! Desiree's killing spree is monotonous, uninspired and even quite boring and – naturally – every move of her opponents is incredibly predictable. They're typical hillbillies, with names like Billy Boy and Leroy, with incestuous tendencies and trigger-happy gunshot fingers. 'Gator Bait is irredeemably bad, but at the same time charming and a must for feminists. Yeeeeeeeeee Haaaw!

Woodyanders The irrepressible Claudia Jennings is her usual affable, fiery, smolderingly sensual self as Desiree, a spunky Cajun alligator poacher who's falsely accused of murder by a cretinous clan of vile sexist hillbilly male scuzzbuckets. Worse yet, these detestable rednecks rape and kill Desiree's little sister as well. Naturally, Desiree fights back, using her raw cunning and feminine wiles to exact a harsh revenge on her hateful tormentors. Claudia's perky, pulchritudinous presence always enlivened any given 70's drive-in exploitation feature she appeared in, which is definitely the case here. However, Claudia ain't the whole show: the formidable Bill Thurman plays a corrupt, treacherous sheriff with his usual enthralling solemnity, Janet ("Ruby," "Humongous") Baldwin is cute and endearing as Claudia's adorable younger sister, Sam Gilman hams it up deliciously as the nasty father of the no-account hayseed family, the marshy bayou backwoods setting is vividly rendered, and the mush-mouthed Lee Darwin energetically belts out a bunch of dippy, banjo-plucking country and western songs on the oddly infectious soundtrack. Cheap, dumb and tawdry, but done with a certain breezy'n'cheesy élan, "'Gatorbait" rates as perfectly enjoyable low-budget down-home trash.