The Bayou
The Bayou
Vacation turns disaster when Houston grad, Kyle and her friends escape a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana everglades, only to discover there's something way more dangerous lurking in the shallows.
Mike Messier reviewedJuly 8, 2025
Don't watch The Bayou. Watch better versions of this story instead with Cocaine Bear (2023) or Crawl (2019).
Criminals cooking meth deep in the Louisiana Everglades spill their drugs into the river during an FBI raid causing the indigenous alligators to become all crazy and aggressive. Four college kids fly from Texas to Florida and their plane conveniently crashes in the exact spot where the meth gators reside. Chaos ensues. You don't make this "Meth Gator" movie unless it has one of two things to take your mind off the dumb story:
1. Laughably bad and funny on purpose (like Cocaine Bear)
2. Truly tension-filled with great special and practical effects (like Crawl).
The Bayou has neither. This was just a bad movie littered terrible acting, a script full of cheap convenient plot devices, and extremely poor lighting... Seriously the lighting is worse than Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (iykyk). I've seen SyFy original movies with better production value than this.