'Gator Bait

Amos Moses, eatcher damn heart out.

A 1974 exploitation film starring Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings. The story follows a gorgeous Louisiana poacher named Desiree as she runs from the local sheriff, his inept deputy son, the mean and nasty patriarch of the Bracken family, and his two dumb-as-mud hillbilly kin after being framed for murder. The movie was sold on the idea of seeing Jennings run around in cutoffs but there's a number of squirm inducing scenes of attempted rape. A sequel was made in 1988 called 'Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice, with 100% less Claudia Jennings[1] and 300% more hairspray.

Tropes used in 'Gator Bait include:
  • Action Girl: Desiree is easily the most capable character in the film.
  • Artistic License: Biology: For a guy who was supposedly castrated Leroy is an awfully horny fellow.
  • B-Movie: You bet.
  • Brother-Sister Incest: Almost happens until Pa Bracken breaks it up with a bullwhip.
  • Corrupt Hick: Billy Boy.
  • Deep South: The film takes place in a Louisiana swamp.
  • Does Not Like Shoes: Desiree spends the entire film barefoot.
  • Eighties Hair: The sequel.
  • Fan Service: Claudia Jennings in cut offs was obviously intended as this.
  • Fetish Fuel: It's an exploitation film, and they cast a Playboy Playmate. Of course it's this.
  • Gorn: Julie is shot in the vagina at point blank range while being raped.
  • Jerkass: TJ Bracken uses a bullwhip to keep his boys in line. In his defense, however, they are both stupid as hell.
  • Narm: Jennings' attempt at a Cajun accent.
  • Only Sane Man: Sheriff Joe Bob is the only person in the hunting party who tries to use logic.
  • Secret Other Family: TJ Bracken is Desiree's real father.
  • Too Dumb to Live: When a bag of snakes gets thrown into his boat, Billy Boy tries to shoot them. Guess what happens. Also, Pete and Leroy Bracken by default.
  • The Voiceless: Desiree's kid brother was born without a tongue.
  1. ↑ Who had been killed in an auto accident in 1979 and was thus unavailable.
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