Repligator is a low budget 1996 American sci-fi comedy sexploitation horror film produced and directed by Bret McCormick (The Abomination) from a screenplay by Keith Kjornes (The Devil’s Tomb). It stars Gunnar Hansen (‘Leatherface’ in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; Mosquito), Keith Kjornes, Randy Clower, TJ Myers, Carl Merritt and ‘scream queen‘ Brinke Stevens.
A top secret military experiment turns burly soldiers into sexy nymphomaniac babes who then turn into alligators when they reach orgasm.
“This isn’t a movie made for the serious cineaste, but rather for those who enjoy the simple things bad, low budget movies can and so often do provide instead of any sort of artistic merit: cheap lingerie, fake boobs, real boobs, dinosaur alligator face masks, zombies (?), horrible optical effects, bad science, characters with horrible names like Dr. Goodbody and Colonel Sanders, and bad, trashy jokes galore. Nobody involved in this project was taking it seriously, that much is obvious, so there’s no need for anyone else to take it seriously either – because once you do that, the movie becomes an endurance test.” Ian Jane, DVD Talk
“It was pretty bad. Awful, actually. It was physically painful to watch the actors deliver their lines as though they’d eaten an entire jar of peanut butter and chased it with a sleeve of Saltines – fumbled, stilted, or just awkward. The writer, Keith Kjornes who also played Dr. Oliver, threw in every comedic trope, meme, joke, routine, or homage he could think of. It was like watching the Three Stooges act out a Scooby-Doo episode with the scripts from the worst Star Trek episodes.” Peggy Christe, Cinema Head Cheese
