I found this pretty average sy-fy/horror weirdly captivating and unlike some quite comical in parts.The alligators mostly didn't look particularly realistic to me though. The original premise of chucking toxic blue moonshine into the river and that creating mutant alligators was promising, also had a synchronising with the blue meth in Breaking Bad for me. Then, when that went on to alligator bites turning humans into alligators it foreshadowed Christopher Berry going on to make an iconic appearance in The Walking Dead.Highlight for me was the much underrated Christopher Berry (The Walking Dead & Free State of Jones) looking particularly cute, until he turned gator. I know I shouldn't have, but I howled with laughter when he threw the dog into the gator's mouth.I have watched this film 3 times now and it just gets better and better, hence I have revised my rating and my review accordingly. I honestly believe this will eventually become a cult classic.

If you want a serious movie don't watch this one. If you want fun and entertainment without having to do too much thinking this one is for you. One of the better SyFy B-flicks I've seen in a while and I love me some SyFy B-flicks. Yes its campy and the effects could of been better but there is worse out there. If you're a Lake Placid fan (the SyFy ones not part 1) then this is definitely worth watching. Bonus is that Jordan Hinson from Eureka (Zoe) is in it which makes it worth watching. The acting isn't too terrible and the story could use a little more omph. But the premise for the movie is original and comedic. Not a lot of gore which is good if you're not into buckets and buckets of blood and guts. One of the better monster/animal horror movies that SyFy has put out. Better than Piranahconda and Sharktopus.

I read GL84's nine star review and he is an idiot. This is another stupid Syfy movie. First how can bad moonshine mutate gators and not other species? Then there is the Romeo and Juliet aspect between two feuding families. One guy is in love with the daughter of the other side. The mutated creatures can whip some kind of killer stuff with their tails plus have some red coloration that I guess is suppose to come from the moonshine. Hence the redneck gator part of the title, I guess. This moonshine of course comes from one to the two feuding families. Now the two feuding maybe lovers go looking for the problem and gee they find it. My isn't it amazing that their boat manages to start when they need to rescue some family? Lucien's wife is a real piece of work. I did love the plan of distraction the guy had when he threw the mutt to the gator. While not PC it was really funny. The Gator Whisperer is another idiot but gets his. Unfortunately his entire crew gets hammered before that happens. Of course the bites are toxic and here it gets Syfy stupid. It turns out the bit turns the bitee into gator clones and everything gets even more stupid from there. I was glad to see a black man as the sheriff and he didn't die first. This is just a stupid unbelievable plot.

I've probably seen a few dozen of these SyFy "original" movies now, and I've even reviewed a few here at IMDb. So I know you can't compare them to anything other than previous SyFy movies. The low budgets, grade C actors, crew and SFX are to be expected. Before this, I thought Alien Tornado and Sharktopus were about as bad as they got. I was mistaken.The director, Griff Furst, has done a number of these movies. Most recently, Ghost Shark, which only came out two weeks ago. I think the kindest thing I can say about his directing ability is "journeyman-like".Let me give you the short version of the silliness that is Ragin Cajun Redneck Gators. Two Cajun swamp-dwelling families are having a feud and one of the families makes some tainted moonshine and dumps it in the swamp. This mutates some alligators. If you get bit or scratched or eat the meat of mutant gators, you turn into one. Every member of the other family eat the mutant meat. Meanwhile, a la Romeo and Juliet, one young member of each family are in love with each other.Juliet's Cajun dad turns into a gator, but keeps his gold tooth, which is now a big gold gator fang (no explanation of how THAT happened, of course). Romeo and Juliet have sex, then Romeo turns into a gator too. Towards the end, the leaders of both clans have a duel. One has a shotgun, the other has a gold fang and a tail that shoots spikes. Both die. All the mutant gators are lured to a warehouse and blown up. Only one escapes- Romeo. Cut to a year later and Juliet comes out of her shack with her new baby. Romeo gator comes crawling up out of the swamp to join his wife and baby. The end. (One note here about actor Abbie Gayle, as "Bloody Girl". She wears blood extremely well, and runs off camera with grace and charm. Truly an Emmy-worthy performance.)Too many other crazy things went on to include here. Suffice it to say, it was all pretty ridiculous. Don't know where all the actors came from, but the accents in this thing were all over the map. This WAS a SyFy channel movie, so it got a two star rating from me because at least I could follow the story.Oh yes, and the mutant gators actually had red necks.