The Flood (2023) Movie Review

 In the food, a group of prison guards and prisoners are at the center of a gigantic flood. As they try to navigate that, a horde of monstrous alligators comes after all of them. 

The gore and camp are among the best parts of this horror movie. Unfortunately, nothing else about the film works any wonders on me or its intended audience audience. 

The CGI alligators look ugly as opposed to scary, and I doubt I’d ever understand the choice to have the alligators lean into the uncanny valley of bayou animals, This isn’t helped by a cast of characters that is undercooked and reductive at best. 

None of the performances (even the most sympathetic one; Starship Troopers veteran [pun partially intended] Casper Van Dien) are on an effective wavelength; clearly it had to be a paycheck job if anything at all. This also isn’t helped by a script that does none of these ragtag characters (not even the Sheriff, who should be the center of the movie) any justice. 

This movie wasn’t very effective for any reason, but the gore can be fun to watch. The gators may be fake, but the blood is more convincing than they are. 

All around it seems like just a run-of-the-mill horror movie without an effective conclusion, cast, or monsters. It may appeal to select horror fans of camp or whatever, but it didn’t work for me or the people I watched it with (for the record: these people are more vivid characters than the gators or film’s characters can hope to me).