On an island in the Everglades, a DEA agent and a local sheriff team up with locals to hunt down a giant alligator on meth.[3]
Production
In February 2023, the day of the release of Cocaine Bear, The Asylum announced the film on Twitter under the working title of Attack of the Meth Gator.[2][4][5] The next day, in a Tweet by The Asylum featuring a video of cast members complaining about the fictional titular alligator, it was confirmed that filming had completed on February 25.[6] At the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that the film had been renamed from Attack of the Meth Gator to simply Meth Gator.[7]
Inspiration
Meth Gator is loosely inspired by reports from 2019 that a Tennessee police department publicly discouraged the flushing of methamphetamine down toilets due to the possibility that alligators could ingest the drug, creating hyper-aggressive "meth gators".[4][5][8] At the time of the reports, Kent Vliet, an alligator biologist at the University of Florida, denied the existence of so-called meth gators, stating that it was a "ridiculous notion".[9]
Release
Meth Gator was released on DVD by High Fliers Films on March 25, 2024,[10] and released digitally and in theaters on August 2.[3][11][12]
