Gator Green is the fourth Jim Van Bebber short film in the extras on Arrow's excellent blu-ray release of the cult classic "Deadbeat by Dawn", it is also the most recent by nineteen years. Some crazy Vietnam veterans have a bar on a Florida alligator farm. A hippy looking drug dealer and his girlfriend go there to sell some gear but are kidnapped and fed to the 'gators. Apparently this was intended to be a feature length movie but fourteen minutes is all that it came to, and a fun and gory 14 minutes it is too! Van Babber once again acts as well as directs, in the commentary option he is keen to point out that real alligators were used, no rubber one or CGI, and in some scenes they do get VERY close! He also had to stunt double the one girl because he was the only one on set that could drive the VW Beetle because it had a gear stick, and despite what the other review claims blackface was NOT used, the actor was of mixed race. My least favourite of the four JVB shorts but still enjoyable.
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Jim Vanbebbers' GATOR GREEN is GARBAGE,a Point of Contention for the Late HEIDI MARTINUZZI
zet169924 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
GATOR GREEN is GARBAGE. This JIM VANBEBBER "Short" uses a White actor in the racist minstrel style BLACK FACE makeup. Jim Vanbebber Tries to Mimic Robert Mitchum as Max Cady in CAPE FEAR,but DRASTICALLY misses the mark,and comes up with a Campy "performance". No story here unless you count the Cliché 70's ABSURD "Deranged Vietnam Veteran" genre,which went OUT with "Disco" a LONG time ago.GATOR GREEN makes "Plan 9 from outer space" look like "Gone With The Wind",it's THAT bad.The Alligator used here is a Prop that wobbles around like "Jello" sitting on the wing of a 747 Aircraft.Vanbebber,incoherently mumbles to the Rubber gator throughout the short film,and it's been reported that an official from the local Florida Mental Health agency was busy doing research on Life imitating Art. This review contains SPOILERS but be warned...there's NOTHING to Spoil. GATOR GREEN was a "point of contention" for the LATE HEIDI MARTINUZZI who slaved as a caterer on this "Short" while making pasta on a daily basis,her last job in Schlock Cinema.
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