23. FOR PEAT’S SAKE: Log one that takes place in a swamp or a bog.

Danny (John White, who would become the direct to video Stifler in the American Pie sequels), Phil (Dan Warry-Smith) and Angel (Charlotte Sullivan) live in a swamp where every kid talks about Gator Face. After a summer of having to behave, they decide to make a costume, dress up as the monster and prank the entire neighborhood. Then the National Guard gets called in. That’s when the friends learn that Gator Face is real and a part of the swamp.

Directed by Vic Sarin and written by David Covell, Alan Mruvka and Sahara Riley, this aired on Showtime and if I was the right age for it, I would have been obsessed by this movie. At the end, when Gator Face gives his life up to save Danny? I would have cried my eyes out. When the swamp saves Gator Face? I don’t know if I had that many years as a child.

This may be the most innocent swamp horror film that I’ve ever watched. I mean, I’m used to humanoids rising up during salmon festivals and violently assaulted women who later give birth to their clammy children.

You can watch this on Tubi.