Up next from Epic Pictures’ horror label DREAD is the alligator horror movie Gator Face, and our friends over at Rue Morgue just debuted the film’s official trailer this week.
Gator Face will be released on Digital outlets on September 15, 2026.
Watch the official trailer below, which features the same Rudyard Kipling poem that was used to great effect by the official trailer for 28 Years Later. It doesn’t work quite as well here and it feels like we should probably let 28 Years Later have that one to itself, but I digress.
In the upcoming creature feature Gator Face, “A Florida vacation becomes a blood-soaked fight for survival when a group of friends are hunted through the swamps by a savage cult that feeds its victims to ravenous alligators in the name of an ancient reptilian god.”
Amariah Dionne, Tabitha Brownstone, Scot Scurlock, and Nikolas Kolasinski star.
Padraig Reynolds directed Gator Face.
The team previews, “Blending creature horror, slasher thrills and Southern folklore, Gator Face takes an old-school approach to bringing its central threat to the screen. Reynolds and his filmmaking team shot with live alligators and relied on practical gore and in-camera effects rather than CGI or AI, grounding the film’s more extreme moments in the physical environment of the Florida swamps. The result embraces the tactile, unpredictable quality of classic creature features while creating a mythology of its own around the mysterious figure of Gator Face.”
“I grew up loving creature features where what you were seeing on screen felt real, and that was something I wanted to capture with Gator Face,” Reynolds said in a statement to Rue Morgue. “Shooting in the Florida swamps, using practical effects and working with real alligators gave us an atmosphere and unpredictability we never could have manufactured. We wanted to make a fun, frightening horror film that combines a cult, Southern folklore and a very real predator into something audiences can experience together.”
