Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!
Kristy Swanson
as Rachel McDaniel
Robert Davi
as Sheriff Watson
D. B. Sweeney
as Charlie
Wade Boggs
as Deputy Stanley
Sophie Sinise
as Krystal
Jason Rogel
as Martin
Jeff Chase
as Swamp Thing
Christopher Berry
as Deputy Mandling
Richard Tanne
as Tyler
Gary Catona
as Red Neck
Charles Harrelson
as Noah
Lo Graham
as Laura
