Swamps, a hungry cult, and alligators trained on fear are the ingredients of "Gator Face," a 2026 horror thriller directed by Padraig Reynolds.
What is Gator Face about?
A group of friends heading into the Florida wetlands for what starts as an ordinary getaway soon find themselves stalked through the swamp by a cult that treats the surrounding alligators as instruments of an ancient reptilian god. What begins as a vacation narrows quickly into a survival ordeal, with the group forced to read the terrain itself as a threat: every stretch of water, every patch of reeds, becomes a place the cult could be waiting or an alligator could be closer than it looks. Reynolds keeps the horror grounded in the physical menace of the setting rather than leaning purely on the supernatural angle of the cult's belief, so the swamp itself functions almost as another antagonist stalking the group alongside the people hunting them.
About the cast
Amariah Dionne and Tabitha Brownstone lead the ensemble of friends caught in the swamp, with Nicholas Kolasinski, Barron Regan, Ellie Shaddix, Iain Smith, and Scot Scurlock filling out the cast on both sides of the hunt.
Context & significance
"Gator Face" sits in a long tradition of American backwoods horror that turns a specific regional landscape, in this case the Florida swamps, into the source of its dread rather than treating it as scenery. The cult angle gives the film a ritual, almost folk-horror logic underneath its creature-feature surface, framing the alligators less as random predators and more as instruments of belief. That combination of survival thriller and cult horror lets the film shift registers, moving between the immediate physical danger of the swamp and the slower unease of realizing the friends are being deliberately hunted rather than simply lost.
Watching Gator Face on Ktime
"Gator Face" streams on K-Time with a free account login, available with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles built into the K-Time catalog for Persian-speaking viewers. The Farsi interface covers browsing, search, and track selection, so switching between dub and subtitle options takes a single tap before pressing play.