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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies   Repligator (1996)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   I resisted this movie for years when I saw it on the video store shelf every time I browsed the psychotronic movies selection, but I eventually succumed to the promise of the cover that shows a woman in a bikini with an alligator head holding a ray gun. What could possibly go wrong with that setup? I find it hard to resist movies where people turn into reptiles, but of course, this one turned out to be worse than advertised, with not much shape-shifting into alligators, and no alligator-headed bikini models! Talk about a let down. We see more bare breasts that beasts, including a pair that are viewed through a pair of x-ray glasses. The plot is so absurd that it's hardly worth mentioning, but I'll try, since I want to somewhow justify wasting 80 minutes of my life on it. and no, there are no real alligators in it. At a not-so-secret military base in Texas (it's identified by a road sign) people with names like General Mills, Colonel Sanders, Dr. Kildare, and Dr. Goodbody are creating weapons for the military. One is a sexual hologram interface terminal that makes movies out of someone's sex fantasies. (I think I'd rather watch that movie instead!) Another is a mind control machine used for brainwashing. And a third is a replicator, an organic digital replication genetic coding scrambler, that we are told works like the Star Trek transporter - it dis-assembles a human into digital computer data then re-assembles the person. But this machine doesn't work the way it's supposed to work - it turns men into women. Somehow, two or three of the machines get combined, and the brainwash machine is modified by it's mad sccientist creator to turn women into "rampant nymphomaniac" slaves. Why you ask? Obviously because he wants to create an army of nymphomaniac soldiers that only he can control. Who doesn't? One they are re-assembled, the women's intelligence is increased significantly, but with the side effect that they turn into alligators, or "gator babes" after they have sex with human men, which, because they are "nymphomaniacs," they do immediately. One guy who is killed by a nympho gator babe turns into a gay zombie for no apparent reason I could determine. Then things get really crazy after one of the re-assembled nympho pre-gator babes invents a portable replicator ray gun. I guess that's where the cover came from, but we still never see it. The alligator costumes (just heads mostly) are not going to win any awards for costuming or special effects and they look nothing like the head on the cover. But the whole movie is played as comedy, so realistic costumes would be totally out of place. Fortunately, the movie is never once meant to be frightening or thrilling in the least, it's only meant to be funny and titillating. Unfortunately, it's neither.