Plot Synopsis:
The film opens up with two men, Frank (Robert Blush) and his buddy, Tillman (Michael McCoy), who are collecting water samples from the lake. As Tillman, puts his hand in the water to collect his final water sample, he is suddenly pulled down into the lake by something big and ferocious. When he rises above the surface, his hand has been bitten off and starts screaming for help. As Tillman tries to swim up to Frank, he is then pulled all the way down into the lake and all that's left of him are the remains of Tillman's severed right arm that Frank was holding on to try to get him into the boat (we don't see in the beginning that Tillman was actually being pulled down and eaten by one of the crocodiles).
Later on, we meet Sheriff Riley (John Schneider) and his son, Scott (Chad Collins). Sheriff Riley receives a radio transmission on his walkie-talkie about the incident that occurred with Frank and Tillman on the lake and goes out to investigate what happened. He first goes to the Police Department where Frank is there to deliver the news about what happened to Tillman on the lake. By proving his statement true, Frank brings Riley into a morgue and shows him Tillman's severed arm, leading him into believing Frank's explanation. Soon enters Sheriff Riley's ex-wife, Emily (Sarah Lafleur) and the three go out to the place where the incident happened on the lake to see if there's anymore evidence of Tillman's unknown death.
As they go through the lake, Emily sees an old house right across from them. According to Riley, that's the house where *Crazy* Sadie Bickerman, supposedly the sister of Delores Bickerman played by Betty White from the original, lives. Sheriff Riley also reveals to Frank and Emily that "...she used to feed live cattle to a couple of 40-foot prehisotric crocs she kept in her backyard." The detail of Sadie Bickerman as told by Riley leads Frank into believing that there actually was a crocodile who killed Tillman, but Emily refuses to believe that there are any crocodiles living on the lake. A few seconds later, Sheriff Riley stops the boat because Emily sees *something* in the water. When she goes down and retrieves it, it appears to be Tillman's head. Now, Frank enlists everybody that there is a crocodile out there, but Emily still refuses to believe him. To find out what is really going on, Riley takes the trio over to *Crazy Sadie's* house for information.
As we go to the next scene, we see three campers, Mike (Vlado Mihaylov), Sharon (Yana Marinova) and Edie (Zhasmina Toskova) that are unpacking and are ready to go swimming in the lake. We cut back to where Riley, Emily and Frank finally arriving at Sadie's house. We get to meet Sadie (Cloris Leachman). As Emily and Riley try to ask her about the incident that happened or if she knows if there are any crocodiles on the lake, she refuses to answer and tells them to get off her property. Frank, still concerned, feels that Sadie knows something and doesn't want to tell it to them, so the three once again go out on the lake and investigate some more to look for anymore evidence.
When they leave, we cut back to the scene with Mike unpacking the girls' tents and sleeping bags, while Sharon and Edie are both paroding around in the lake (they are both naked). Mike tells them that he's going to come in and take a swim. As he's getting ready, one of the crocodiles emerges and kills both Sharon and Edie. Mike turns around and sees the girls are gone. Looking all over to see where they are, Mike sees one of the girls' bathing suits that surfaced from the lake that's saturated in blood. When he turns around again, he is then killed by the same crocodile.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Riley's son, Scott has left home to take a little walk in the forest. As he's walking, he is introduced to Kerri (Alicia Ziegler) and her friend, Thad (Ian Reed Kessler) and is invited to a camp overnight with the two and their other friends, Rachel and Larry. As they leave to go to the campsite, Sadie has a guest over, Cal Miner (Jonas Talkington). Miner wants Sadie to tell him everything that Riley and Emily said to her. Sadie then starts pointing out to a group of white perch jumping up and down in the lake and tells Miner that she promised she'd get him a *snack*. As she leaves, Miner is standing towards the edge of the dock and sees something big moving against the white perch and that something approaches Cal, thereby killing him off Sadie's dock. When Sadie returns with a tray of fingerfoods, she sees Cal is no longer on the dock because, as Sadie proclaims, "I guess he really wasn't hungry." and goes back into the house.
We then see Sheriff Riley, Emily and Frank still looking for evidence on the lake and as Frank is knocked off the boat and into the water, accidentally by Riley, one of the crocodiles approaches them and eventually, destroys their boat. Luckily, Riley, Emily and Frank are able to swim back to shore in one piece. Now on shore, they see a plane hovering over the lake and has landed into the area. We see the men getting out of the plane, big-game animal hunter, Struthers (Sam McMurray) and his bodyguard, Ahmad (Joe Holt), saying that they got a tip from Miner that there might be something worth killing in the lake. So, the two join forces with Riley, Emily and Frank and start to make a campsite, figuring out what to do now that they've just seen one of the crocodiles in the lake.
Later on, we see Scott, Kerri and Thad with their two other friends, Rachel (VJ Kewl) and Larry (Justin Urich) arriving at the campsite. Larry, Thad and Kerri all decide to go for a swim in the lake, while Rachel stays behind to get a good sun tan and Scott goes out for another walk in the forest. Meanwhile, Struthers, Riley, Ahmad, Frank and Emily have set up camp and decided that they're going to trap the crocodile alive. With the help of Riley's deputy, Davis (Terence H. Winkless), they decide to lure the crocodile in by placing a turtle into a net, so the crocodile could come in and eat the turtle, therefore trapping him in the net. Unfortunately, a wild boar has gotten itself trapped and Riley tries to push it away using a stick. On his last push, the crocodile then comes in and consumes the entire boar. Riley steps back and uses a tranquilizer gun to put the croc to sleep. Moments later, we the croc coming out of the bushes to the front of where the six are standing. Davis gets a rope to put around the crocodile's mouth, but unfortunately, the croc breaks free of the rope and eventually kills both Davis and Frank.
Emily, now smitten because of the loss of their two friends, agrees with Struthers plan to hunt down and kill the crocodile from killing anymore individuals. We then cut back to where Scott is still walking in the forest. As he's walking, he witnesses a mother crocodile nest, and goes back to the campsite to enlist everyone to come and see the nest. Kerri and Thad agree to go with him, while Rachel and Larry decide to stay back at the campsite. Meanwhile, Ahmad has gotten together a boat equipped with a harpoon and a dead boar, to use as bait and the four now set out to hunt down and kill the crocodile. Back at the campsite, Larry is swimming in the lake, not knowing that another crocodile is swimming right below him. Larry looks behind and sees only Kerri's dog, Daisy in the water. As Daisy starts swimming away, Rachel, believing that she's talking to Larry, tells Larry to stay away from her feet. But when Larry looks towards Rachel, he screams out, "Rachel, that's not me!", and Rachel then looks in front of her and sees the crocodile. Larry quickly gets out of the water and tries to save Rachel from being eaten by the crocodile. Despite his weak strength, Rachel is dragged by the crocodile and pulled into the lake, concluding that the crocodile had killed Rachel. Larry screams for help and abandons the campsite to go and find Scott, Kerri and Thad in the forest.
As Ahmad and Struthers are getting everything ready, Ahmad says to Struthers that they may not leave the lake because, according to him, the crocodiles are "...real big, real smart..fast on water and on land." But Struthers says they shouldn't worry. His plan is to make the crocodile wait itself out on shore, hull it in over empty lines, get one clean shot and it's over. Struthers assures ahmad that everyone will be fine. Meanwhile, Scott, Kerri and Thad have all arrived at the crocodile nest and Kerri and Thad discover a group of eggs inside the nest. Scott tells them to put the eggs back in the nest, despite not knowing exactly what kind of egg it is. Kerri agrees to put hers back while Thad, acting in a joking matter, throws his into a tree. Now, Scott and Thad begin to argue that whatever laid the eggs would hurt them. Kerri steps in and breaks up the fight between the two. Thad starts heading back to the nest after feeling rejected by Kerri's statement and breaks another crocodile egg. While he's speaking sarcastically towards Kerri and Scott, another crocodile, the mother, appears from behind the nest and sees that Thad disturbed her nest. Kerri tries to warn Thad that there's a giant crocodile behind him, but he refuses to believe her. As she tells him that she's not kidding, he starts believing that she thinks he's an idiot. Thad then turns around after pretending to be crying that there is a giant crocodile behind him, and the mother crocodile subsequently emerges and kills Thad. Scott and Kerri, both stricken with fear, run into the forest, where they hope to find a secure hiding place to prevent them from being eaten by the crocodile.
Meanwhile, Riley, Ahmad, Struthers and Emily begin to track the crocodile down. Riley and Ahmad are in the boat tracking the croc on the lake, Emily is on shore with a rifle, transmitting device and tracking equipment to let Riley and Ahmad know when and where the crocodile is coming from and Struthers is hovering ahead in his plane right above Ahmad and Riley. Despite Emily's assurances, the tracking equipment that Ahmad assembled proves faulty, providing only little coverage for everyone. Suddenly, the crocodile grabs the dead boar with its mouth and Ahmad finally shoots the harpoon at it. Hoping that the harpoon will let the crocodile drown in enough time, Struthers begins to proceed down to strike the crocodile when it comes back up to the surface. Unfortunately, Emily appears to have lost the crocodile's position again, and everyone now starts growing worrily. As Sheriff Riley looks around, he sees the croc swim back up to the surface and Ahmad is ready with the second harpoon, but Struthers tells him that he gets the *kill shot*, and an argument begins to form over the two. As the crocodile approaches Riley and Ahmad, Ahmad tries to shoot the second harpoon at it, but unavoidably, Struthers' plane gets in the way of Ahmad's aim, and the harpoon is shot into one of the sides of Struther's landing floaters. Riley and Ahmad then manage to abandon the boat before it is destroyed by Struthers' plane and Struthers falls out of the bottom of his plane before it is destroyed by flying off by itself and crashing into the forest. With Struthers treading water in the lake, the crocodile starts approaching him. Ahmad steps in, wielding a machete and begins to stab the crocodile, but it throws Ahmad off its face and onto shore. Emily comes in now, armed with the rifle and begins shooting at the crocodile. As the crocodile starts moving closer towards Emily, despite having only shot the croc three times, Ahmad is able to save her by stabbing the crocodile's palatal valve with the machete, thereby, killing the crocodile.
With the crocodile finally killed, the group sets up camp and goes to rest for the night after a hard day's work. While Struthers has difficulties getting his tent set up, another crocodile comes out of the lake and proceeds towards the campsite, with everyone asleep in their tents. Meanwhile, Scott and Kerri have managed to cover up enough ground in the forest. not knowing where they are or where they're going, Scott tells Kerri that they should try to find a good hiding place.