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{{Infobox film
| name = Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
| image = Crocodile2deathswamp.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = Gary Jones
| producer = [[Boaz Davidson]]<br />Frank DeMartini<br />Danny Dimbort<br />[[Avi Lerner]]<br />[[Trevor Short]]
| writer = Jace Anderson<br />Adam Gierasch
| story = [[Boaz Davidson]]
| starring = [[Heidi Lenhart]]<br />Chuck Walczak<br />Jon Sklaroff<br />[[David Valcin]]<br/>[[Martin Kove]]<br />Darryl Theirse
| music = Bill Wandel
| cinematography = [[Rasool Ellore]]<br>[[K. Prasad]]
| editing = Alison Learned Wolf
| studio = [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment]]
| distributor = [[Nu Image Films]]
| released = {{Film date|2002|08|01}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $2,200,000
| gross = 
}}

'''''Crocodile 2: Death Swamp''''',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gross |first1=G. Noel |title=Crocodile 2: Death Swamp |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/4291 |website=DVD Talk |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref> titled '''''Crocodile 2: Death Roll''''' when broadcast on TV, is a 2002 American [[horror film]] directed by [[Gary Jones (director)|Gary Jones]] and released directly to DVD on August 1, 2002. The film is a loose sequel to the 2000 film ''[[Crocodile (2000 film)|Crocodile]]''. Featuring the two surviving crocodiles from the first film. The plotline is about a group of criminals who board an airplane full of tourists with loot from a recent bank robbery. A violent storm compels the pilots to turn around, prompting the crooks to hijack the plane and keep it on course to Mexico. But the storm causes the plane to plummet into a swamp. Then the survivors—among them the robbers' sinister leader, Max (Darryl Theirse), and a flight attendant, Mia (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) -- are pursued by an enormous crocodile with an insatiable appetite.

==Plot==
After a bank robbery, four criminals try to escape to the village of Santo Cristo in Acapulco, but they hijack the plane when a storm requires the pilot to start to turn around. They force the pilot to continue flying. After the copilot struggles with one of the hijackers, the plane's instrument panel is destroyed and it crashes. Most of the passengers and one of the hijackers die in the crash. The criminals gather the remaining passengers, killing those too injured to be of use, and force the rest to haul their loot through the swamp to the town they need to reach to finish their escape. While they gather the loot, a crocodile suddenly emerges from the water and eats the pilot. The criminals empty three guns into it, killing it.

As they travel through the swamp, they start falling prey to the dead crocodile's furious 40-foot mother (Flat Dog, the crocodile from the [[Crocodile (2000 film)|first film]]). As the passengers struggle to survive against Flat Dog, the only hope for rescue is in the hands of Zach, the boyfriend of one of the stewardesses and a tracker he runs into a bar that he hires to search for the crashed plane. Max (leader of the terrorists) forces the tracker to leave Mia (the stewardess) and Zach behind. But during the flight, Roland (the tracker) grabs Max's gun and shoots Max in the chest, killing him. When Roland tries to turn back, his chopper is grabbed by Flat Dog. She leaves Roland to die in an explosion. Mia and Zach become the only survivors and kill Flat Dog by using a life boat's gasoline and lighting it with her lighter, resulting in Flat Dog blowing up.

At the end of the film, Mia and Zach are at a resort swimming. As Mia jumps in the water Flat Dog appears, she then wakes up with Zach, realizing that it was just a dream. A loud roar is heard as the camera zooms out the swamp, indicating either Flat Dog survived or there is another crocodile in the Swamp.

==Cast==
*[[Heidi Lenhart]] as Mia Bozeman
*[[Chuck Walczak]] as Zach Thowler
*[[Jon Sklaroff]] as Sol
*Darryl Theirse as Max
*[[David Valcin]] as Justin Reynolds
*[[James Parks (actor)|James Parks]] as Squid
*[[Martin Kove]] as Roland
*[[Steve Moreno]] as Brian Bigham
*[[Billy Rieck]] as Pete
*[[Anna Cranage]] as Julie Landon
*[[Dan Martin (actor)|Dan Martin]] as Pilot 
*[[Sean Euro]] as Sean

== Production ==
It was filmed in [[Ramoji Film City]] in [[Hyderabad]], India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/american-film-makers-in-ramoji-film-city/articleshow/24540902.cms|title=American film-makers in Ramoji Film City|date=8 October 2002|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=5 March 2025}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of killer crocodile films]]

==References==
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== External links ==

* {{IMDb title|0257510|Crocodile 2: Death Swamp}}

[[Category:2002 horror films]]
[[Category:Giant monster films]]
[[Category:American independent films]]
[[Category:American natural horror films]]
[[Category:Films set in Mexico]]
[[Category:Films set in swamps]]
[[Category:Films shot at Ramoji Film City]]
[[Category:Nu Image films]]
[[Category:Films about crocodilians]]
[[Category:2002 films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Gary Jones]]
[[Category:American sequel films]]
[[Category:Direct-to-video horror films]]
[[Category:Direct-to-video sequel films]]
[[Category:2002 English-language films]]
[[Category:2002 independent films]]
[[Category:2002 direct-to-video films]]
[[Category:Films produced by Boaz Davidson]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Boaz Davidson]]
[[Category:2002 American films]]
[[Category:English-language horror films]]
[[Category:English-language independent films]]

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