Frankenfish

Starring:Tory Kittles, K.D. Aubert, China Chow, Matthew Rauch, Donna Biscoe, Tomas Arana, Mark Boone Junior, Reggie Lee, Noelle Evans, Richard Edson, Muse Watson, Steve Ritzi, Ron Gural, Eugene Collier, Sean Patterson, Raoul Trujillo, Marco St. John
Director: Mark A.Z. DippÃ©
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Surprisingly Good River-Monster Horror - Take A Chance On This One
3.5 stars for this surprise of a movie...
some unexpected scenes
A Man Eater
A suprisingly good thriller

Frankenfish
Starring: Tory Kittles , K.D. Aubert , China Chow , Matthew Rauch , and Donna Biscoe
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002W4SBI
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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Surprisingly Good River-Monster Horror - Take A Chance On This One.......2007-03-31

No, despite the title, "Frankenfish" isn't a painful-to-watch monster spoof trying achingly hard to be both cool and funny but failing miserably at both. And despite what the title might also have you thinking, it's not a $10-budgeted filmed-in-the-basement-over-the-weekend student film. It's a surpsisingly well done, at times quite fierce, and thoroughly fun, blast of monster mayhem.

Set in the deep parts of the Florida everglades, the movie involves (as opposed to a re-animated fish swimming forth from a foreboding gothic castle) Chinese Snakeheads (real fish from China, piranha-like creatures who can live for a while on land and will even attack prey on land) who've been genetically engineered by a group of wealthy big-game hunters to grow to monsterous proportions, all the better for them to track down with their machine guns and grenade launchers during the pursuit of their 'sport'. A ship carrying the cargo gets caught in a massive storm and washed up the river into the Everglades where the beasties get free just in time for lunch. And, of course, the 'Frankenfish' have turned out even more lethal than their designers intended. This movie is far from a spoof but it is a little on the campy side, a little on the tongue-in-cheek side, and it's a reminder that, occasionally, a bit of the campy elements in a horror movie don't necessarily have to be a bad thing, as long as they don't go overboard.

The main protagonists in the film aren't the rich hunters. A Florida cop and an Everglades wildlife expert are dispatched into the rivers to do some investigation into the discovery of a washed-up and eaten-up corpse, and end up at a cluster of houseboats where people live year-round in the Everglades making a living off fishing in the rich swamps and streams. It's a likable cast that ends up as the fish's target for buffet of the day, and the bloody man vs. beast action sequences are better and more credible than you might think they'd be. The movie doesn't try to present its creatures as more dangerous than they could conceivably be (taking into account that a regular-sized chinese snakehead is a pretty intimidating little predator, let alone a six-foot one). Ergo, they're not presented as the harbingers of civilization's imminent collapse, but they are extremely dangerous to anyone on or remotely near to the waters they're in. It's like with "Jaws" - the shark wasn't taking down big ocean-liners but you sure didn't want to be out swimming or even on a small sailboat when he was nearby. The balance struck is right, the effects are solid and well-designed, and the whole movie surpasses what pretty well anyone likely thought it could be.

An allout winner and a must-see for fans of aquatic/swamp horror like "Piranha" and the "Anaconda" movies.

3.5 stars for this surprise of a movie..........2007-03-02

And i taught this movie would be boring,, cheap effects ...but i was
pleasantly surprise at how good the monster fishes looked and the way
they got and ate some of their victims... Ok, the acting was not top here,
but ive seen much worse lately.... I would say 85% of the movie is great, and the rest could have been better.....and wow...i love the ending...
For the creature movie crowd....this one must be seen.
Enjoy

some unexpected scenes.......2007-01-15

For a cheesey monster movie, it wasn't that bad, it had the 'anacondas' feel to it, but people were dropping like flies. also, it's rated R for "sexual content" it should say nudity, there are 2 farely long very innapropriate boob scenes. i was very shocked. So for that and that the writters weren't very creative and killed just about everybody off, I give it only 2 stars.

A Man Eater.......2007-01-10

My husband just loved the movie. He said he though about it hours later. The fish really scared him.

A suprisingly good thriller.......2006-09-15

I love when I am not expecting too much from a movie and get much more. A thriller from start to finish. The fish effects are very good and well and some of the things that happen with them are amazing. A very pleasant suprise, highly recommended.

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