Frankenfish [HD]

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

That's a big fish!
I don't know what form of madness I suffer from that requires me to rent virtually every film from the "animals run amok" genre. Whatever it is, and such an illness ought to have a name, I'm currently passing through the advanced stages. I don't even bother reading a plot summary anymore when I see a DVD case with killer sharks, giant insects, or mutated monsters on the cover; I just rent the sucker immediately. It's likely--extremely, painfully likely--that the movie in question will stink. It goes without saying that the filmmakers lifted most of the plot from Spielberg's "Jaws." Doesn't matter. I'll still rent the movie in question and give it a watch. Such was the case with director Mark A.Z. Dippé's "Frankenfish." Just look at that cover! How could I resist such an alluring vision as that? If, for some reason, the cover is no longer visible, the case for "Frankenfish" shows two hapless looking people in water up to their waist in the foreground while a gigantic, ugly fish...

Frankenfish is actually not bad
Well lets see I walked through the video store and was hard pressed for time.Someone was talking an isle over about this movie to his girlfriend so I listened in.At first my eyes rolled then I thought it can't be that bad.....Or could it.After I began watching the first guy getting killed I stayed to see what happens next.If you liked Pirahna then you'd like this its total Roger Cormanish.It has alot of comic book feel to it and when the fish jumps and crawls on land its actually cool.The SNAKE HEAD fish can live on land.Its not a great movie but its good enough to watch again and again.Just a little recap on the story line. The police are baffled by a dead body and call on an expert for help.What they find lurking in the water is far more what they expected to see.These fish are a result in chemical altercation to make the hunting more enjoyable.The hunters become the hunted.I loved the ending too!

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