The Louisiana swamps suffers from people being attacked there and the police have no idea of what's going on so they send in a biologist and a local coroner to start investigate what could be the cause for these attacks. They find out that a group of genetically engineered Chinese snakeheads are responsible and now they have become the prey. They later end up at a houseboat village in the deep swamp where they meet other locals and together they have to fight for their survival against the monster fishes.
I really wanted to like this movie and probably went into it with much higher expectations than I should of had. The biggest reason also for watching a movie like this is because you actually wanna see the so-called Frankenfish but unfortunately you don't get to see too much of him.
And with a title like that you can't really take it too seriously so you expect it to at least be fun or gory but it turned out to be neither of those. Add some crappy actors to that and the end result doesn't come out too good.
The story is ok but what they've made out of it is not ok at all. It could have been a really gory and entertaining movie but it fails miserably to deliver.
There are a few cool scenes when they get attacked by the monster fishes but all in all that does not make up for the whole movie. The actors are crap and not belivable at all and brings everything down way too much for one to being able to enjoy what's going on.
The swamp of course makes for a nice enviroment and the actual Frankenfish looks really cool but even though we get to see it we don't get to see enough of it. It's somewhat ok entertainment for one and a half hour if you're really bored, just don't go in expecting too much.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Bayou
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Mark A.Z. Dippé
WRITING CREDITS: Simon Barrett, Scott Clevenger
GENRE: Horror, Action
CAST: Tory Kittles, China Chow, Matthew Rauch
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 84 min
RATING: 4/10
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