Frankenfish

Customer Reviews:

Frankenfish.......2007-08-20

This was a good movie, I liked it. my sister and boyfriend enjoyed it to.

Mona

Bad Acting, Bad Plot, Digital Gore, and More - What's not to Like? .......2007-08-13

Living in the middle of a marsh isn't exactly the most loving atmosphere and some terrible things happen. The movie itself shows us how this could happen by showing us how fishing is sometimes done; apparently you put your hand in the water and stick it into mudhole, looking around with your fingers until something - hopefully a catfish - thinks the hand is a nice snack. The fisherfolk then picks up his prey, puts it in the boat, and takes it to his rsidence - in this movie the houses were floating homes located "up the river." But when a body washes up with marks on it that look like they are made by something much larger than an alligator, two people are sent in to look into the problem.
And the thing they find - they aren't exactly what you would call "friendly."

To get this out of the way, this movie is really low budget and isn't for the majority of viewing audiences. It was actually aired on the Sci-Fi channel when I first saw it, and I thought the ideas that it had were funny and the gore that kept the dynamic kicking were well worth my time. So, when I found the movie for a VERY cheap price, I looked into it and I saw more of the gore I liked and more laughs to be had. Admitedly, the laughs were not on purpose and the movie wasn't trying to keep me entertained in the way it did. But the bd acting, the "Frankenfish," the discombobulated storyline that dealt with weird people and weird relationships; that was what I was looking for when I was looking for entertainment.
So, I really do understand why people dislike movies like this BUT I hope the same can be said for the other half.

If you find the Sci-Fi channel's movies of the week entertaining, then this would be something you might find interesting. It has all the staples that a Sci-Fi movie normally does, and the DVD has a little more of the gore that Sci-Fi isn't willing to show. I'm not going to go and recomend this movie to anyone, either, because this is one of those things that a person knows they either have the taste for or that they don't.
Myself - I laugh everytime I see this title but most people I know don't shae my disposition.

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.

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