Frankenfish

First off let me say I love cheesy low budget horror movies that don't take themselves too seriously. In that respect this movie is great! Blood, Gore, Mutated fish, a crazy Vietnam vet, a drunken guy that steals the show (probably the best performance in a horror movie ever), and even some random boob action! A must have for low budget horror movie fans!

1) If you're alone, and miles from civilization, don't stick your finger and/or hand in murky water.
2) When going on a trip into the remote wilderness, there must be at least one hot woman (China Chow) on the trip.
2a) There is an inverse relationship between how bad the movie is, and how much clothing the woman has on.
2b) If the movie is very bad, then 2a) holds true...unless the hottie quotient is raised (which happens in Frankenfish)
2c) If the movie is REALLY bad, then there needs to be obvious T&A.
3) B-Actors may live, but it's a guarantee that C-Actors are going to die horrible, contrived deaths.
4) Whoever acts like a dick is going to learn a vicious lesson about karma.
5) At least on of the disgusting death scenes has to be completely hilarious (happened over 5 times in Frankenfish).
6) Bad acting is a must
7) There needs to be at least one "c'mon!" moment, in which the characters do something so stupid that the viewers are forced to yell out in protest.
8) The bad guy will die by his own actions.
9) There has to be one unexplained, completely forced hookup of some kind. (Honestly, if a mutant fish was killing everyone around you, would you be thinking about sex?)
10) The climax has to be the most ridiculous moment imagineable, with some convoluted, idiotic plan to defeat the bad guy. And despite the fact that the plan has roughly the same odds as virginal teenager at a hillbilly wedding, the plan inevitably succeeds.

All that said, this movie is hilariously good. It wasn't supposed to be funny, but it is. A few of the actors aren't bad, and the CGI is not as horrible as I would have expected.

If you want to sit around with friends and crack jokes at the expense of a bad horror movie, look no further than Frankenfish.

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

Mona

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.

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.