I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sadly Over-hyped

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a movie for sure. There is nothing to memorable about this, but let me try. This is a movie about a scientist who turns himself into a fish person to kill people. I'm no Bio Major, but this ain't adding up. The first five minutes is narrated stock footage of fish. I think Shark Exorcist stole this. The premise of the movie is stupid. If the guy wanted to kill people, why not just buy a gun. Also, why not test the serum on other people first? "Oh! I finished my serum. I'm boning to inject it in me with 0 testing. This will go perfectly." The fact that this was on the Fright Night app thing is so weird too. The only thing that works are the technical aspects.

This is a bad movie, I think my rating is probably a bit generous because I have watched so many b-movies. However, it has two redeeming qualities. Unintentional humor and the fact that it is one of the weirder weird movies I've ever seen. Essentially, the guy is a disgruntled scientist with a lot of weird lab equipment and free time. The lab is pretty funny, as it has all kinds of arbitrary lab equipment, which, perhaps, looked less low- budget in the seventies when the movie was made. Anyway, the guy has some kind of obsession with trying to turn himself (and perhaps others) into catfish that can walk on land. I'm not kidding, and it gets even weirder... The scientist then goes on a bit of a revenge-killing spree and kills several of the scientists that doubted him on something some many years ago or wouldn't help fund his research, I don't really remember which. Anyway, the guy gets a crush on a blonde woman and decides that he wants to run off with her and form an empire of sea creatures (I'm still not kidding).Does he make it? I won't tell you. However, I will say that the police in this movie are remarkably bad shots.

Ever the fan of bad movies, I checked this out recently, and it did not let me down, in the sense that it really let me down. It's a typical low-budget monster movie with a really bad costume, subpar actors, and some shoddy camera-work.The story is about a doctor who is really uppity that the world doesn't like fish as much as he does, so he does the rational thing and turns himself into an amphibious monster in hopes of conquering the world. Somewhere in there, he also wants to prove to some former colleagues of his that he wasn't a maniac after all by maniacally killing them, and he also needs to find a suitable female, turn her into a monster, and breed with her so this monster race can rule the world.Ultimately, it's not a terrible plot idea for a monster movie, but the execution just sucks. You really only have a vague idea of what he's trying to do and why he's trying to do it. Furthermore, the first thirty minutes of the movie seems to be just him randomly going back and forth between his lab to stare at charts and the swamplands of Florida to scare the crap out of people.The worst thing contributing to the concept of a "decent idea gone bad" here is the camera-work. All I can really say is that whenever you've watched a shot long enough to understand what's going on and are ready for a new shot to begin so that more information can be conveyed to you, that's about the point when there will be ten to fifteen seconds left of said shot. They all just last a tiny bit too long, and it really starts to grind away at your tolerance of other aspects of the movie.The truly notable thing about this movie is the awful hero, who I would probably consider the worst of all time. To summarize exactly what he does in the movie, he is completely absent from it for the first half or so. When he shows up, he still doesn't really have any purpose, so he just kind of does nothing important for another 20 minutes. Finally, he decides to go to the antagonist's lair and end it once and for all. Unfortunately, he gets bitten by a snake on the way there and dies. What a champ.Despite all of the terrible camera-work, annoying characters, and poor plot progression, the ending of this movie is a surprisingly iconic scene that will stick with you for a ways to come, even if everything leading up to that moment of cinematic serenity was a pretty much detestable and haphazard.In the end, the plot and effects of this movie are about two decades too late for it to be a quality flick on a serious scale, and the non-story elements (camera, music, lighting, scene transitioning) are too irritating for it to have the charm of a quality B-movie. Every so often, it seems to get something right, perhaps showing it had some potential, but it's still just not a good movie on any level.

An idiotic scientist decides to turn himself into a walking catfish monster. He also wants to create a new race of fellow walking catfish monsters. This is a horrible movie. It starts off with some laughable narration and an awful folk song. It only gets worse from there. That said, I was cracking up a lot throughout this thing. There's one golden moment shortly after the guy has changed into monster form. He's walking through a basement and clearly trips over something, perhaps the shitty monster costume itself. We're also privy to the long, drawn out process of him getting his machines, pulleys and other junk together for the mutation. This takes up about 20 minutes of screen time all by itself.About halfway through the film, we get more awful singing from a bunch of hippies, followed by a march to the local jail. The so-called hero of the picture is a joke. He and his girlfriend also wear ridiculous red jumpsuits. They should have just stuck with the college guy and the sheriff, not that doing so would have saved the movie or anything. This is currently #10 on the IMDb bottom 100 list. There's no question that this is a bad movie, but I wouldn't rate it that low simply because of the amusement I got out of it.