Creatures From the Abyss: Definitely a Bad movie

[StatCat]

Creatures From the Abyss Review  

Can a movie like Rats: Night of Terror be considered a masterpiece of Italian cinema? Quite possibly after watching Creatures From the Abyss you might consider this thought like I did...

Creatures From The Abyss= a movie to cherish

Five teenage kids go for a ride in a row boat in the ocean for some reason unknown and unexplained. Their motor gives way and they are soon trapped in a storm. The group stumbles upon a large yacht and they soon discover a mysterious laboratory in which incases large piranhas behind glass and various fish. The strange thing is no crew are aboard, could it possibly be the flying plankton piranhas that can live on land that exterminated the crew? Yes!
Utterly brilliant! The kids are soon picked off in bizarre ways. Like they eat fish (that moves when cooked) out of the fridge and soon one girl vomits these strange looking bug creatures (did I mention a talking piranha pops out of her head later in the movie and so do two giant claws?) I learned that piranhas make strange grunting noises and at times can even engage in conversation! So can showers and strange hallway outlets. What a futuristic boat! Scientists who obviously had a lot of spare time.... Another guy's head turns into a piranha as he is having sex. Later in the movie the girl has fish eggs. These deviate land piranhas are brilliant in spreading their evil spawn. Theres even a giant evil piranha monster that appears to be clay animation. At the end before the boat explodes with a detonation timer a voice tells the remaining two people "get out theres no time for small talk," and "I think you know you're names, get out you bastards" Man this boat is ingenious to be the all seeing eye. Too bad it wasn't too swift to see the piranhas take over. Very funny dubbing job with some of the most inane lines I've ever heard, I can't believe this movie really. Shriek show released this on dvd. An extra feature is a short interview with the director who seems to have the same intelligence level as his movie. I can't believe the guy would even want to show his face. Too bad to believe..
1 and a half out of 5 (just for the unintentional humor (or was it?) alone.

[Flangepart]

Good grief! Could we add this to the list of "Movies produced under the influance"? Sounds like a definate addition to the "Andrew, ya' gotta see this one!" note book. Man!. Bet 'ya never see this on on TMC! Unless, they have "Amature Night".

[StatCat]

Checked the search here and it seems Andrew does have it on dvd too, don't remember if anyone else knew of it.

[Andrew]

I sure do have that ugly little beast and none too happy about it at times either.  Avoided reading your review StatCat, since I'm thinking it is on my hit list once I get home.  That, "Arachnid" and "Sheena" seem like good choices to get back into the swing of things.

The constant "fish cam" angle drove me nuts.  Especially when the people had to have seen the darn thing!  I spent lots of air yelling, "How did he miss the fish?"  Plus, they all see the one guy as half-fish monster, but upon opening the door and finding him covered with slime-water they think maybe it was just a figment?

And that darn clock in the hall...

Andrew

[StatCat]

I would smash that clock after a total of about 10 minutes, fish clocks with huge buldging winking eyes are pure evil.