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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

"Son you must stop the experiments I have started!!" Too bad nobody said this too whoever green lighted this project!! I was almost literally dragged to this movie by a friend of mine for a midnight showing when we were in high-school. Now, a midnight movie in high-school on a Friday night, you are not expecting much, but c'mon!! And upon seeing it again years later I sill stand by my original opinion of it. Great special effects but so what!! Quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Unless you enjoy blood and guts and seeing some Hollywood vets (Steiger & Hunter) make fools of themselves for a buck. YUCK!!!

That's right, don't watch on a full stomach and just try not to eat while watching it. It's not that it's particularly gory, but I'll explain later.As his mother lies dying in a hospital bed, David Brooks hears her tell him of top-secret experiments on his brother, Anthony. She advises him to go back to her house and destroy her notes and burn the place to the ground. Instead he goes with his wife and colleagues for a weekend to find out more information. While he is there he meets Amanda Pays' character who is a marine biologist that has been following his mother's work for quite some time. She is secretly working for Rod Steiger, a corrupt scientist who will stop at nothing to find out more about "The Anthony Experiment". It turns out Anthony is in the basement the whole time, transformed into a hideous aquatic creature. He had been genetically altered with a substance called Neomycin, a chemical found in all marine life.The movie's selling point is it's all-star cast and stomach-turning special effects. Sadly, Kim Hunter's character dies early on. There are some truly hideous monster creations. Rod Steiger keeps the rejects locked up in his basement. People with deformed pus-covered faces, octopus-like suckers on their arms, over-sized exterior veins and arteries with bluish-green fluid pulsing through them. Amanda Pays undergoes a truly remarkable human-to-fish transformation that should have won a freakin' Oscar. And the Anthony monster is truly horrifying, some kind of largemouth bass-squid-eel-humanoid monstrosity with glowing red eyes that melts down once electrocuted in a veritable fireworks show of squirting slime, blood spurting, and dripping latex. Rod Steiger gets blasted right in the face with a healthy dose of fish sludge (cod liver oil?). If you like your monster movies gross and slimy this one is for you.

A group of geneticists gather at the home of a recently deceased scientist, Amanda Collins(vet Kim Hunter)who sent her son, John(David Allen Brooks)there to destroy all her journals and research concerning "hybridization" experiments splicing marine life with human cells. Mad scientist Dr. Phillip Lloyd(Rod Steiger in one of his crazed roles), who worked with Amanda before they had a falling out(..and who later assisted in Amanda's demise), has been experimenting with hybridization for years but hasn't achieved the results his partner had. He secretly sends in an experimental hybrid of his, Melissa(the lovely Amanda Pays)who pretends to be an admirer of Amanda's and "marine researcher" befriending John(..while secretly falling in love with him which produces a problem for Lloyd who controls her thanks to his serum and pain medication that keeps Melissa human). While the group searches for answers regarding what exactly Amanda was doing at the home, a monster underneath the floorboards has come out to terrorize several of them. Could this monster be the "Anthony" John's mother was referring to as she cried out during a bad spell when ordering him to destroy all the evidence of her work?Fun little late 80's creature feature has a good cast and pace. It gets silly at times particularly when the monster kills one victims by exiting a watermelon! One scene has a certain character turning from human into a fish! There's a hilarious(..and ridiculous)scene where Hart(Timothy Gibbs), one of the only survivors of the monster's attacks, who escapes from the hospital after being under heavy sedation over several days knocking people out of the way as if he were a football defensive tackle. The creature is shown in all it's glory at the end in the show-stopping climax where Steiger also makes his presence known in an explosion of anger towards the group's plan to kill it.

This one was a real surprise. I expected it to be a tedious and clichéd film but it was so so much more.The acting was simply magnificent and for an 80's movie, the special effects were some of the best i have seen. The story line was also very solid and i found myself wanting to the movie not to end as i was so into it.One of the very best horror films you are likely to see.10\10.A A A A