Simply Perfect

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fresh and Exciting

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

... the old fifteen foot amphibious, carnivorous tree eel ploy.If you're looking for "serious" horror, look elsewhere. This is not a film to be taken very seriously; it is not the next "The Exorcist", or anything remotely close to movies of that caliber. It seemed to me that the film makers knew that, already had it in mind when they made the movie. It's campy... not necessarily good campy, but again, it seemed like the cast and crew were looking to make a film that might entertain and amuse you for a few hours. I'm not saying that they succeeded, but I think that they knew that this film wasn't going to be up for any Oscars.If you're absolutely bored out of your mind, and are desperate to watch pretty much any horror flick, you might find something in this film worthwhile. I reiterate, "might".

Razortooth. Another cable movie you'll see late at night, it belongs to that particular kind of species which is only released in video, a video you'll quickly glimpse in the store's bargain bin and then forget for a while before stumbling upon it one night while changing channels.The film also neatly fits into the set character lists one usually finds in such movies: the stupid, horny teenagers (with one "smart girl" in the lot), a scientist who messed with Mother Nature...yeah, nothing new. The monster is not new either and looks like someone decided to recycle the Anaconda franchise by adding eels to the mix (Eels, eels, anyone know that song?). While this may sound terrible, the film is deliciously funny.The eel looks permanently annoyed about something. It growls, hisses and roars and chases its prey over land, through trees, water and even bathrooms with what can only be a strong, homicidal hatred for mankind. The thing even stops while chasing its victims and does an odd hissing and shaking of head movement where it looks spectacularly angry (note to self: when a giant eel is angry, you're in for something bad). The fishy beast also appears to be a very flexible animal: it can bite a man in half, but can also attack through tiny pipes. This goes to show the animal is serious business and is not to be trifled with.Yes. Giant eels are serious business.The characters are all very boring at the beginning. You have to wait for the parts where everyone gets together to chase the angry eel for the real mayhem to start. Why? This is why.You have a bunch of angry American gun nuts, one of whom is overweight, has long white hair and an MP5 (ownership of such a gun probably violates several different gun laws). Another notable gun nut is looking for his son and is an ass. No worries though, he is an epic ass, and goes through the film swearing, insulting and manhandling traumatised kids and shooting at things. These gun nuts trudge around the streams and forests looking for the eel and all get massacred save for Angry Father who gets shot with a cyanide dart by Queer Scientist. The aforementioned students are also incredibly inept, with two of the students being fat (guess who natural selection chose for the eel's next dinner!). The scientist is a strange, wimpy fellow who tries to pull off the "tough scientist" role and only succeeds in looking a bit queer. He dies a hilarious, and unconvincing death.There are also some children who go missing. You shouldn't care about them since they don't get saved. In fact, practically nobody survives the hunt for the eel, which turns out to be insanely hard to kill.All in all, we can say the true hero of this movie was the eel. This movie is about the eel's quest for revenge upon the human species and how the noble (and insanely angry) beast is vanquished by man's cruelty.Rest in peace, Angry Eel, you shall never be forgotten.

The good? It ends...EventuallyThe bad? Whoah!Where do I start? The acting: pre school play standardThe script: I am only amazed that a script this bad managed to find funding.The dialogue: Is as bad as it gets, this tries to be intelligent and fails miserably, there's the usual cliché characters, some really bad and I mean BAD attempts at comic relief, I only got to the end because my TV remote is broken and I couldn't be arsed to get up and change the channel.The effects: WOW! Is it really possible, in this day and age, to have special effects THIS bad? The eel looked awful, it didn't even look like it was on screen half of the time. The main creature changed size several times to suit what was happening. I mean, in one scene, the creature is so huge it can bite someone clean in half and swallow them whole. In the next scene, it is small enough for the main (cough cough) hero to wrestle it in a pond.The music: Think Jaws played by a 3 year old.The direction: Was there any?Avoid this like the plague, it's 90 minutes of your life you'll really want back.

Fun movie. Fans of ANACONDA and LAKE PLACID will get a kick out of it. Has its tongue firmly planted in cheek. Kathleen LaGue may go places... she's rather swell here. She plays a small town sheriff who discovers a giant creature - eel like thing - is lurking in the nearby waters. With the help of a buddy, they track it down - but not before a few people get razortoothed - and well, you can guess the rest. Yes, its very predictable, and yes the special effects look a little low budget, but considering this is probably made for the DVD market, it's very worthwhile. I'd be pleased if I'd rented it. Make it a double bill and rent out ANACONDA at the same time.