That was an excellent one.

Perfect cast and a good story

Best movie ever!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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.

There's one thing that ZAAT has going for it that very few monster movies do: it delivers the goods early on and doesn't skimp. I'm referring, of course, to the monster itself. In 99.9% of monster movies, the viewer is left wanting more (if not ANY) of the titular creature. ZAAT boldly breaks with tradition and gives us an active, almost always on-screen creature doing his best to wreak havoc on the local populace. He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer (he IS a mutant monster, after all- nor was he any worldbeater BEFORE his transformation, either), but he does his best. It helps that the locals make some serious errors in judgement when confronting our hero (like the sheriff who starts to draw his gun when he runs afoul of our hero, then opts to use it as a club rather than a firearm), but that's a big part of what makes the movie so much fun. ZAAT's costume is pretty neat (yes, I'm well aware that the fur is there to hide the seams, but so what?) and it's refreshing to run into a No Budget movie that just keeps plugging away to the very end. I've seen a LOT of movies a lot worse.

Wow! I watched this movie several times, because it was awesome. I really laughed throughout the entire movie! Fighting scenes without hitting, terrible soundtrack, people acting worse than the TNA Wrestling contestants, the lead actor visibly waiting for his cue AND a dragging, unconvincing sentimental scene at the end. This movie has it all. It really is THE flick for some late night entertainment with no suspense, only kick-ass slap-stick scenes put together. Of course this was not the intention of the makers, but with their budget, you can hardly expect anything more. This movie has an enormous cultural value. Although I agree with the IMDb's 1.7 for it's genre (horror/thriller) it deserves a ten for bringing joy and laughter in the world. Thanks Don Barton, I enjoyed every moment!

Lousy monster movie shot in Florida. Dr. Kurt Leopold (Marshall Grauer) transforms himself into a walking catfish (seriously) for some obscure reason (to be totally honest I kept falling asleep so I may have missed his reason). He's also killing people for their blood. (Yes--I KNOW catfish don't like blood but you just gotta go with this) He's also trying to turn a woman into a walking catfish like him so they can mate and produce a new aquatic race! The sheriff of the small town this is happening in tries to catch him and two agents from some society try to help.Deadly dull mess. For starters, the monster is some actor in a stupid looking costume. He's not scary--just silly. Kids wouldn't be scared of him. The sound is sometimes TOO loud and then inaudible at other times. ALL the acting is terrible (none of these "actors" ever made another film) and this just drags. The attack scenes are so obviously faked they're almost embarrassing--gotta love when you see a "dead" corpse moving and when you see the monster waiting for a cue from the director before he attacks someone! Also the boom mike is visible TWICE in one sequence! Then there's a truly pointless sequence where the sheriff locks up a bunch of local singing hippies so they'll be safe. (He probably rightly realizes the monster would attack and kill them all for their lousy songs!) This does have some beautiful underwater photography and a rather surprising end that I didn't see coming. Also hunky Dave Dickerson has a few shirtless scenes. Still it's mostly boring and pointless. Skip this one.