BARRACUDA (1978)
Tagline : You Can Almost Hear The Screams! as the water
below becomes a CHURNING DEATHBED of FLASHING TEARING TEETH!
Oddly this movie was
also called “THE LUCIFER PROJECT” at one point, but I guess they decided to
change it due to the fact that it has nothing to do with the freakin devil and we do see some barracuda.
Much like the movie THE BAY this one revolves around pollution and its uncanny
ability to kill you and somehow cause fish with jacked-out teeth to get really aggressive.
Watch out for crabs that
walk like they are throwing up gang signs, 70’s swimwear, 70’s cops, and mangled
common sense. Tremble in horror as… you know, stuff happens!!!!!!!!!!
BARRACUDA plays out like
the blue-haired stepchild of PIRANHA and JAWS that it is, but overall the
cheese factor almost effortlessly lofts this into a must see bad movie night
legend. By way of comparison some of the underwater shots in this are not as
bad as other films of the same period. This thing is loaded with ridiculousness
that is just pretty comical overall, but unfortunately we never really get many
barracudas. The ending is all kinds of stupid (and not the fun kind of stupid)
which lowers my overall rating. The one bright spot acting wise, Roberta
Leighton (YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) is pretty good in this.
I have to give this a 2
out of 7, it could have probably been a 3, but I am not really looking forward
to the pitchfork and fire mob that would track me down for giving it that.
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