Snakehead Terror (2004)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Let's be realistic.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Honestly, with the movie going on I'm becoming more and more speechless. How in the world could someone produce a movie like this other than being completely drunk.So please do not watch this one unless you really don't have anything else to do and/or are drunk - I guess it could be somewhat enjoyable in that case xD------------------------- Spoiler alert!!! -------------------------It all begins with the never ending stigma of a sheriffs daughter that isn't getting enough love from daddy. Of course his wife had died a few years before and he doesn't like his daughters boyfriend. Well - Some mega-mutant snakehead-fish kill both the boyfriend and some other dude with + his dog. Not that they're just killing them, they're completely lacerating them. So far so good. The good sheriff goes to visit the city's major to convince him of sealing the whole lake off. Which seems to be kind of a good idea given the fact that it looks like there's some pretty feisty little animal out there. The completely ridiculously appearing major whatsoever sends him away, saying that it would be bad for the economy of the city to do so. The sheriff isn't happy with that but moves on. Understandably, cause, I mean what could possibly go wrong, right? Some days and corpses later it all becomes a public event. Hundreds of fishermen come cheerfully into the little city to see what's behind that story of the Mutant-Snakeheads. They even hand out T-Shirts ("I survived the snakehead terror")As a matter of course, the sheriffs daughter - who doesn't seem to be that broken-hearted after all - decides to go hunt for the Snakeheads. The next hour is pretty simple to describe. Some dude had punched growth hormones into the see for months to help the fish grow for economic reasons. Little sheriff's daughter gets in trouble. More and more people die - "epic" fight in the end of which I must admit, that it's outcome really leaves the viewer happy...-> ...cause it meant the movie was finally over.

Nothing trumpets a movie's irrelevance louder than the inability to remember anything about it a mere few weeks after watching it. Seriously, when I started to review this I had to stop and recall whether or not I'd actually watched it yet. I thought I had, but I couldn't remember a thing about it. I finally found my notes and after reading through them all the craptitude came flooding back. I wish I had just kept those memories hidden in the recesses of my mind. Kind of like the "gym teacher incident" of '88.This actually isn't as putrid as you might expect. But please don't take that statement as an endorsement of any kind. It's just one of those generic, low-budget movies that manages to avoid being horrible but is just too mediocre to be any fun.There are a few moments of unintentional hilarity though. You gotta love when a teenager gets killed and his friends immediately vow revenge on the sea creature that introduced their buddy to his demise. Within a couple of minutes they're laughing and bumping fists as they set out to "even the score." Good job of completing bypassing the mourning period, guys! I'm sure y'all will have no problem defeating some creature (on his own territory, no less) that has the capability of killing humans.Note to my friends: if you're ever killed by a shark or something then I hope you'll understand if I don't dive in the water and attempt to take the thing on by myself. I'll have to defer to the proper authorities in that case. Nothing personal.I think my favorite part is when the teenagers are in a boat and one of the girls shoots at a snakehead fish but she shoots the engine of another boat instead, causing an explosion that kills one of her friends.The remaining friends vowed revenge on her, laughed, and bumped fists. Or not.Oh, and Carol Alt is another in a long line of hot biologists in bad monster movies. Gotta love the reliance on such clichés! Welp, that's about it. The movie bored me, this review is boring me, and there's really not much else to say about it. Skip this one. I guarantee you that watching it will not add anything positive to your life. You won't be entertained, you won't walk away a better person, and you won't tell anybody, "You know, I'm really glad I watched Snakehead Terror." I simply cannot think of a single reason this might be worthy of 90 precious minutes.THE GIST If you happen to see this on TV one day then I highly recommend that you just keep on flippin'. I've seen worse, but this simply has nothing to offer. It's only for those of you who are really desperate for a bad movie.

This movie is one of the most unintentionally funny movies I have ever seen. Flagrant use of poor CGI and muppets make the movie hysterical. Beyond that, the main characters are pitifully incompetent at anything. You wonder just how stupid they are. The characters continue to ignore obvious solutions to tight situations and escape certain death with ridiculous ploys.Don't get me wrong. I loved this movie. I was in hysterics throughout the entire thing. Mutant fish puppets attacking a bumbling populace is quite a sight to see. Midway through the film, a man is spied by our sheriff to be emptying a container of liquid into the lake. He looks through his binoculars, and sees that the words "HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE" are printed on the side of the container in friendly red letters. One could think that you could not possibly beat that moment of pure ludicrousness, but the movie easily surpasses it in an insanely funny climax.This movie is destined to be the cult classic of cult classics.

Although this movie is predictable and hokey, it is based on a real, live fish: the Northern Snakehead. This fish does indeed "walk" on land and breathes air in addition to filtering water through gills. This part, at least, is true. This fish has become the bane to many a concerned biologist's existence on the East coast. Although this movie, as do many of this nature, exaggerates the ferocity of the Northern Snakehead (it only devours fish, especially it's competitor the large mouth bass) it's still diverting to watch. "Snakehead Terror" is filled with empty-headed teens, stubborn adults, and the know-it's-going-to happen pairing of a "tough manly" man and a "sexy but intelligent" woman. If looking for information on the subject of Invasive Exotics, this movie is NOT for you.