Roger Corman along with great Filipino exploitation master Cirio Santiago produced this JAWS rip-off which features probably the fakest looking monster of all time. It's sort of a big rubber barracuda creature that chomps on tourists at a resort and at one point even yells before doing so. The dialogue is all goofy and dubbed terribly and the whole thing drags in a whole lot of spots. On the positive side you get some boobs, laughable scenes of people running around the beach in terror, a silly stereotypical Japanese man who tries to make sushi out of our monster-fish and an awesome looking movie poster(which is also copied from JAWS) and that's really about it. This was released at one point as a double-feature with David Cronenberg's THE BROOD and I think that would be a terribly uneven bill to watch. I'm not sure of this but whenever the monster attacks someone it looks like they took the bloody water footage from Joe Dante's PIRANHA. Speaking of which, you would be way better off just watching that flick.
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