Leviathan

My family and I love bad horror films. We watch them every Saturday night. Tonight, we watched this "movie." Normally you can at least count on pretty girls in these flicks, but not here. Every woman in this movie is god awful ugly. The acting is terrible, the plot dumb, but the absolute best part is that every gun shown in the film is a bb or pellet gun. I thought I was going to die laughing when I first realized this and it made every scene with a gun just that much funnier. I often wonder if the people in these films know that they are making crap. I just can't imagine anybody gets excited about adding Razortooth to their resume. This movie pushed even our love of bad movies to the limit. It may just be one of the worst movies ever made.

After a rash of disappearances, a wildlife expert and the local sheriff team up with a group of residents to combat the gigantic, mutated eel running loose through the local swamplands before it eats the whole town.

This turned out to be quite the flawed if still slightly enjoyable creature feature. There's some rather enjoyable moments here, most of which comes from the fact that the creature is clearly out and rampaging around quite early so there's plenty of action scenes within this. From the opening attack on the search party in the swamps to the brief attack scenes around town as it attacks the locals to the rather cheesy finale where it seemingly keeps coming back despite several attempts to fully contain and kill it while the creature is chasing after them for even more action-packed sequences, so this one dos manage to contain some rather impressive and fun moments that allow for a pretty enjoyable pace here as these are spread liberally enough throughout the film to avoid any kind of prolonged boredom. Along with plenty of action is plenty of exciting kills here which are based on the creature's rather fun tactic of simply going for the kill every time out so it's ravenous behavior makes for a rather gory and blood-soaked time with plenty of limbs being gnawed off, bodies ripped apart, bites and much more here which make for a really good time. These are enough to hold it aloft over it's few minor flaws, most notably the utterly ridiculous and abysmal CGI rampant throughout here. Not only is this patently unimpressive and obvious in it's fake-ness, the fact that it also manages to employ other big giveaways to it's source is found throughout here including the creature randomly appearing out of nowhere simply because the attack calls for it, changing size and dimensions frequently and barely interacting with the outside world around it so there's never any doubt this pixelated, cheesy-looking beast is anything but realistic. Likewise, the other big flaw here is the obvious use of character-padding to max out a storyline that really shouldn't yield a movie this long so there's a lot of excess story lines drummed up simply to provide more characters for it to kill off which really shouldn't be so as they simply scream out in their attempt to pad out the running time. These are somewhat detrimental to this but not enough to really lower it.

Because it's pretty clear that Skiffy Channel employees are here trying to raise it's profile by writing smarmy reviews.

This movie has the same plot as nearly every other Skiffy Channel movie. (This was on the Skiffy Channel, right?) A mutated/alien/strange creature rendered by basement-nerd CGI gets loose in a rural community, starts picking off the locals one by one.

Somewhere, I hear Skiffy channel execs having a staff meeting. "Okay, we've done snakes to death. People are bored with snakes. What else do we got?"

"How about giant eels, sir?"

"Aren't those just like snakes?"

"Uh, no, they're fish."

"Well, don't they only live in the water?"

"We'll say they can go on dry land, too. Then have them pick off a collection of bad southern stereotypes, since it's the last accepted bigotry in America."

Bottom line, for all you aspiring writers. An interesting monster might be the hook, but you have to care about the characters. We get a lot of characters, nearly all of whom become eel chow, and you don't feel a bit of empathy for any of them.

Avoid this movie. I wish I had... watching bad movies so you don't have to.

I wanted to watch "Razorteeth" by the Polonia brothers, since I watched "Bigfoot vs Zombies" earlier and decided to watch another one of their movies, I couldn't find it online but I found this similar film (both in concept and in name) and it looked interesting so I decided to see it. "Razortooth" its not very good at all.

By SOV monster movie standards its about as average as you could get in the genre, a giant monster its on the loose and kills people, that's about it, I wasn't expecting anything more. It has a few decent kills and the effects are terrible yet somewhat enjoyable for the kind of movie it is. I was actually kinda of surprised at the amount of gore and deaths in the movie, these movies are often disappointing in that aspect but "Razortooth" delivers the goods.

It tries to be comedic but falls flat (again, same thing happens in a lot of these movies), the characters are a bit likable, the editing its awful, its terribly written and directed but it could have been worse.

The first half of this movie is bearable. Although, some inconsistent things happen like people walking around, terror in their eyes, too afraid to look backwards, while nobody at that point has a clue about the existence of the creature. Once they learn about its existence, it turns out that each an every character has an IQ of around 20. If you really, REALLY want to be killed, then you might do what these people do, provided you are lobotomized first.

And if that stupidity (and believe me, it is NOT fun to watch-- it is the only reason that I think this movie is not watchable and deserves the 4 out of 10 that I give it-- it's pure, 100% annoyance that ruins all fun completely) isn't enough; there are other large inconsistencies that are simply impossible, but that apparently the director wants us to take for granted. This eel can bite a man in half in one scene of the movie, and it comes through the waste-pipe of a shower-bath in the next. In one scene it lifts up grown men, throwing them in trees-- and the eel is described to be pure muscle by this professor dude-- while in the end our hero wrestles with the creature, in the water no less(!), and keeps it under control with his bare arms. Yeah right. What an insult. Pure waste of time.