Terror in the Swamp

This movie is really really borrrrring. I like crappy monster movies, but this one has nothing to offer. No gimmicks, no nudity, no gore, nada. Basically it's a lot of waiting for something to happen and when it does happen (for 2 seconds), you may blink and miss it. There's so little going on in this movie, I stopped listening to it 15 minutes it. The cover shows the only scene of gore in the movie (some ten minutes into it), and you might as well stop it right then, because the only time you ever see the monster (for like 1 second) it turns out to just be a gorilla suit. So if you want to see something campy, don't watch this. It just sucks and is really borring, and a good waste of explosions.

"Nutriaman:The Copasaw Creature":who could resist watching the film with such glorious title?A giant mutated nutria is terrorizing Louisiana swamps killing various moonshine drinking yokels,trappers and poachers.The Copasaw bayou is seen through the eyes of the monster.Only the pair of scientists know the truth because they want to create some sort of supernutria for the fur industry.Of course their latest experiment goes wrong.The victims are killed by nutria.Nutriaman or the creature from Copasaw bayou is rarely shown.The acting is pretty good and two fat redneck brothers are fun to watch.An enjoyable monster flick.6 nutrias out of 10.

Feeling a lot like one of those cruddy bigfoot/sasquatch movies from the '70s (The Legend of Boggy Creek, The Legend of Bigfoot, The Creature from Black Lake), Terror in the Swamp (AKA Nutriaman: The Copasaw Creature) is utterly inept garbage from start to finish.

The majority of the film focusses on either the authorities trying to track down the creature responsible for the spate of grisly deaths in the Copasaw region of Louisiana, or on the hillbilly sadsacks who inhabit the bayou - actual monster action is at an absolute minimum. The result of a scientific experiment gone wrong - a coypu (a large swamp rodent) injected with human hormones - the Nutriaman looks suspiciously like a man in a fancy dress store gorilla costume with added claws. This dreadful regional horror wisely opts to keep the creature out of view, using POV shots, or by carefully concealing it behind foliage.

With ham-fisted direction, a dreadful script, terrible performances, virtually no gore, no gratuitous nudity and no scares, this one would have disappointed anyone unfortunate to see it at the drive-in or grindhouse theatre back in the day. These days, it can disappoint a whole new audience: idiots like me who seek it out on YouTube.

1.5 out of 10, rounded down to 1 for morbidly obese Cajun redneck T-Bob (Michael Tedesco) and irritating swamp hag Crazy Sally (Claudia Wood), both of whom deserve to be ripped to pieces by the nutriaman, but who stay alive.

This film gets a bad rep because the acting sucks, and, well... it just generally sucks, but people seem to disregard the presence of a miscast Sasquatch. Now the filmmakers would have you believe that this is in fact a giant Nutra (some type of swamp rat), and not a Quatch, but I say OH PLEASE! This is obviously a Bigfoot creature and is reminiscent (the creature, not the film) of the Creature from Black Lake. And besides, who the hell wants to see a film about a giant Nutra? This film needs to be brought to DVD. Come on you rich bastards, some cheap re-shoots, and a bit of creative editing and you have a classic Quath in the swamp stalk N slash. I keep this film amongst my Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti collection. If you have an affinity for the like then you too should peruse this gem.

I am loath to give such low marks to a movie but I had to vote "1" on this one. It was just so very lame. The acting was stilted and choppy, the soundtrack was just awful with very sloppy dubbing and randomly-placed music, and above all, there was very little to be seen of Nutriaman, who appeared to be more of a tallish baboon than anything else. I got quite a few laughs out of this one, but not for the reasons the filmmakers might have intended.