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Swarm of the Snakehead

USA 2006
produced by
Seth Hurwitz, Frank Lama for Maryland People Films, Little Gray Productions, Studio Unknown, Ten Pound Films, iProductions
directed by Frank Lama, Joel Denning
starring Jamie Linck O'Brien, Lisa Burdette, Maggie Denning, Timothy Stultz, Johnny Alonso, Gerry Paradiso, Gunnar Hansen, Joel Denning, Sharon Graves, Rigg Kennedy, Frank Lama, Kim Mallory, Erica Highberg, Steve Carson, Leanna Chamish, Lizzy Denning, Bruce Geisert, Barry A. Hurwitz, Brandon Mason, George Stover, Michael Mann
written by Seth Hurwitz, music by Tom Alonso

review by
Mike Haberfelner

William (Joel Denning) returns to the town he grew up in, his three daughters in tow, hoping for a quiet life ... even if the townspeople seem to not have forgotten about him and are giving him grief about past shortcomings ... but he also meets his ex Abigail (Sharon Graves) again, who's more than willing to pick up where they've left off. Sure, his eldest daughter Ashley's (Jamie Linck O'Brien) relationship with local Jake (Timothy Stultz) worries William a bit, but that's pretty much a dad's job, so nothing to worry, really ...

Thing is, as of late, people have been disappearing, and those who eventually turn up (dead) show weird bitemarks. The mayor (Lisa Burdette) though is more interested in not letting the news out though than actually doing something to investigate, and just in case she hires celebrity fish hunter Darrel Delhey (Frank Lama), because hey, nothig wrong that some well-placed media attention can't fix. Thing is, the beings that have done all the killings are the Snakeheads William's dad (Rigg Kennedy) has created in his almost-top secret gouvernment funded lab and that have since escaped into the sea. And of course, it's not long before tragedy strikes big time ...

Genre legend Gunnar Hansen plays a maritime expert who gets killed in a hilariously incongruous accident.

 

By no standards is Swarm of the Snakehead a good movie, not even close: Sure, it doesn't take itself seriously for a minute, but then the humour's rather bottom-of-the-barrel, plus most of the plot is a carbon copy of Jaws, which, let's be honest, isn't exactly a movie known for its originality, repeating much of that movie's well-hung clichés. On top of that, Swarm of the Snakehead's creatures are rather cheapish, and not all the acting's up to par (that said, at least Jamie Linck O'Brien and a few others really impressed), plus the direction doesn't very much find a proper footing away from the purely functional ... and that all said, the more bad you find in Swarm of the Snakehead, the better it gets: Basically it's a failed attempt at making a genre parody that succeeds exactly where it fails, it's fun because of its bad comedy, a good parody because it fails to hit its marks, and even cool retro-horror because it's overly clichéed.

So basically, no, Swarm of the Snakehead is not a good movie ... and that's exactly what makes it quite as great!

 

And if this has gotten you at all interested, you might want to watch the movie here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/swarmofthesnakehead

 

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