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A fishing village somewhere in the USA: The new cannery and especially
its foreman Slattery (Vic Morrow) are at war with the locals - and
especially Indian Johnny Eagle (Anthony Pena), who oppose the cannery. But
this little turf war is actually the least of the village's problems,
since they are soon under attack from some kind of amphibian humanoids who
love to tear up locals and rape their women. Village good guy Jimbo
(Doug McClure) soon teams up with Johnny Eagle and the cannery's scientist
Susan Drake (Ann Turkel), and they find out that the humanoids were
accidently created in an experiment performed at the cannery where salmon
was crossed with some weird hormones ... but before Jimbo and company can
make their findings public, the humanoids have already started an all-out
attack on a village festival - but are ultimately all killed in an
underwhelming showdown. Jimbo is also given a chance to save his wife and
child personally, also in a rather underwhelming way. The danger seems
to be over, until Peggy (Lynn Theel), one of the women raped by the
humanoids, gives birth to her offspring ... A very tired stab
at genre moviemaking: Obviously inspired by Jaws, Piranha
and Creature from the
Black Lagoon, with an Alien-like
ending tagged on, this film has next to nothing to offer in terms of
originality or at least wit, instead tries to remain as predictable as
possible throughout, and unfortunately succeeds, too. A bunch of tired
B-movie actors sleepwalking through their roles don't help the film get
moving one bit either. Aell, at least the creatures look interesting if
not all that convincing.
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