Frankenfish

• Tory Kittles: Sam Rivers
• K. D. Aubert: Eliza
• China Chow: Mary Callahan
• Matthew Rauch: Dan
• Donna Biscoe: Gloria Crankton
• Tomas Arana: Jeff
• Mark Boone Junior: Joseph
• Reggie Lee Anton

Frankenfish is an American horror film directed by Mark AZ Dippé from the year 2004.

Action

A tattered corpse is found in the swamps of Louisiana. The coroner Sam Rivers and the biologist Mary Callahan to be sent into the swamps in order to clarify the cause of death. There, they meet in a village a bevy of quirky figures (Vietnam veterans, hippies, voodoo worshipers ). The investigation revealed that huge monster fish in the waters of their mischief, which eat the villagers one by one. Finally, a hunting expedition crosses on which takes Rivers and the two last survivors of the village on their ship. It turns out that the fish are genetically modified and serve as a target for the hunters. The hunters chase the fish on and be devoured it. Rivers to defeat the last monster fish by letting him jump in the circling ship rotor succeed. In the last scene you like Dan sees another survivor, is eaten by newly hatched monster fish - in the genetically modified fish, there were obviously males and females.

Background

The staging about GM snakeheads, the Asian entrained Northern Snakeheads ( Channa argus ), is based on an incident in the village of Crofton in the U.S. state of Maryland - as, incidentally, also Snakehead - The horror of the lake.

The animal - horror film was first broadcast on 9 October 2004 on the private U.S. television Sci Fi Channel. In Germany the work was published on 14 December 2004 on DVD.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the " trashy animal horror B- movie" satisfy " the expectations of fans of the genre largely professional," albeit with much bloodshed.