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CrapScore 72, Premium Crap

Up from the Depths

“Your vacation is about to end!!!”

Premium Crap. CrapScore 72, rated by 1 admin.

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Why it’s crap
A tropical resort finds a hungry prehistoric fish interrupting its holiday business. Awkward dubbing and murky creature encounters give this Jaws-style diversion its rough charm, although the strange comic decisions are often more visible than the monster.

Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones

The club’s verdict

Acting
7/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
8/10
Dialogue
7/10
Rewatchability
6/10
  • “The resort's all-inclusive deal now works both ways.”

    @flabbergasted_jones, scored it 72

Synopsis and movie facts

The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

Released
1979
Directed by
Charles B. Griffith
Running time
85 min

Starring

  • Sam Bottoms as Greg Oliver
  • Susanne Reed as Rachel McNamara
  • Virgil Frye as Earl Sullivan
  • Kedric Wolfe as Oscar Forbes
  • Charles Howerton as Dr. David Whiting
  • Denise Hayes as Iris Lee
  • Chuck Doherty as Ed Bennett
  • Helen McNeely as Louellen Bennett

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