Two things I knew about Barbara Bach before I saw this movie were she was my favourite Bond Girl during the Roger Moore-era as Agent XXX Major Anya Amasova in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and is married to a certain drummer from a certain little band called The Beatles in Ringo Starr. I am glad she will not be remembered for her wooden performance is this silly late 70 sci-fi yarn.
A ship carrying prisoners is destroyed after it comes face to face with a troupe of...fishmen. A medical officer played by Claudio Cassinelli (who looks like an Italian Stacy Keach) and four prisoners wash ashore on a mysterious island. Even if Keach was in this one I don't think he could have saved this one. Anyways, they meet a hubby and wife who rule the island and seem to be trying to use the fishmen for their own personal scheme. Also starring Richard Johnson (who does quite well in the villainous role, a plus to the movie) and old veteran Joseph Cotten who plays Professor Ernest Marvin.
The effects in this one are super cheesy and in turn makes this either unintentionally funny or just bad. I think if they played this movie like another horror/sci-fi of this era and turned to humor like HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP it may have been better. Not suggesting this should be littered with the nudity that was contained in that film, but just making fun of some of the material. This movie is played about as straight as you can play it and it is quite unconvincing. Everyone involved with this one gets a mulligan in my opinion.
A ship carrying prisoners is destroyed after it comes face to face with a troupe of...fishmen. A medical officer played by Claudio Cassinelli (who looks like an Italian Stacy Keach) and four prisoners wash ashore on a mysterious island. Even if Keach was in this one I don't think he could have saved this one. Anyways, they meet a hubby and wife who rule the island and seem to be trying to use the fishmen for their own personal scheme. Also starring Richard Johnson (who does quite well in the villainous role, a plus to the movie) and old veteran Joseph Cotten who plays Professor Ernest Marvin.
The effects in this one are super cheesy and in turn makes this either unintentionally funny or just bad. I think if they played this movie like another horror/sci-fi of this era and turned to humor like HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP it may have been better. Not suggesting this should be littered with the nudity that was contained in that film, but just making fun of some of the material. This movie is played about as straight as you can play it and it is quite unconvincing. Everyone involved with this one gets a mulligan in my opinion.