Barracuda
1978Barracuda is a 1977 American horror/thriller film about a small Florida coastal town that is menaced by chemically induced and highly aggressive barracuda fish. The cast included Wayne Crawford, Jason Evers, Roberta Leighton, Cliff Emmich, William Kerwin and Bert Freed. It was directed by Harry Kerwin, with the underwater sequences handled by Wayne Crawford.
A top secret government experiment leads to fatal barracuda attacks on the beaches of a small coastal town formerly renowned for its lobster. A marine biologist (Wayne Crawford) and sheriff (William Kerwin) uncover a plot involving a mentally unstable former war-medic (Evers) pioneering research into hypoglycemia and its effects on human behavior.
Barracuda was released on VHS by UAV Corporation on December 7, 1989.[1] The film was released on DVD by Dark Sky Films on September 30, 2008.[2]
Cavett Binion from Allmovie gave the film a negative review, called it "[a] muddled attempt at ecological horror".[3] Andrew Smith from Popcorn Pictures awarded the film a score of 2/10, calling it "a cheap cash-in", and criticized the film's plot, phony special effects, and lack of focus on the film's title monsters.[4]
Kinostart: | 16.10.1978 in Schweden Dezember 1978 in Vereinigte Staaten 05.01.1979 in Deutschland 02.02.1979 in Finnland 07.06.1979 in Kolumbien 08.08.1979 in Frankreich 07.09.1979 in Portugal 03.11.1979 in Spanien 30.10.1980 in Argentinien 05.01.1981 in Brasilien | ||||||||
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Genre: | Abenteuerfilm, Monsterfilm, Horrorfilm, Thriller | ||||||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigte Staaten | ||||||||
Originalsprache: | Englisch | ||||||||
Farbe: | Farbe | ||||||||
IMDB: | 1220 |
Regie: | Wayne Crawford | |
Harry Kerwin | ||
Drehbuch: | Wayne Crawford | |
Harry Kerwin | ||
Musik: | Klaus Schulze | |
Produzent: | Wayne Crawford | |
Darsteller: | Wayne Crawford | |
Bert Freed | ||
Jason Evers | ||
Cliff Emmich | ||
Roberta Leighton | ||
William Kerwin |
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