| View Larger Image | Plankton | DVDStarring: Clay Rogers, Michael Bon, Sharon Twomey, Laura di Palma, Ann Wolf
Directed By: Massimiliano Cerchi
Also With: David Williams (Cinematographer), Massimiliano Cerchi (Producer), Peter Jones (Editor), Joseph Holden (Producer), Richard Baumann (Writer)
| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $17.99 | | You Save: | $1.96 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 86 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Shriek Show | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 | | Release Date: | July 29, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 134,093th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Description
Five bright young teenagers decide to go for a ride in a small rowboat on the open ocean. Strangely, they come across an abandoned yacht with a mysterious biology laboratory! Bob and Julie decide to make love on the boat, but radioactive plankton from the lab infects them. How will they escape when Bob messily devours Julie and monsters begin running rampant on the boat? |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 8 reviews)
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had some and lil more action to the end... by John Lemoine  2 Stars
April 14, 2009
needed more action and creature action, longer creature closeup time. kinda fake and dumb movie. i like the flying fish and grosse creature stuff later. they could have made this picture more fun and interesting tords the end somehow.
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Something Fishy From Italy by Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)  3 Stars
July 27, 2008
Creatures From The Abyss follows a group of five kids who get stranded out in the ocean when they run out of gas. They find an abandoned yacht and come aboard. Of course in horror films we all know this is a classic case of "out of the frying pan and into the fire". The yacht was used by a crew of scientists studying radioactive fish. The crew are all toast, but the fish monsters remain and proceed to attack our heroes. The science of the fish is more complex than it should be, but two things are for sure-The fish are carnivorous and HORNY. One guy is having sex with a chick and then starts transforming into a large fish while he also vomits small fishlike monsters on the girl's face(his eye also pops out and falls into her mouth). Later she gives a painful birth(or is it a miscarriage?) to what looks like a big gloppy puddle of caviar.
I realize how tantalizing I'm making this film sound, but it's really only so-so. It seems to take quite a while for anything to really happen, and even when it does it still seems kinda boring in a way. The acting is what you'd expect, and the characters are the usual suspects are far as cliches go. As expected, they do and say inept and illogical things. If your boyfriend was being strangled by a woman with a giant fish monster protruding from her head, I seriously doubt saying, "Please, leave him alone" is gonna help much.
It's not without it's entertainment value though. It's so cheap and dumb that it's funny and amusing at times. One particularly funny part has to do with the ship's alarm system. It's one of those verbal alarm systems that tells the crew when the self destruct mechanism has been activated and is counting down. There's also a verbal coach for the shower to tell you how and when to masturbate. Anyhow, the self destruct is activated and the alarm is instructing to evacuate. After a few minutes of the characters running around in panic the alarm says, "Is anyone listening to me? I still hear footsteps! Evacuate!" I don't know, I just found that quite funny.
The look of the film is the typical look of the Italian films of the late 80/early 90s. Think Zombi 3. The DVD has an interview with the director which lasts only a minute or so. Not much to say about the film I suppose, and I don't blame him.
Anyhow, it's good for a laugh, but Argento it ain't.
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VERY GOOD "BAD" MOVIE by B. Andre (maine)  4 Stars
April 12, 2008
yes, this movie is BAD! but it's fast paced and very funny! it's not like watching Manos: the Hands of Fate, which is just painful. it's an Italian teen horror film from the 80's so expect anything. the dubbing is the most obnoxious and hilarious i think i've ever heard. image quality is pretty decent. hell, it's a win win situation. fun flick. very cheap. and you can even get it in an inexpensive triple feature set from Shriek Show if you wanna boost some weirdness to your collection.
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Starring The Golgi Apparatus Of A Radioactive Crayfish! by Robert I. Hedges 3 Stars
June 07, 2006
Of all the Italian movies I have ever seen about the horrors of radioactive plankton, this is the worst. This film, made for approximately thirty two cents, has the worst acting and most inept direction I have seen in a long time. Adding to the wretchedness is the MTV-like quick cuts of inappropriate things from inappropriate angles. (Helpful tip to the filmmakers: just because you can edit doesn't mean that you should.) To even think about enjoying this film you absolutely must be fanatically devoted to enjoying the worst aspects of cheesy movies, and even then prepare to writhe in pain a great deal.
This film was also titled "Creatures From The Abyss" and is about adolescent longings, flying radioactive fish, and snorting high-grade plankton for illicit purposes. In other words, this is a mess. The movie opens with some teenagers including a nerdy guy and a would-be party animal (who may be the thoroughly most disagreeable character in movie history) and three girls in bikinis going onto the open ocean on a small inflatable boat in the middle of the night, where they encounter a mysterious abandoned scientific boat with luxurious accommodations including giant, opulent bedrooms with faux-fur decor, a stuffed polar bear, a (very annoying) Sid and Marty Krofft talking octopus wall decoration, and a demonically possessed toilet which talks (saying things like "The toilet tissue has malfunctioned!")
Intermittently through the film we see jump cuts of flailing rubber tentacles from a half-man, half-fish, three quarters-badger creature whose tenuous connection with the plot is never completely resolved but does involve an oversexed half-woman, half giant crab creature somehow. There are also many shots of something pulsating that we infer is the radioactive plankton that the prehistoric fish have been eating to make them fly and kill. (I think; it's all a bit difficult to follow.) The nerdy guy discovers that these fish live out of water, fly, and know how to turn their victims into monsters by reading erotic stories about these mystery fish. (I am absolutely not joking.) This is confirmed by the discovery of a deranged plankton crazed, drooling, incoherent, scientist junkie in the bilge of the ship, who is accused of having an immoral relationship with the fish in question (ponder that, please.) When he is confronted with his crimes against nature his only response is "They were old enough!" (Making matters worse, his accuser then goes on to commiserate by saying "I understand! These things happen.")
Interwoven into the plot are several other unsavory subplots including exploring the use of dried radioactive plankton as a recreational drug, unplanned pregnancy, and the least savory love scene in screen history, which, I am sorry to report does actually contain a giant larva tongue, inadvertent eyeball swallowing, and octopus wrestling. The whole thing concludes with some gross, yet horrifically unrealistic special effects, and the brainy nerd wading around in gasoline holding a lit candle.
The film is a feast for not only eyes, but also ears, featuring some of the most ineptly crafted dialogue, delivered with the most inappropriate inflections ever, by the least likeable cast in recent memory. This is all topped off with continuous new age music that drones on and on (and on.) Truly a sensory deprivation experiment of a movie if ever there was one.
In all absolute honesty I have no idea what to give this film for a rating. As a quality movie, it is sub-zero. As schlock cinema it is over the top. I settled on three stars depending on what you are looking for. If you are really committed to the bad movie genre, this is a must-see; otherwise you better turn tail and run away at flank speed now.
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Awsome Cheese fest by Tickle Tawson (Flint, Michigan) 4 Stars
August 03, 2005
Do not watch this movie if you are expecting a revelation in films. However, if you want to sit back and laugh at how rediculous this flick is please by all means get it.
The story starts of with 5 teens at a beach. They get on a floating rubber raft and head out to sea, leaving the gas can behind. Eventually they get lost in the middle of the ocean and of course it starts storming. Soon they find a huge yacht and decide to get on board to get out of the rain.
It turns out to be a research vessel containing all sorts of crazy fish and radioactive plankton. What insues is predictable with mutant fish running around, a hillarious sex scene, a crazy scientist, and a half man half fish. Also there is this really wierd one eyed thing on the wall that talks to everybody(I think its supposed to be an octopus sculpture or something)
All in all this really is a movie so bad its funny(much like troll 2). The dvd has a few cool features that include a interview with the director and previews for some other movies.
If your into cheese ball low budget horror movies with sex, gore, mutants, radio active plankton, and badly dubbed voice overs, then this is the movie for you.
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