Director: Bret McCormick (as Max Raven)
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
Telling his story to a doctor, a recluse trying to get over his wife’s death tells the story about how him taking a strange drug turned him into a human/shark hybrid and made him roam the streets looking for human victims, forcing a detective to find a way of stopping the killer’s rampage.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent enough, if still troublesome, genre effort. Among the better factors here is the whole idea about how this manages to occur and the treatment of the transformation as a curse more than anything else. The early stages of this one, where his attempt to deal with the drug dealer who visits his house and tries to continue their business arrangement before giving him the special pill that ends up enabling the transformation later on when the hybrid shark version of himself is born to start heading out on the streets looking for people to kill. This is a solid enough idea and is handled seriously enough to be a worthwhile start to the film, so that its cheesier side of focusing on the different figures trying to figure out his true nature and how the various crimes are being committed. That gives this some cheesy fun to deal with regarding the various ambushes and attacks caused here that bring about some cheesy deaths for what’s going on, all of which come together to give this some worthwhile elements.
There are some really big issues here that bring it down. The main drawback with the film is the generally lackluster pacing for what’s going on, where it never seems to go anywhere for long stretches of time as nothing happens. Rather than showing him on the loose going around killing people and ripping them apart, there’s just endless scenes of nothing really happening, as it’s either needless scenes of the detective trying to skulk around the castle trying to figure out what the problem is with her missing sister or the scientist spending time with his wife’s skeleton in the basement talking about their relationship. Neither of these elements manages to offer the kind of setup that drives plenty of action along the way, as this keeps the whole scenario in just a few small locations where he doesn’t have any chances to attack others. The few instances where it does occur are decent enough, but it’s more the frequency matter that holds this back, and alongside the generally obvious low-budget nature and presentation that look incredibly bad throughout here, all bring this down.
Overview: */5
A pretty problematic genre effort without much going for it, there are only a few worthwhile elements with this one that keep it above the other factors on display that are prominent enough to hold this down. Those with an appreciation for this style of indie genre fare or who are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like here, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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