Barracuda

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Barracuda

I bought this movie because I really thought it would be terrible. I imagine something like "Spawn of the Slithis", or "Nazi Surfers Must Die", but this movie turns into a good one after all. In the beginning, the plot is very silly - barracudas eat people. Amazing. The filming under water, with the barracudas waving their tails while eating the limbs of people is laughing. But... in the middle of the movie the barracudas disappear, and the story, although with poor acting, is interesting. In fact, X-Files is very close to that. And the end is a lot better than one you could expect from a movie called "Barracuda".

There's not much life in the small seaside town, despite a chemical plant and a hotel right on the beach where people go scuba diving. Investigative reporter Wayne Crawford is doing his part by trying to get the chemical plant shut down, when suddenly the barracuda start eating the scuba divers. It's one of those JAWS rip-offs with counter-culture paranoia about the government, and incoherent exposition while the reporter is in a gun battle with the Feds just before the theremin music starts again. The most notable point of this cheapie is not the story, the acting, or the direction. It's the set design. I had forgotten how brown the 1970s were, with cheap wood paneling, and tan polyester shag rugs.

Some people including scientist Jason Evers have been renting out Bert Freed's plant on a coastal Florida town. They bear the underlying responsibility for some disturbing and aggressive behavior with their experiments. And also some of the waste product being dumped is making the fish which strangely enough seem to be mostly Barracuda becoming quite aggressive. It seems as though the experiments are causing hypoglycemia among the population of the town who all seem to be lab rats. Who is doing this and why is for you to watch this claptrap of a movie for. But I did look up hypoglycemia in Wikipedia and the primary results at least for people aren't borne out by their article. Unbelievable claptrap and I'm sure the paranoid conspiracy people love Barracuda.