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MOVIE I WATCHED ON TV - SPOILER ALERT

Last night my husband called me to alert me to the fact that the Sci-Fi station would be showing a movie called "Snakehead Terror." He said it was scary; it was. It was a hokey rip-off of Jaws and its copiers. But there were so many of them, gnawing and biting off body parts.

The plot was ridiculous: snakehead fish had invaded the waters of a lake in Maryland and to get rid of them the townsfolk poisoned the lake. Then the plan was to restock it. Curtis, the brother of the town doctor ran a bait and tackle store and as the doc said, "It was all he had." So the doctor got the idea to pour big containers of human growth hormone into the lake to get the fish to grow faster. Only . . . some snakeheads got in and grew to 8 feet and longer and there were hordes of them, hordes.

I thought HGH was really expensive and I can't see a country GP buying it in bulk. But we will let that go.

In this movie, it isn't enough to stay out of the water - snakeheads can move on land thanks to really strong pectoral fins. And walk they did - eating as they went. The "hot" lady from the state government went out on a boat with the sheriff and took an experimental electrically charged gun which could electrify the water in a 15 foot radius and kill things.

But then she accidentally electrified the boat - and killed its electrical systems. That was just as they got to an island where the sheriff's daughter and friends were harboring after wrecking their boat and blowing up another. All the snakeheads started coming out of the water and surrounded the cabin on the island, where the kids had found two half-eaten people. The kids fought them off with an axe and a shotgun and then the cavalry showed up. The lady helped clear a path with her electric gun and the sheriff shot down a power line that was - at the very last moment - thrown into the lake, killing the snakeheads - one which was as big as a small whale.

Curtis had tried to bury the leftover HGH but snakeheads gathered around the hole and ate him.

I hope this hasn't spoiled the movie for anyone.

I figure if watching this movie was an IQ test, I am maybe a 50.

You can see a poster for the film HERE. Curtis is the guy in the left background with a snakehead on each side of his screaming head.

posted by Jody @ 9:53 AM