OK, only watched because on Svengoolie and it was really really hard to get thru.At first it's like Jaws but sub in the barracuda and that would have been so-so.Won't give away any spoilers, but then it becomes a completely different movie genre.Only watch if you have a strong need to sleep.

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.

Packed with more murky underwater photography than you would find in your average nature documentary, BARRACUDA is in all respects a cheaply-made film. Starting off like some derivative JAWS rip-off, we witness lots of scenes of divers and swimmers getting attacked by "something" under the water. Cue lots of limb thrashing, extreme close-ups, blood bubbling to the surface and even a cheap severed hand. The slow police department (seemingly made up of the Sheriff and his slow-witted deputy) haven't got a clue. So it's up to our hero, a marine biologist student complete with a '70s bushy hairdo and a fine line in horrible shirts, to discover the truth.Well, in most respects this is a pretty awful film. There's hardly any action in it and the gore is kept to a minimum - just the aforementioned underwater death scenes. When characters get shot, they just fall and die with no visible wounds. The music is derivative and the acting is amateurish at best. There are a minimum of locations (a police station, a doctor's lab, the beach) and a lack of narrative which sucks the excitement from the film, turning it for the most part into a dull, boring effort packed with stiff cardboard people. Even a romantic subplot is contrived and lame. The sound and picture quality are poor too, but then I did pick this up for 50p at a car boot sale.But...about two-thirds of the way through, the film changes direction and becomes interesting. A government conspiracy angle is introduced as it becomes apparent that a local cooperation is dumping chemicals into the ocean which are turning the barracuda deadly. Not only that, but the town's water supply is also infected with the same chemicals and making people depressed, stressed out and violent. And on top of all this, a squad of shady government agents, who resemble "men in black", are executing anybody who knows anything about the situation - be it nosy reporters, police, our hero. Thus, the film just about gets by on the strength of the story alone, and deserves kudos for not just being another underwater menace rip-off. The bleak ending is also very effective, and shocking, and totally unexpected. Let's just say that it's extremely downbeat and a risk that paid off for the makers of this no-budget thriller.

Here I go again explaining how poorly written the script of the movie is, Science Fiction should be based on either empirical or theoretical evidence. My father when he succumbed to the symptoms of Dementia on Christmas day 2010 at the age of 79 for quite a few years had Type 1 Onset Diabetes. Anyone who knows anything about Diabetes realizes that if blood sugar which is measured in milligrams per decilitres is too high or too low can go into seizures, but the symptoms of being too high or low starts with extreme fatigue. Anger, rage is that usually associated with hyperactivity and clueless as what to do with that energy. I speak from experience in that aspect I had ADHD as a child, which at 52 only leaves you with chaotic thoughts and not enough energy being your Andrenalin glands are dried up. My point being it is well known that when a person experiencing a Diabetic seizure from Hypoglycemia should be given something extremely high in sugar like a candy bar. As for those barracudas if they were experience the worst case of Hypoglycemia the only result would be they would die in a very short time. Major BS writing, do I doubt our government has and is still experimenting with ways to make the majority of U.S. citizens completely docile, kill and/or turn us into mindless zombies, no! I do not and should scare the crap out of everyone, can only hope those involved in the research have enough nobility to destroy or turn the mind control against the decadent tyrants that mismanage society. Yes, yes, I know major run on, do not care, tired and I do not have the energy to rephrase my comments into short complete sentences.