Let me see if I can sum this one up: fire-twirling women take part in rituals to keep a fish god happy. Illegal dynamite fishing ends the hibernation of this fish god, Akua, who wakes up and starts eating human flesh. A sheriff and female herpetologist must join forces and stop the beast, which they do by blowing it up real good.I'm trying to think of one good reason for you to watch this movie. Hmm. Kathryn Witt has on tight 80's jeans? The sheriff's name is Keefer? It feels more like a travelogue film than something gripping and filled with drama? This movie hurts to watch.

A quick Summary of this film: A Green Fish like Monster takes a liking to eating people 0n the Paradise island of Hawaii.With the low budget and poor acting the only watchable aspects about this film are the scenes showing the Wildlife and the Island. I managed to watch the whole film on my Film philosophy that it can only get better, Unfortuantly it Didn't!Why i gave it 2/10 instead of 1/10 shows the quality of films i have seen in my life time. I would say avoid but make your own mind up....Next

Mmm… the poster artwork looked alright; too bad the feature didn't draw out the same excitement. 'Demon of Paradise' isn't the complete pits, but for most part is quite an flatfooted cheapjack co-American/Philippines monster feature, which treads water for too long and then amusingly erupts in the unimaginative final quarter. Philippine exploitation director/producer Cirio H. Santiago ('Cover Girl Models', 'T.N.T. Jackson' and 'Naked Vengeance') manages to keep you fascinated, but I don't know how. Maybe it's those cheap looking explosions. Yeah it could be. Caused by no other than the creature? No really it's plain stupidity. I don't know why they want to destroy it. I could've sworn when it's bobbing out of the water it likes to wave (not clawing), asking to jump in so it can hug you to death. But wherever it is about, for some reason there's dynamite and then explosions seem to follow. Maybe the director was adding those bangs to wake-up the viewer from the miserable dialogue exchanges and mainly limp acting. One scene involving a helicopter and the creature efforts to get up close for a ride is embarrassingly shonky. No wonder why he went all out in the final twenty minutes, but this creature could've been mistaken for a machine since all of the punishment it encounters and still it doesn't bleed. Where's Arnold Schwarzenegger when you need him. But more than one grenade thrown at the same time will get you a result. BOOM! Really there wasn't enough buzz. Everything here is a cut and paste job with the story lazily mixing 'Jaws (1975)' and 'Creature from the Black lagoon (1954)' together. The prehistoric underwater monster (formed by some superstitious groundwork) is a lousy looking rubber suit, and the rest of the make-up FX is quite tatty. Performances come across rather drab, but Laura Banks, Frederick Bailey and especially Leslie Scarborough kick up plenty of spruce. The music score was painful.Pointless trite, but watchable.

Someone wakes me up when something starts happening. Otherthan Kathryn Witt's form fitting 80's jeans I see no reason to botherwith this stinker. Seems to have been fashioned as an excuse toshoot a bunch of footage with one of those helicopter enginepontoon swamp boats & discussion scenes at a Hawaiian touristresort during an off-season winter lull. I also love how thehero/heroine are thrown out of the resort one scene & the nextthey go back to have a drink. THEN they get thrown out again, andare back four scenes later since that was the best set they had.I love low budget horror trash as much as anyone else, butsomething ought to happen every once in a while, and if you aregoing to have an attractive woman play a herpatologist in a horrorfilm she had better be seen at least topless & getting far more outof her career than she bargained on, or you have blown it.As for the monster suit, heh, I thought it was kind of fun to seesomeone not even bother to make something that looked "realistic" -- Kind of like Lamberto Bava's MONSTER SHARK, butwithout any point to it & lacking that movie's ridiculousentertainment value.Best line: "It takes two to mate." [Flushing sound]