You've all been there, you are with a couple of friends, and you have flicked through the channels and the DVD collection. and you have found nothing. But wait....what is this channel that you never knew existed, or that gap between the sofa and the wall? That is where you will find this shockingly terrible piece of cinema, it is not even worthy of the bargain bin! So anyway, you have nothing better to do, so you turn on the DVD player, or select that channel that you have never heard of. You open a couple of cans of drink, rip open a bag of crisps (or potato chips) and be prepared to roar with laughter at this pathetic excuse of a film. It is an insult to the 'horror' genre.In a nutshell, we have a very simple, crude plot. Some teens, including the attractive teenage girls in tight clothes are at a lake in the middle of a forest. A local has been caught disposing of toxic waste into the lake, causing the once small or 'pesky' snake head fish to grow to unreal sizes (one is the size of a bus, this made be cry with laughter). And so, these overgrown, carnivorous fish have strong pectoral fins, enabling them to move on land by using them as limbs. They eat and kill countless people, but as the effects are so bad, all of the scenes involving this a mockable. And of course, the teenagers seek aid in the form of a shotgun, as always.If you are a traditional film lover, who wants to see a horror film on a league with Hitchcock's or Craven's films, please don't expect much. If you are a 15 year old boy who loves cheesy gore, and you have equally odd friends you will adore this film.

A shocker in ever sense of the word, even the usually fit biologist looked like she'd fallen asleep with a bot-ox needle stuck in her face, I couldn't work out most of the film, like the 'shock' on peoples faces when they saw something, but we (the viewer) didn't get to see, like the insides of the snakeheads gut's on the pier, the old bloke in the chair etc. etc. unless i was just watching a cut version but I cant believe they would bother cutting this tripe. The lake was nice and pretty but basically that was the only thing worth watching about this pathetically lame film. If a snake head fish started crawling after me I'd boot it in the head. There is no way any snakehead fish could kill me, the one that looked like a whale at the end might have a go but lets be honest you're never going to get snakehead fish that big. If they were going to include a monster snakehead fish the size of a whale at the finale why didn't they have it do something, like rear up out of the water and swallow someone like miss bot-ox? All the giant snakehead did was bang into the jetty a couple of times like can't you see the jetty pal.. oh please don't bang into the jetty its so frightening, I could have picked it off with a catapult. I quite like monster films but prefer them not to be made into comedies, it just feels like everyone involved in movies like this are in it for one thing, money, not credibility and certainly not to provide viewer satisfaction.

I only started watching from when two kids go swimming and get eaten up, not that it mattered because you catch on quickly and it pulls you in. It even had a scene where the town sheriff tells the mayor, "we need to shut down the lake! something out there is killing people!" and of course the mayor replies with "Are you kidding?? No way I'm shutting it down! It's summer!" It also has a girl accidentally kill a man by shooting a tank of gasoline on his boat. They just shrug it off. It has all the elements of a cheesy jaws rip off. I also recommend "Shark Attack 3: Megaladon". That movie will crack you up. Much like this movie, Shark Attack 3 is one of those movies Blockbuster tries blending in with the other new releases. Similar "Snakes" "Ants" "Lep In Da Hood" and films of the like, these two movies are nothing but hilarious. Shark Attack 3 is the better because it's more rated R and contains one of the funniest lines in movie history. Definitely check that one out.

For a Sunday afternoon cable movie, this was actually pretty good. Nice scenery. Bruce Boxlietner (who looks more and more like Bill Clinton...spooky) and former supermodel Carol Alt gave decent performances. And there were a few clichés that were avoided. Doc (the actor who was the Cigarette-Smoking Man on X-FILES) was behind the whole mess but he wound up arrested instead of being fed to the fish. The sheriff and the scientist didn't fall in love. Best of all, the sort of dopey deputy who had a crush on the scientist didn't get fed to the fish either. The mayor (who had really neat eyebrows) channeled Murray Hamilton long enough to give his little speech about how the town needs the tourist business so the beach must not be closed) and then vanishes from the plot.Sure, this wasn't that original. The writer and director have obviously seen JAWS many times. The scene with the upside-down boat proved that (and there's no way I'd ever fire a gun while standing on an overturned boat but I guess a good guy's gun doesn't have recoil). There were some major plot holes in that this seemed to be a rather tiny town but people like the guy from the local newspaper and his photographer could go missing and people didn't think it strange. The final siege in the house was very much like THE KILLER SHREWS, but that may have been coincidence. And the ending was lifted whole cloth from JAWS 2 except the electricity went to the critters instead of one critter chomping down on a bazillion watt power line.But in its own way it was fun. And compared to the usual Sci-Fi Channel movies it was a work of brilliance. With the exception of TERMINAL INVASION most of their original movies haven't been just tired, they've been exhausted.Maybe with this one the actors had a nice vacation and got in some boating and fishing on their days off. And for a made for TV movie there's a surprising lot of blood and gore, both fish and human. The shot of the headless corpse spurting blood on the windshield was memorable, to say the least.Best of all, this wasn't so dependent on computer generated effects. I've seen too many movies on that station that looked like video games.Look for the appearance by the singing wall-mounted fish in the house where the final siege takes place. It sings "Don't Worry, Be Happy," and is a very nice touch.Turn your brain off, get some snacks (or some sushi if you really want to get into it) and enjoy.