Devil Fish (1984)
"Shark: Rosso nell'oceano" (original title)

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Director:

Lamberto Bava

Writers:

Lamberto Bava (additional material), Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay),

Stars:

Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko

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Cast

Cast overview:
Michael Sopkiw	...	Peter
Valentine Monnier	...	Dr. Stella Dickens
Gianni Garko	...	Sheriff Gordon (as John Garko)
William Berger	...	Prof. Donald West
Iris Peynado	...	Sandra Hayes
Lawrence Morgant	...	Dr. Davis Barker
Cinzia de Ponti	...	Florinda (as Cinthia Stewart)
Paul Branco	...	Miller
Dagmar Lassander	...	Sonja West

Storyline

Several boats are torn apart, badly wrecked corpses are washed ashore... something horrible is out in the Caribbean sea. The teeth marks on the bodies don't lead to any known animal, so scientist Dr. Stella Dickens suspects it's a so far unknown life form and strives to catch it alive. She doesn't know yet that ruthless scientists have genetically created this creature as a bioweapon, or that it has been designed to reproduce by asexual means. And that the company she works for created the creature and will stop at nothing to keep their secret.

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Plot Keywords:

sea | dolphin | boat | monster | sea monster | 

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Taglines:

Wave goodbye...

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

14 November 1986 (USA)

Also Known As:

Devilfish

Filming Locations:

Big Cypress Swamp, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmes International, Les Films du Griffon, National Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 85 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film's French title is "Apocalypse dans l'ocean rouge", meaning "Revelation in the Red Ocean."

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Goofs

Janet continually mispronounces Cretaceous as "Cetaceous".

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Quotes

Doctor: Whatever it is, I wouldn't want to rub it the wrong way.

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Crazy Credits

The "Devil Fish" version shows the title twice at the beginning; once just after the attack on the boat and once during the opening credits.

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Connections

References Jaws (1975)

User Reviews

Edited for the A.D.D. part in all of us

I'm not sure what the director and editor were thinking when they were editing this poor excuse for a film, but whatever they thought of didn't help this movie, it only hurt it, and it hurt this film badly. The acting, for once, isn't the problem, it's the horrible editing, scenes will end for no apparent reason, while in the middle of an action sequence or people will be cut off in mid sentence. I'm not sure what the story was, but it didn't really matter, since what I did see was fairly uninteresting. Just bad all around, a huge "Jaws" rip-off and not a good one at that. The MST version was funny though. 7 for that, none for the film itself.