Hydra (2009) (TV)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Andrew Prendergast

Writer:

Peter Sullivan (writer)

Release Date:

22 February 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Man Hunt | Ship | Remote Island | Mythical Creature

Cast

Dwayne Adway	...	Mr. Winters
Frank Alvarez	...	Otto
Texas Battle	...	Ronnie Kaplan
Ed Blinn	...	Daniel the Technician
Antonio D. Charity	...	Knut
Roark Critchlow	...	Sean Trotta
Diego Villarreal Garcia	...	Panos
William Gregory Lee	...	Clarence Elkins
Alex McArthur	...	Vincent Camden
Michael Miranda	...	Scott
Philip Moon	...	Dr. Kim
Dawn Olivieri	...	Gwen Russell
Paul Rae	...	Alex Williams
Polly Shannon	...	Dr. Valerie Cammon
Graham Shiels	...	Horst
George Stults	...	Tim Nolan
Michael Shamus Wiles	...	Captain Sweet
Jana Williams	...	Dixie
Matthew Willig	...	Gunner
James Wlcek	...	Bob Crick

Runtime:

94 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

S.S. Victory Lane Maritime Museum, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Cinetel Films

Goofs:

Continuity: Dixie is grabbed by the hydra and pulled down the corridor. A few scenes later, a shot is shown of the place where she was grabbed, with a puddle of blood and a missing shoe, neither of which were in the original shot.

A better than average SCI-FI channel creature feature.

HYDRA begins with four rich hunters that have paid a large sum of money to hunt people on an uncharted island, but unknown to everyone there is something on the island that has a taste for human flesh, a creature of myth know as the hydra.

Although I reckon this is not part of SCI-FI's man eater series, if it is its certainly one of the best ones I've seen, the film is actually really good when I look at the last few SCI-FI channel originals I've seen, because you get YETI which was a quickly slammed together mess, there was VIPERS that was a complete rush job and you had GRIZZLY RAGE that was neither of the aforementioned but it was crap anyway.

This film was the exception to other SCI-FI monster yawns, it had better CGI effects, it had a good story to it, even though there was minimal character development and no real back story as to where the HYDRA came from or how it ended up on the island, the dialog was actually pretty sharp and not as ridiculous as in other SCI-FI channel films.

My only complaint I have is the score, despite that it sounds similar to the score of another SCI-FI original called KOMODO VS. COBRA, its very loud and sometimes it almost muffles the dialog, you can also hear the sound of really noisy trumpets that tend to make you cringe, just to give an idea of how loud the score is.

Otherwise its a better than average SCI-FI original creature feature.