Hellyfish (2014) User Reviews

Great example of horror filmmaking on a budget

[MovieCriticMarvelfan · 10/10 · 6 July 2017]

Great short. Essentially a bit of a homage to creature flicks way back when using the setting of a beach and a giant jellyfish as the monster.

The acting was good, the camera-work was great, and the special effects were very good. If most horror flicks followed this example we've have a lot better movies than we do now.

They give you a little backstory to the monster early on how it's created, and since it's a jellyfish there's more than one mutation out there, I like this short as well because it moves very quickly then gets to the action.

Worth looking at.

Cheesy B horror in all the right ways!

[valeriewessel · 8/10 · 15 October 2020]

If you are a fan of B horror movies and creature features you will enjoy this short. Completely over the top, with many classic movie references, I was laughing almost the entire time. Whoever made this movie must have also been a big fan of Jaws! The special effects are hilariously awful. Overacting that would make William Shatner proud. This and the other short named "the gray matter" are the only two shorts worth watching in the entire Monsterland movie. The gray matter is actually better, if it had not been the second short that was shown I definitely would have turned off the Monsterland, and my horror movie standards are pretty low. then I would have missed Hellyfish, and that would have been sad, because it is also pretty good. So, The Gray Matter is the second short, Hellyfish is the last short, skip the rest of the Monsterland film and thank me later.