Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

jaguiar313 I love a 'so bad it's good' movie just as much as the next movie geek but, this 1978 "gem" is just all round bad. I had the misfortune of catching this in a theater back in '78 and let's just say it hasn't gotten any better with age and it's still so bad that 70s nostalgia just doesn't help. The movie tells the story of a school teacher who (for whatever reason) is trying to solve the mystery of some animal mutilations and later human murders around a Venice California cove. The police think it's a serial killer or a cult and forensics can't seem to tell animal bites when they see them. He discovers that a leak from a nearby nuclear plant created an organic sludge called "Slithis" (never explained) which takes on characteristics of what it absorbs and it is now a humanoid fish monster craving food. From it's awful dialog to it's even worse delivery of that dialog (an actor playing a police chief seems to think he's playing a bad guy on a Sid and Marty Kroft show.), Slithis is mind numbingly bad. Half the films shots are in slow motion for no reason, including the opening scene of a fat kid playing Frisbee, which means it's scant 80 minute running time would be less then an hour without them. The Slithis creature costume is okay but it looks like a pudgy Creature From The Black Lagoon and the human eyes are just too nice and blue to illicit fears. And as a horror film, fear is something this completely lacks. From the easily telegraphed attack scenes, where most of the carnage is off camera, to the tone , which goes from serious to oddly whimsical at times ( What kind of film where they trying to make?), Slithis can't generate any suspense or tension whatsoever. There is some blood but, with a PG rating, Slithis is rather tame and there are only a few attack sequences as the film is very talky for an 80 minute creature feature. An awful film that somehow has garnered a bit of a reputation but, after revisiting it, I can only guess it was from lack of availability as the film has very little to recommend even to fans of bad movies.

Coventry "Spawn of the Slithis" is another ultra-cheap, badly dated and utterly goofy late 70's toxic swamp monster movie. They were quite numerous back in those days, as eco/environmental horror was a popular trend, but the vast majority of these flicks are awful beyond belief. They generally feature cheesy rubber monster costumes, amateur ensemble casts, absurdly grotesque scientific monologues that the writers didn't understand themselves and hilariously inept make-up effects. These films, and "Spawn of the Slithis" is a wondrous example, are insufferable for viewers with a minimum of good taste, but quite amusing for bad B-movie lovers. Nuclear waste leaking into a river slowly develops into an entirely new life form that spontaneously begins to terrorize the dimwit villagers of a small community called Venice Beach. The local school teacher slash amateur journalist investigates the cover-up conspiracy, for some reason against the will of his yummy girlfriend, but never really gets anywhere. "Spawn of the Slithis" is exceptionally slow, cheap and boring. I wouldn't even fully dare to recommend it even to the most trained and tolerant horror movie fanatics. There's for example a sequence with two homeless guys that goes on forever and ever! Basically they are just random victims for the toxic monster, so nobody is interested in their redundant conversations and quests for alcohol. The only murders we properly get served are preceded by an inexcusably long introduction sequence of an old playboy and his young mistress. They meet at a turtle race track (!), have an overlong and pointless conversation in their convertible, head out to a private yacht, meet up for a friendly chat with the neighbor and organize a cute make-out session in front of his obnoxious self portrait. Then, and only then, the monster pops up to do some nasty killing! The monster outfit, obviously inspired by "Creature from the Black Lagoon", is fairly cool and scary, but apparently the screenplay prefers to elaborate on the pitiable lives of his victims. Shame, as this could have been a genuine guilty pleasure like "Prophecy" or "Humanoids from the Deep".

kartoon-1 I won't go into any other mentioned details. But typical of the time period, the death scenes were sexist. Meaning to say, in one scene a young couple are attacked in a house boat. The guy is quickly and cleanly killed and that's it for him. The girls death, however was nothing less than a rape scene in slow motion, as the monster rips her clothes off a garment at a time and casually slurps his leech-like mouth on the exposed body part while she screams while kicking her black-leather booted legs helplessly in the air. We even see her breasts exposed in one slashing, yet they are not cut by his claws...but are slurped on rather noisily. Uh, but being a guy myself, I'm not really complaining...hee hee hee!

Andy Piantanida What a flick! I bought this one just for the front cover - it was in the 25 cent special bucket at a local pawn shop. This video was worth every one of the 25 cents I paid for it, and I'm guessing the producers lavished at LEAST 26 cents on the filming of this masterpiece. Looking for cheesy, overblown, low budget, backyard trash on film? Look no further!