Oh man, is this film a MST3K classic. I agree that Devilfish does have some creative moments, like being the first film to have a shark-octopus hybrid. Michael Sopkiw actually had the look of an action hero and it's too bad he didn't continue acting.
Fish developed teeth around 400 million years ago, but the "shark" they use in this movie doesn't even have teeth and nor is it a shark. Dunkleosteus is a placoderm and has modified armour plates of bone instead of teeth.
@patrickimo1 Same here. I knew before going in that the fish was a Dunkleosteus. So being a massive fan of aquatic horror and a dino nerd as a kid, I was pretty excited... Then the tentacles showed up. :(
ah the days when some random Italian movie would have ten different names and be an unrelated sequel to another Italian movie also with ten different names
The Dunkleosteus is pretty much one of the scariest things to ever swim along with Megalodon, Pliosaurus and the Killer Whale. It deserves to be in more horror movies, preferably with practical effects.
Nightmare fuel the Dunkleoteus is indeed. Ever since I saw the fossil of one on display at Cleveland Museum of Natural History. If and when the sequel to THE MEG gets made, one should definitely put in an appearance. I remember posting a pic of one in another site. Freaked a lot of people out in the comments. Also one was the heavy in Matt Serifini's novel, OCEAN GRAVE. whistle-stop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/fa2c82e8e2c1fbaa870cdb90b9f5026/1/4/14575.jpg
@@dubuyajay9964 Honestly I don't like the JW Mosasaur. It's too big, big enough to fight Godzilla, and it has more of a crocodile-like appearance. I like the modern renditions of Mosasaurs being much more sleak and better adapted for swimming fast.
Can’t believe they showed that guys balls in the final cut! I’m still laughing at it!!!! Here in Brazil, back in the early 90s I rented a VHS about Dinosaurs, how could a movie with the lead actor named Michael Sopkiw be bad? Well, it was actually funny and it was filmed in Brazil and directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini (didn’t know ANY of this, of course, just thought it was a Brazilian movie because there were many local actors). Really weird movie, mixes Indiana Jones and Italian canibal movies. It’s called “Perdidos no Vale dos Dinossauros” or “Nudo e selvaggio” or “Massacre in Dinosaur Valley” or so on and so forth (actually rented it 2 times because the video store had it with another name and a completely different art cover. Fooled twice). Don’t know why I wrote this much, I guess this movie made me think about this other movie (haven’t seen it since that time, I was a probably 10 or 11).
The gorgeous Sandra was portrayed by Iris Peynado, she was involved also in "warriors of the wasteland" and " iron warriors". She also played an antagonist/love interest in the Italian cult comedy "non ci resta che piangere" (sadly it's not very popular abroad since most of it is in dialect and improvised between Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi, so the translated version doesn't work so well) . She still looks fabulous at 62 years old.
Okay, I'm getting some serious overlap in all of the algorithm's recs. I honestly thought that Cecil had already done this video and that this was a reupload, until I realized I'd seen this video in the MST3K channel I watch. With any luck, Red Letter Media is going to feature this on one of their Wheel of the Worst episodes. Fingers crossed!
@@GoodBadFlicks NGL, I would probably shriek with joy like a little girl if they end up doing so. And that realization just made me understand how messed up this year has been.
When I was hired as the Unit Manager--Florida in summer of 1984 by Darla Warner's husband Bob, the US Production Manager, one of the first jobs I had was to scout, and then later manage, the locations. You, Mr. Narrator, are wrong about one thing: half of those exteriors were shot in Key West including the Aquarium, not in Miami . All of the helicopter footage was shot in and around Stock Island and Key West. You were right about the "Island Claws" location, used in so many ways in so many productions since Michael Caine worked here. Built adjacent to an old, historic bait shack that offered the best damned smoked fish and coldest beer anywhere. Thanks for the memories.
“Not as well known as some of the other shark movies” Not according to Mystery Science Theater aficionados. No one will ever forget the iconic scene of the Mstie crew censoring Peter’s nut with the Mst3k logo. “Huh huh...I hung one put for fun!”
These videos really puts a smile on my face. very entertaining and informative. I love how you find good in every film. Every other youtube channels does the exact opposite of it.
I laughed so hard at the classic “I will kill!” from Mr.Suki! Ah, Suki- we hardly knew ye... Edit: Mr.Suki is the only character I know who can somehow get an “r” into the phrase “I will kill”- and for that, I will always love him.
I always love it when GoodBadflicks does a video on Italian horror movies. I hope that one day, he does a video on Lucio Fulci's Aenigma, or Claudio Lattenzi's Killing Birds.
What Deep Red is to Dario Argento, Devil Fish is to Lamberto Bava. Basically, these two movies were made a few years or so before they're biggest debuts.
The alternative title has "shark" in it even though the "shark" resembles a dunkleosteus, a fish from the devonian era that's not related to shsrks at all.
Brightened my Monday, thanks guy. I know T.V. Shows aren’t you niche but would love a Good Bad Flicks on Murder She Wrote. It’d yeah I know be prolly your lowest viewed video but I’m sure my rewatching would make up for it.
Awesome, Thank you for doing this one. I had recently watched it on MST3K and while funny they cut a lot of the nudity. I didn't know there was multiple versions im gonna try and find the european version and watch it with my roomies. We will give it our own riff. It is a fun movie though and I rather like the monster design.
Honestly as far as cheap sharksploitation goes, this is one of the more creative and enjoyable entries out there. Plus it features in one of the funniest MST3K episodes of all time - "Alright boys, see if he's done, try flaking him with a fork!"
My friend and I rented devil fish on vhs back in the day. We both fell asleep with it on. Twice. I remember waking up and looking at the screen, nothing was happening so I fell back asleep.
This film was rather popular and well known in one country maybe no one would expect : China. Back then, China had strict restrictions on foreign film imports, especially on the horror films. Devilfish was one of the few horror films officially imported to China , properly dubbed and I had the chance to watch in cinema when I was a child. The others I had watched were Killer Crocodile and Amsterdamned. It seems the restrictions were eased on European films.
I finally pieced together this film's U.S. release history and it was odd. It premiered on TV in Nov. 1986 as DEVILFISH, then hit VHS later that month, _then_ (five months later) it played theatrically as MONSTER SHARK. Basically the exact opposite of a typical release.
"There's about three gorgeous ladies waiting for me in New York..." About? You're not sure on the number or you're not sure they're all ladies? is one named Lola?
Hey, it's the guy from Massacre in Dinosaur Valley and Blastfighter! We've officially hit Brandon Tenold/Cine Masochist crossover! Also, my God, you've seen Legend of the Overfiend?
Sharktopus at least had a proper explanation for the beast going haywire. In this movie, the bad guys invented it to keep people away from areas they wanted to exploit but didn't provide any method for controlling it. "Sir, our underwater mining team was eaten by the beast we created to guard the area."
