Also known as Island of Mutations, Something Waits in the Dark, and Screamers.
What is this, a Zombie movie? With these alternative names? Apparently this movie was slightly edited and shipped around to several different countries, with alternate names, and none of the versions were very successful. Maybe the apt new name should've been something like Lipstick on a Pig.
Fishmen stars Barbara Bach from James Bond, and in one of the versions it had a clunky sounding scene with Cameron Mitchell and Mel Ferrer edited into the beginning. I don't remember if my version had that, honestly. I can't be bothered to check, either. Okay I did check and yes I watched the US version that had these two in the beginning.
From the director of Torso comes this almost Lovecraft feeling story of a lost isle that has fish human hybrids on it, ala Dagon. Barbara Bach and some others land there and its shadowy, inept chaos from there on in.
Shot with a negative lighting budget, the real question you'll be asking yourself is what is going on. Now, this is not the worst thing I've seen by far but yeah its just another example of a truly amateur low budget schlockfest. No nudity and no real violence either, its another one of these as well where I ask, could this be rated like PG?
Its fun low brow trash, I give it 2.5 stars.
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