Reviews

I love this movie!!! We are talking "double cheese" here 1970's style. I saw this film many years ago on TV - I was a huge fan of Lee Majors in the "Six million Dollar man" - and it was great to see him in action taking on Jewel thieves/sexy models and Nasty killer fish in this low budget gem. The Brazilian background is really cool along with the 1970's fashions. The theme song performed by disco Diva Amii Stewart is catchy and the overall acting is ridiculously fun !! You don't get to see the actual killer fish very much but this only adds to the overall tension of the picture. A funny scene where "Ollie" - the fat photographer who gets eaten by the Piranha fish is really hilarious and a classic B Movie sequence. I am now a proud owner of the film on DVD and it stands proudly in my collection of B movie killer fish movies

JAWS the revenge was released in 1987 and, as a huge fan of the JAWS series could not wait to see it...... How disappointed I was !! It is unbelievable that a major film studio can invest so much money and talent in a film like this and make such a botch job of it !! Lorraine Gary puts in a string performance as the now widowed Ellen Brody (Roy Scheider sensibly kept his distance after JAWS 2). Lorraine Gary is an excellent (and underused) actress. Michael Caine is OK as the maverick pilot Hoagie - He seems to be enjoying himself(and the free trip to the Bahamas where most of this picture was shot). The actual shark is the worst in the series - you can often see the mechanics working the shark and when it is shown "swimming" in the water it just seems to be "bobbing up & down". The ending of the film Just makes no sense whatsoever and is ludicrous. On the plus side - The musical score by Michael Small is excellent and the photography is also impressive. I have bought this film on both Video & DVD - To complete my collection. Over the years I have actually "warmed" to it - but it will go down in cinema history as one of the weakest film sequels of all time.

I remember seeing this made for TV movie many years ago when I was a kid and thought it was a great little B Movie. I have looked for it on video over the years and was really pleased when it was finally released on DVD here in the UK. The production values and photography are great for this kind of low budget movie and the director keeps the tension going without showing to much of the actual "snowbeast" which actually looks like a man in a cheap snow creature costume. The cast of well known TV actors do a good job and Sylvia Sydney is great as the owner of the ski resort who wants to dismiss the killings for fear of losing holiday makers (very similar to JAWS. The actual killings are handled routinely and actual on screen violence is virtually unseen. Overall -a good addition to the string of "creatures run amok" films of the 1970's.