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Sea Beast (Review)

May 18, 2009By

Sea Beast

aka Troglodyte

2009
Directed by Paul Ziller
Written by Wendy Czajkowsky & Neil Elman

When Sea Beast first showed up in the listings on SciFi Channel, no one had any idea what the movie was. Internet searches turned up nothing, SciFi.com had no info about the film at all, people were confused, and many wrote it off as a generic sea monster film that would just be terrible. It wasn’t until a week or two before it aired that commercials popped up and people realized Sea Beast was really a film called Troglodyte that had gotten some good buzz. What looked to be a less than stellar no-name film turned out to be a very entertaining entry into the SciFi Channel movie world. Yes, an entertaining SciFi Channel film. They do happen, people.

I was wondering why some of the sequences reminded me of Snakehead Terror, but then I realized it was because Paul Ziller directed both. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was filmed on the same spot. Snakehead Terror was pretty passable (and only looked bad when compared to Frankenfish), and Paul Ziller has also given us Beyond Loch Ness, which also gets good marks as a SciFi Channel film. I haven’t seen Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon or Ba’al or Polar Storm, so I can’t comment on if Ziller delivers all the time.

One thing that makes Sea Beast/Troglodyte so entertaining is Corin Nemec, who is becoming a regular starrer on the SciFi Channel network. S.S. Doomtrooper, Mansquito, and Raging Sharks are all previous entries from him. When Corin Nemec is on, he’s pretty darn good, and his fishing captain character Will is pretty likable. Just don’t call him Corky!

Will (Corin Nemec) – Fishing boat captain and father looking to make a better life for his daughter. Barely scraping by, and deep sea fish monsters don’t help much! Corin Nemec is best known for starring in the Parker Lewis Can’t Lose TV series, and was seen on TarsTarkas.NET before with Raging Sharks.
Arden (Camille Sullivan) – Ecologist who helps track the origin of the new menace attacking this sleepy fishing village. Turns out to be pretty handy in sticky situations, and a love interest for Will.
Carly (Miriam McDonald) – Will’s daughter, who luckily isn’t named iCarly. Miriam McDonald is a Degrassi alumni, for those of you into terrible Canadian programming.
Danny (Daniel Wisler) – One of Will’s crew, and also dating Will’s daughter Carly. Danny keeps her safe on the island while slowly being poisoned by a hand bite. Things get even worse for Danny just when things look their brightest.
The Creature (CGI) – The Creature is never given a formal name. The closest we get are that it is related to Angler Fish aka Sea Devils, but neither of those are the titles of the film, Sea Beast or Troglodyte. As Troglodyte is a better name for a caveman movie and Sea Beast is never mentioned and too generic, we’re just going to call him the Creature. The Creature can walk on land, has babies it takes care off, has a prehensile tongue that is at least 25 feet long and strong as a bodybuilder, can camouflage itself, and can leap thirty feet into the air at a time from tree to tree.
Creature Babies (CGI) – Creature Babies, we make our dreams come true, Creature Babies, we’ll do the same for you! By eating you!

InMovie News

Fire From Below – Kevin Sorbo on SciFi Channel!

April 23, 2009By

Fire From Below is a films set to premier on SciFi Channel in September 2009 (I think it will be SyFy by then, but frak that stupid name) and it stars Kevin Sorbo vs some fire

Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.

It’s written by William Langlois and Jim Wynorski and directed by JR Mandish, but not much more about it is out yet. We should have a double feature with Fire Down Below and Fire From Below! Seagal and Sorbo!
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firenormal

InMovie News

The Phantom miniseries from SciFi Channel (SyFy)

March 26, 2009By

The Phantom (seen here and here in Turkish form) is getting a miniseries on SciFi Channel. All we know at this time is it will be produced by entertainment company RHI, who is also producing Riverworld and Alice3 in Wonderland miniseries for SciFi Channel (I am sure that Alice in Wonderland miniseries isn’t meant to cash in on Burton’s version…) No word on on the Phantom series will show the Phantom’s love for spanking!

Scifi Pulse

InMovie News

Termination Shock – due on SciFi Channel soon

March 23, 2009By

Termination Shock is an upcoming made for SciFi Channel (excuse me…Syfy….sigh…) film that stars Trip from Enterprise and Ando from Heroes! Yes, Connor Trinneer and James Kyson Lee are teaming up as space jockeys who fight giant bugs! Also starring Toni Trucks and Aja Evans (neither of who have been in anything I have seen) James Kyson Lee is cool and I have only seen him in non-Heroes stuff in that McDonald’s commercial. Looking forward!

Writer wrote several recent SciFi channel films, the upcoming Thor: Hammer of the Gods, Doomsday, The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake, Copperhead, and Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon

Given a undercover government mission to retrieve a “crate” from a distant planet, TY JOHNS and LEI CHEN find that they must smuggle not a crate, but a woman off world — and when their rocket-ship crash-lands on a planet packed with vicious giant alien bugs, they’ll need all the cunning and ferocity they possess to stay alive…

Somehow, I got this image on Google Image Search when looking up Termination Shock!

Somehow, I got this image on Google Image Search when looking up Termination Shock!

InMisc News

SciFi Channel's name change to SyFy generating nothing but hate

March 18, 2009By

Even we hate the new name for SciFi Channel, and so does the rest of the internet. BNET has a great roundup of just how hated the new name is on the internet. Lots of jokes about syphilis abound. SciFi Channel gets a lot of crap for canceling good shows, putting on terrible movies, and showing such SciFi staples as wrestling and Braveheart. How much of the hate is just general SciFi Channel hate, and how much is hate on SyFy? I am guessing it is 100% both!

InMovie News, WTF?

Syfy????? Has SciFi Channel lost their Frakkin' minds???

March 15, 2009By

SciFi Channel will soon cease to exist, and be replaced by Syfy, the channel for people who use Y’s for I’s. They are seriously changing their name to “Syfy”. Seriously. I am not joking. This is actually happening! I will have to use the term “Syfy Original” later this year. I don’t want to use that term, I will probably refuse to use that term for months, but it will happen eventually. We are doomed.

Sci Fi Channel Has a New Name: Now, It’s Syfy
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: March 15, 2009

FOR years, television viewers, journalists who write about TV and services that compile listings have wondered how to refer to a certain cable network: Sci Fi Channel? Sci-Fi Channel? SciFi Channel? SCI FI Channel?

Soon, to paraphrase Rod Serling — whose vintage series, “The Twilight Zone,” is a mainstay of the Sci Fi Channel — executives will submit for public approval another name, not only of sight and sound but of mind, meant to signal a channel whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, Syfy.

Plans call for Sci Fi and its companion Web site (scifi.com) to morph into the oddly spelled Syfy — pronounced the same as “Sci Fi” — on July 7. The new name will be accompanied by the slogan “Imagine Greater,” which replaces a logo featuring a stylized version of Saturn.

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The tweaking of the Sci Fi name, introduced in 1992, is part of a rebranding campaign that seeks to distinguish the channel and its programming from cable competitors — 75 of which are also measured by the Nielsen ratings service.

I wonder if this could have anything to do with money…

“We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.”

Bingo! SciFi Channel was tired of everyone talking about SciFi and it not being their network! Their Google Alerts must have been filled with fluff that they couldn’t put in powerpoint presentations to get more advertiser cash, so out comes a name change. And if it fails, they can just blame the recession and not the dumb name.

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