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Frankenfish is a 2004 creature horror movie dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou.

In September 2005, the SciFi television channel aired the movie Frankenfish that was inspired by the snakehead fish incident in a Crofton, Maryland pond.

The following describes the 2004 movie.

Story

The movie begins with an old fisherman pulling up tasty looking crabs from the riverbed. He notices the buoy bobbing and gets dragged in a flash. He is quickly reduced to a bloody stub. The situation is so odd that Mary Callahan, a biologist from the Department of Wildlife, and Sam Rivers, a medical examiner originally from the area, are sent into the deep bayou to investigate the death. The thriving backwater community of floating houseboats consists of old fishermen and a hippie couple. They find the wife of the deceased fisherman, who is a kind of voodoo seer, and her daughter Eliza. The wife tells the investigators that a boat washed ashore a few months ago and ever since then, strange things have begun to happen.

Their guide, Elmer, takes them to the boat. The crew is identified as Asian (due to the cuisine choices still strewn about the cabin). The smell from the rotting corpses in the hold causes Mary to regurgitate over the edge of the boat. The fish is apparently attracted to vomit and when Elmer accidentally falls into the water, he is immediately consumed. The boat begins to transfer a signal to some Chinese who are connected to some wealthy bounty hunters.

Back at the boathouse village the locals eat some dinner with the newcomers. One of the hippies hears a noise while hitting the bong. When he goes down to investigate and leans over the edge, the fish leaps up out of the water and bites his head off. They soon realize that the fish attacks anything which moves. The fish capsizes all the boats and when they try to use the dead hippies’ houseboat they realize the only things in it are bongs. The nearby Vietnam vet fishes one of the bongs out of the water and uses it. He falls into a fit of craziness and rips the heart out of the killer fish and puts it on the grill. In the middle of eating the heart (in honour of his fallen comrades), another fish jumps up and eats him. They realize that the fish can breathe out of water and must have a vestigial lung.

The voodoo lady suggests that it’s a monster, and that it is not the work of nature or the voodoo faith. A fire starts on the vet’s boat and a shotgun fires and kills Mary with a shot on her face's left side. The fire also sends a burning propane tank into the hippie's boat house, blowing it up and sending Eliza into the water. Sam dives in and rescues her; however a fish eats half of her mother. The fish begin to sink the house boats causing extreme distress among the survivors. The boats don't completely sink and the poaching group shows up and is quickly knocked into the water. The main hunter explains that they are genetically engineered snakeheads. They are a delicacy in China and one step further than genetically engineered salmon. He says that he did it because it’s something no one has ever seen... or hunted. Sam and Eliza and Eliza's sleazy lawyer date, Dan, have no choice but to go with the poacher and his partner to hunt down the remaining beast.

The crew follows a trail of blood from the wounded fish back to its den. Sam and the two hunters enter the den to retrieve the fish. The two hunters are quickly dispatched by a fish at least twice as large as the ones previously encountered. Dan, Sam and Eliza quickly leave on the fan boat and are chased by the huge frankenfish. The fish is eventually diced into tiny pieces by the fan boat propeller after a short chase. Dan is thrown from the boat and is shown lying in the mud, being consumed by a mob of tiny frankenfish.

Soundtrack

No One Can Hide, performed by Hot Wheelz, is the credit song with the memorable lyrics: this thing's a giant pirahna/that's why I won't put one foot in the wata

Complete Cast

(in credits order)

Tory Kittles .... Sam Rivers
K.D. Aubert
.... Eliza
China Chow
.... Mary Callahan
Matthew Rauch .... Dan
Donna Biscoe .... Gloria Crankton
Tomas Arana .... Jeff
Mark Boone Jr .... Joseph
Reggie Lee .... Anton
Noelle Evans .... Bobbi
Richard Edson
.... Roland
Muse Watson
.... Elmer
Steve Ritzi .... Pilot
Ron Gural .... Coroner/Sheriff
Eugene Collier .... John Crankton
Sean Patterson .... Abrams
Raoul Trujillo .... Ricardo
Marco St. John
.... Chief

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