I went into watching this with a totally open mind and bearing in mind I watch an awful lot of mediocre level horror movies on Amazon I think I've literally seen it all.
So Red Tide Massacre. It's a hard film to sum up because one of the things that comes over very much during viewing is it's very very disjointed. It doesn't seem to quite know if it wants to be a out and out horror or a sort of Asylum type film with a high parody/comedy element and unfortunately as a result it rather fails at both.
Firstly let's take the horror side. Well the premise is fine, toxic substances in the water create a mutant monster. Nothing original but few horror films are. Therefore it's all about execution. Here the execution is poor. The special effects are okay for this level film, the acting is okay and probably the actors would have benefited from a better script. But there's just absolutely no tension or build up to anything that happens. This rather kills any conceivable scare angle. This leads me to the second aspect of the movie. The disjointed slight comedy angle. The tension is never there because there are way too many breaks to cut to the lead character (A female reporter) who is making random reports about what's going on. Some of these, for example with a witness who thinks there's an alien are bordering on comical but totally ruin any fear factor. It's also almost a separate movie about this reporter who makes report's, goes back and tells her colleague what's going on and eventually sort of meets up with the sheriff's son and is suddenly injected into the actual main story.
The movie swings from very telegraphed kills to the reporter and her stories (Usually just her standing on the beach) and her sudden romantic involvement with the sheriff's son who she seems to have a deep relationship with after a total of two dates.
The culmination of all these is unfortunately beyond ridiculous and evidently just a device to get an ending involving both her and the sheriff's son where somehow the previously random monster has her address and is "Going after" her at her home. Like what?? Seriously?!
Finally after a extremely weak scene where the monster which couldn't be killed by shooting is just run over and incapacitated by the female reporter we're treated to a environmental message about polluting the planet and a series of cut scenes to show us what's happened to all the surviving characters 6 months later (Presumably to pad out the running time).
In summary this is not a good movie. It would actually have worked well as a spoof but it's not. And although I can see many of the actor's are capable they were given a awful script and nonsensical story to work with.
One of those movies where you'd hope someone would have thought during pre production "Wait. What kind of movie are we trying to make here?" But sadly that evidently didn't happen.
So Red Tide Massacre. It's a hard film to sum up because one of the things that comes over very much during viewing is it's very very disjointed. It doesn't seem to quite know if it wants to be a out and out horror or a sort of Asylum type film with a high parody/comedy element and unfortunately as a result it rather fails at both.
Firstly let's take the horror side. Well the premise is fine, toxic substances in the water create a mutant monster. Nothing original but few horror films are. Therefore it's all about execution. Here the execution is poor. The special effects are okay for this level film, the acting is okay and probably the actors would have benefited from a better script. But there's just absolutely no tension or build up to anything that happens. This rather kills any conceivable scare angle. This leads me to the second aspect of the movie. The disjointed slight comedy angle. The tension is never there because there are way too many breaks to cut to the lead character (A female reporter) who is making random reports about what's going on. Some of these, for example with a witness who thinks there's an alien are bordering on comical but totally ruin any fear factor. It's also almost a separate movie about this reporter who makes report's, goes back and tells her colleague what's going on and eventually sort of meets up with the sheriff's son and is suddenly injected into the actual main story.
The movie swings from very telegraphed kills to the reporter and her stories (Usually just her standing on the beach) and her sudden romantic involvement with the sheriff's son who she seems to have a deep relationship with after a total of two dates.
The culmination of all these is unfortunately beyond ridiculous and evidently just a device to get an ending involving both her and the sheriff's son where somehow the previously random monster has her address and is "Going after" her at her home. Like what?? Seriously?!
Finally after a extremely weak scene where the monster which couldn't be killed by shooting is just run over and incapacitated by the female reporter we're treated to a environmental message about polluting the planet and a series of cut scenes to show us what's happened to all the surviving characters 6 months later (Presumably to pad out the running time).
In summary this is not a good movie. It would actually have worked well as a spoof but it's not. And although I can see many of the actor's are capable they were given a awful script and nonsensical story to work with.
One of those movies where you'd hope someone would have thought during pre production "Wait. What kind of movie are we trying to make here?" But sadly that evidently didn't happen.