BARGAIN BIN BLOCKBUSTERS - EYE OF THE BEAST
Eye Of The Beast: This is the tale of a small fishing community, a marine biologist trying to make a name for himself, and a kraken taser.
We start off with the old standby of teens wanting to have sex on a boat in a lake. Classic. Turns out there may also be a kraken who is not into sexy shenanigans on its lake surface, so the beast, well, it feasts.
The acting sheriff of the town, Sheriff Katrina Williams, finds herself in a pickle. Missing horny teens, and racial tensions between the drunk white fisherman and the Cree fisherman, and now, James Van Der Beek has come waltzing into town to study why the lake has no fish. The town is nothing but fishermen, but they got no fish, and now Dawson is up the creek without a paddle.
The search for the missing teens comes up with nothing, and as the Cree point blame at a possible kraken, the white fishermen be like, "nah, its just tentacle-shaped propellers". A tourist family has also come to a fish-less lake to walk its shores and get eaten. A 4 star trip and hotel review down the gullet of a kraken. Sad really.
Well, the good news, its JVDB is here to solve all the issues. Racial tension? Kraken? Lonely sheriff? JVDB is here and now there is no fear. Working with the sheriff, the local Cree, and eventually the drunk fisherman, JVDB finds some mild evidence of a possible kraken. He consults his boss, showing his findings, and his boss blows him off. Claiming JVDB is just trying to one up is famous dad, he cuts his funding. Asshole!
With nothing to lose, JVDB moves into helping the search and finding the truth. The two gangs of fishermen keep causing problems and getting into bar fights, and none of this does anything to help. It isn't until the kraken attacks one of the biggest asshole fishermen on a dock, that finally, they agree, there might be something that could possibly maybe do some sort of attacking from under the water in the lake. Maybe it has something to do with the no fish and the constant death on the lake. Maybe. Just maybe.
So, in an act of peace, the two rival fishermen gangs set out to murder the kraken. JVDB and the sheriff are on board, and they set out to put the kraken down. How? Tiny ass harpoons.
Well, it goes mostly as expected.
Both boats get mauled by the giant kraken, as harpoons for lake fish don't really do much to a gargantuan octopus. The Cree boat is slaughtered, and the kraken turns its attention to the boat with JVBD.
The boat is attacked, and several crew members die, either by drowning or tentacle face removal. As the group realizes they went after a kraken with absolutely no real weapons, it takes some time for JVDB to develop a fool proof plan.
Kraken taser.
Yes. Yes. This does happen. They hook a harpoon up to the battery for the boat, and when the beast surfaces in the dark night time to cover the bad CGI, the sheriff throws the taser into, wait for it...
THE EYE OF THE BEAST.
And then they proceed to tase him bro. The eye taser is mostly effective, eventually finishing off the beast, and giving a moment for the sheriff and JVDB to finally make out.
All in all, the acting wasn't bad, I mean with JVDB how could it be anything but superb? The story and action were alright, and the creature effects were a mix of CGI and practical, and actually not as bad as I thought they would be.
I spent $1.88 on this film. Was it worth it?
Absolutely.
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