Leofwine_draca SEA BEAST is a rip-roaring little B-movie that shamelessly rips off the likes of PREDATOR in its tale of a marauding sea monster that comes up on land to stalk and eat hapless human prey, utilising its ability to make its invisible in the meantime. Hell, at one point the hero even says "It bleeds..." and you can almost see the scriptwriters winking at the viewers.Like most B-movies, this film has its problems. The direction is slightly meandering, but at least the director avoids that annoying and pointless shaky-cam so beloved of B-flick helmers in recent years. The script is hardly polished; we're subjected to padded lines like "If we lose our heads, we're dead" and "I saw it...with my own eyes" and the no-name cast hardly give remarkable performances.And yet, and yet, SEA BEAST is a lot of fun, it's hard to deny. The pacing is spot on, with the viewer thrown straight into the monster action - none of that slow build up nonsense here, just mayhem and death. The CGI effects are pretty poor, yes, but you feel the animators have at least tried to do what they can with the technology available.And it's GORY, damn it! Entrails are strewn asunder and heads torn loose, all captured with loving relish. It's hard to dislike this stuff. At one point, the chief critter gives birth to lots of little critters, like in a scene from Emmerich's ill-advised GODZILLA, but SEA BEAST definitely has the edge on that movie, as unlike GODZILLA it's a real hoot!

Paul Magne Haakonsen "Sea Beast" (aka. Troglodyte) was actually a rather nice surprise of a movie. I picked up the DVD from Amazon based on the cover of the movie, because it looked interesting.The story in "Sea Beast" takes place at a coastal community. A local, struggling, fisherman witnesses something taking one of his crew at sea during a storm. Then people start dying at land, and it appears that some aquatic creature have followed the fishing vessel back to land. Can the people stop the deep sea predator before it is too late and can they find the nest? Now, that story was actually quite alright, despite it being very cliché and predictable. But still, it was enjoyable.Actually the creature design and effects were actually quite good. Think up a weird mix of the Deep Ones (to those familiar with Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology) and predator, then you have a basic idea of the creatures found in "Sea Beast". I like the way the creatures looked and the CGI was believable enough - except for the super fake boating scene that you are introduced to within the first minute of the movie. Now that was just hilarious.The acting in "Sea Beast" was adequate, of course nothing award-winning, but not bad like so many other movies. Corin Nemec (playing Will McKenna) has the lead role, and you can say what you will about him, but he actually did a good job in this movie."Sea Beast" was great entertainment and I do enjoy monster movies, sadly most of such movies end up being crap. "Sea Beast", however, was quite alright. Despite being predictable to the core, "Sea Beast" turned out to be a nice surprise.

Coventry Sigh, after being a horror fan for more than twenty years, I still make the same old rookie mistake of getting lured into watching dumb, nonsensical crap just because it has an enticing DVD-cover… With just a minimum of research in advance, I would have noticed that this is another run of the mill made-for-TV creature feature released by the infamous Sci-Fi Channel. These flicks are aimed at a very undemanding audience and derivative of approximately a dozen of other – far more original – movies. "Sea Beast", or "Troglodyte" as it's officially called apparently, is a clumsy hodgepodge of genre clichés and all too obviously borrowed ideas that just look pathetic in this movie's context. The plot takes place in a small seaside community and begins with a fatigue, old-timer fisherman returning from a hectic trip where he lost one of his crew members during a storm. Will McKenna witnessed how a large monstrous sea creature grabbed his helper, but naturally nobody onshore believes him and he becomes the laughing stock of the town. He finds a drunkard in town who also saw the creature, but naturally he doesn't want to help. Oh and – also naturally – Will has a rebellious teenage daughter who disregards daddy's warnings and heads off to a little island to party with a few friends. The titular "sea" beast turns out to be a ravenous creature that is also able to live on land and even in trees. Nobody knows where it comes from and the script doesn't bother to explain, but presumably it's a distant relative of the aliens in "Predator", as it can become transparent and attacks its victims from high up in trees. Several sequences are bluntly and shamelessly copied from "Predator", but the film also borrows success-elements from other horror favorites, like "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park". The monsters look like ludicrous computer-engineered experiments designed by an over-enthusiast bunch of geeks that couldn't unanimously agree on a decent design. Dumb and forgettable TV-horror.

Jimmy Johns Bad acting, Crappy CGI, Predictable plot... All combined to into one awesome movie.So you get some hilarious looking frog, lizard, fish, invisible thing that comes out of the sea to some small harbor town and kills people by paralyzing them with spit then eating them so one guy sees it and nobody believes him. Then after so one runs into the town diner and describes exactly what the other guy did. So all the men pull the shotguns, hunting rifles, one guy had a sniper I think out of no where like they had an ammo locker in there pockets the ride out and all get owned... Need I say more watch it and laugh your head off.