burnadrenaline This is a bad movie, I think my rating is probably a bit generous because I have watched so many b-movies. However, it has two redeeming qualities. Unintentional humor and the fact that it is one of the weirder weird movies I've ever seen. Essentially, the guy is a disgruntled scientist with a lot of weird lab equipment and free time. The lab is pretty funny, as it has all kinds of arbitrary lab equipment, which, perhaps, looked less low- budget in the seventies when the movie was made. Anyway, the guy has some kind of obsession with trying to turn himself (and perhaps others) into catfish that can walk on land. I'm not kidding, and it gets even weirder... The scientist then goes on a bit of a revenge-killing spree and kills several of the scientists that doubted him on something some many years ago or wouldn't help fund his research, I don't really remember which. Anyway, the guy gets a crush on a blonde woman and decides that he wants to run off with her and form an empire of sea creatures (I'm still not kidding).Does he make it? I won't tell you. However, I will say that the police in this movie are remarkably bad shots.

poe426 There's one thing that ZAAT has going for it that very few monster movies do: it delivers the goods early on and doesn't skimp. I'm referring, of course, to the monster itself. In 99.9% of monster movies, the viewer is left wanting more (if not ANY) of the titular creature. ZAAT boldly breaks with tradition and gives us an active, almost always on-screen creature doing his best to wreak havoc on the local populace. He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer (he IS a mutant monster, after all- nor was he any worldbeater BEFORE his transformation, either), but he does his best. It helps that the locals make some serious errors in judgement when confronting our hero (like the sheriff who starts to draw his gun when he runs afoul of our hero, then opts to use it as a club rather than a firearm), but that's a big part of what makes the movie so much fun. ZAAT's costume is pretty neat (yes, I'm well aware that the fur is there to hide the seams, but so what?) and it's refreshing to run into a No Budget movie that just keeps plugging away to the very end. I've seen a LOT of movies a lot worse.

Rens Gouw Wow! I watched this movie several times, because it was awesome. I really laughed throughout the entire movie! Fighting scenes without hitting, terrible soundtrack, people acting worse than the TNA Wrestling contestants, the lead actor visibly waiting for his cue AND a dragging, unconvincing sentimental scene at the end. This movie has it all. It really is THE flick for some late night entertainment with no suspense, only kick-ass slap-stick scenes put together. Of course this was not the intention of the makers, but with their budget, you can hardly expect anything more. This movie has an enormous cultural value. Although I agree with the IMDb's 1.7 for it's genre (horror/thriller) it deserves a ten for bringing joy and laughter in the world. Thanks Don Barton, I enjoyed every moment!

Zeegrade Dr. Leopold really has a lot of free time on his hands. Somehow in between bong hits he devised through twisted logic that he can dominate the world with fish. Exactly how humanity is going to be conquered by animals that can't survive on land isn't really hashed out. He had an idea and the mad doctor is running with it. At least he maintains a detailed itinerary that keep his looniness on schedule. Dr. Leopold, with some help from "the weed of deceit", turns into a catfish monster that more resembles one of the aliens from "Pod People". Next on his agenda is a mate to quell his raging fish libido drawing him to spy on an average looking blond woman that apparently lives in a van down by the river. An inept sheriff and his marine biologist assistant? friend? neighbor? Rex investigate a series of dopey fish related incidences by the local yahoos. When they realize that what they are after is a large fish-man-type-thing they try to capture it with the help of a husband and wife team of special "agents" that seem too interested in this case. Boredom aplenty as monster attacks locals, good guys follow, repeat makes this slower than a turtle with no legs encased in cement. At one point the sheriff stumbles upon some hippie vagrants, stops to listen to their dopey song, then like the Pied Piper leads them to jail for protection from the beast. Or maybe he was arresting them for the terrible song that was shamelessly played in its entirety. I do have to say that I was pretty impressed with the underwater shots for such a low budget film. That in itself saved this from getting a one. The incorporation of the various fish themed nature films with Dr. Leopold's inane dialogue dubbed over it just reeks of amateur hour film-making. I watched the unedited movie, which I recommend all MST3K fan's should do, on TCM and it really is a chore to watch. Trying to sit through this without the aid of Mike and the Bots quips is a task in itself. Not a fun bad movie but an extremely boring bad movie that could only be help by ingesting large amounts of a certain weed.