FRANKENFISH

2004 | DIRECTOR. MARK DIPPE | REVIEW BY GLENN COCHRANE.

Once upon a time director Mark Dippéwas a prominent visual FX artist for Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, and he worked on films like The Abyss, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and Ghost amongst others. From there, he tried his hand at directing and gave us the highly ambitious Spawn, which, despite all efforts to recapture the success of The Crow, was met with disapproval and condemnation.

Despite the failure of Spawn, he demonstrated a clear talent, and for his next film he would tackle the creature feature genre with a direct-to-DVD title called Frankenfish. This was a film that I first saw upon release and I remember being impressed. My memory recalls it being an effective and refreshing take on the genre, boasting a good production design and great special effects. It’s a movie that few people know about, and perhaps that’s due in part to the creature-feature boom of the late 90s being all but dead. It follows in the steps of Lake Placid and Anaconda, and had it been made a few years earlier it might have enjoyed a bigger budget and a better reception.

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