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Blood Surf [VHS]

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Blood surfing, the new extreme sport of this millennium. Get some cheesy, overacted surfer dudes and throw them in some shark infested, chum laden water and let them go. Sounds like the makings for a fun action/adventure/horror movie. But Trimark apparently wasn't convinced; they wanted more, so the director gave them more.

After just barely getting out of the water without becoming lunch, the "brooding" surfer dives back in to save the beautiful camera lady from the increasingly wild group of sharks. Narrowly dodging both tooth and fin the crew all make it to the surface alive, and after witnessing what seems to be a brutal inter water grudge match between warring jaws clans, they decide to call it a day, and head inland...........Where they are attacked by a group of Colombian terrorist, Rambo's friend stealing paramilitary types, captured, brought back to their boat and threatened with rape and torture.

You can almost hear the pitch guy, sweating dripping from his brow. The executives didn't like the shark idea, and it's up to him and him alone to save the movie. "Well it's not only the sharks, you see these sleazy Colombian coke smugglers types show up and pull them all onto a boat." He scans the room, they all appear a little happier, but not much, then it hits him. "Where they are all attacked by the biggest Salt Water Crocodile the world has ever seen." Smiles all around, the movie is saved.

Blood Surf's "story" is pulled in more directions than the Backstreet Boys thrown into a Junior High Girl's Gym Locker Room. We've got hot shark dodging action, Terrorist attacks, wild jungle traps, a surfer's love affair with a beautiful, yet underage local girl. Oh yea, and the Cheesiest Crocodile the world of Giant Crocodile Cinema has ever seen. The underwater scenes alone are enough to make anybody roll on the floor laughing. What looks like a rubber crocodile on a string, bluescreened into these stock footage underwater shots, shooting through the ocean with a menacing wiggle.

I couldn't say that I would recommend this movie to most people, but I must stress that for anybody with a love of the cheesy, this film will qualify as a must. Never before have I born witness to such audacity, ripping off entire scenes from other (and better) films with a reckless abandon that one wonders if the movie is trying to crawl into out and out parody. Remember the scene in Jaws where Quint slips down the wet floor of the sinking boat and into the shark's mouth, Its here. Remember the scene in Crocodile where the croc flips the kid with the died red hair up into the air and it comes back down landing in its mouth. That one's here to. Shots at Rambo, Moby Dick, Point Break, and even a little Indiana Jones all come together to form this stew of low budget, American exploitation cinema.

Food, Folks and fun, Roger Corman would be proud.

A group of young people go to a tropical island to "blood surf", cut themselves and surf in shark-infested waters and make a documentary about it. Soon they realize that there's not only sharks, but also a gigantic crocodile, eating everybody who trespasses his area. It also has some subplot about some modern day pirates and a revengeful sightseeing boat captain.

The screenplay is very silly and quite bad. The lead characters are stupid (otherwise they wouldn't be blood surfing) and don't seem to care much when some of their friends gets killed. Most of the actors are mediocre at best, except for Katie Fischer, who plays the photographer, Cecily. The editing is also quite poor and manages to ruin one scene that could have been quite cool. The worst thing about the movie, however, is probably the extremely bad crocodile FX. It doesn't even move its legs while swimming.

So, this is not a good movie, and I didn't expect it to be. Still, it is entertaining enough to be a painless way to kill one and a half hours if you're bored and don't have too high expectations on it.

My personal enjoyment rating: 6 out of 10

My recommendation rating: 5.5 out of 10. Explanation of recommendation rating: "You'll probably enjoy this film only if you're a hardcore fan of the genre. More than its share of flaws. Serious genre fans should use caution and all others should stay away."

The premise (modified from the box description): Follow an MTV style filmmaker as she and her crew shoot an expose of the latest, most dangerous craze in extreme sports-bloodsurfing, or surfing in shark infested waters while intentionally trying to attract the creatures. While trying to shoot in Australia, the crew encounters non-cooperative locals and various kinds of relationship problems. They also get more than they bargained for while bloodsurfing in an isolated location. Not only are the sharks putting them at risk, but there just may be a legendary monster in the water.

"Mish-mash" describes this film better than such a non-technical term should. The premise is a mish-mash of Lake Placid, Anaconda, and tens of other monster films, with some touches of adventure and romance thrown in for (good?) measure. The quality of the film is a mish-mash of a too-confusing script with more than its share of holes, some pretty hokey dialogue, and some decent direction, editing and performances, with surprisingly good cinematography, occasional moments of tension, and the requisite beautiful actresses.

The biggest problems seem to arise from the script, which isn't very straightforward about what bloodsurfing is, why it is popular, what the relationships are among the principle characters, who some later characters are and why they are taking the actions they're taking. Still, the premise is easy enough to figure out after a few minutes, and the potential of the story, if not quite its execution, is intriguing enough. Horror fans who don't mind films with fairly transparent influences and who are forgiving some fairly obvious mechanical beasts and miniatures should find enough redeeming aspects to keep them entertained for 87 minutes.

The DVD released in 2001 by Trimark contains two special features--about six or seven minutes of raw footage, which is interesting if you are a intrigued with the mechanics of filmmaking, but which could benefit from some commentary, and storyboards for a few scenes that are accessible while the film is playing the relevant chapters.

this movie was great! it had everything you want in a fantastically terrible movie: campy story, pointless violence and nudity, cheesy acting and most importantly a terrible looking Crocodile! what fun!

You have the whole movie in a nutshell from the above plot description. However, it was just plain awful! I love all types of horror movies and I will admit that I saw this one.

The whole thing was just a mess. The acting was so bad that you were cheering on the croc to kill off the actors.

If you want to waste some time and have to see this one I would suggest that you borrow it from someone who has it or wait for a re-run of this on the sci-fi channel. Save your $!

This movie is about people who go to a trpoical island to film there two surfers but this movie has a bad plot and the salt water crocodile looks very fake and computer animized It is all true take my advice and dont buy this movie to watch bad characters and a really fake croc!!!!!!!!

Director Hickox has matured, fulfilling the potential he showed with 1995's breathtaking Children of the Corn III, but it's Navarro's turn as a tenderhearted pirate named Coco that makes this one a winner. He transforms the movie from your garden variety sociopathic-crocodile psychodrama to an odyssey into the true "blood surf" we all must do when we explore our lineages. For example, I'm 1/8 Iroquois Indian, and I recently did a "blood surf" up to Warren, Pennsylvania to get the Iroquois to vouch for me so that I could get some coin for law school. Then I "blood surfed" right up to the "Native American" box on my LSATs and checked "show me the money!" Booyeah!

Anyway, back to the movie: it's subtle, and it's earthy, and it digs deep. Deeper than blood. Deeper than surfing. Deeper than the black hole of a crocodile's pupil as he gazes into yours. He cocks his head a centimeter to the side. You wonder if he's sincere. You've heard all the lines, had your heart broken before. His claws stroke your hand lovingly, and there's a tenderness in his nostrils. And as you close your eyes and lean into his large, reptillian chest and sway to the music, you know you've finally let yourself love, and it feels as though the night will never end.

Bog was very handsome guy. Blood Surf is extremely good movie and Blood Surf is very best crocodile movie i ever seen that movie.R rated for strong sexuality,gore violence,gory images

Originally called "Krocodylus" and released in the US in 2001, "Blood Surf" is the wackiest crocogator flick I've seen. The plot throws in everything but the kitchen sink in its attempt to entertain; and the croc, when finally seen, is laughably fake-looking.

The pitch-meeting for "Blood Surf" possibly went something like this: The pitcher excitedly describes the basic plot: "A couple of radical surfers go to a tropical island known for shark attacks so they can capture themselves on camera 'blood surfing' -- cutting their feet to bleed and wildly surfing the shark-infested waters." When he gets a silent reaction, he adds, "Okay, um, let's see... then this huge saltwater croc comes out of nowhere and starts eating the sharks... and proceeds to chase the surfers on to the island." More disinterest. "Where they encounter some Rambo-esque militarists and jungle booby traps a la Indiana Jones." More solemn looks. "In addition, the camera operator is a hot Aussie chick and there's also a hot island girl." An eyebrow or two stirs. "And one surfer has sex in the surf with the island chick and later discovers she's underaged." Eye's brighten. "On top of all that there's a Captain Ahab-like character who's hell-bent on killing the croc." More interest. "Who has a skinny girlfriend with a flat chest which she exposes every 10 minutes." Smiling faces. "She has a cool dance sequence at the pub-on-the-beach where the dudes ogle in fascination, even though she's really not sexy at all." Now the pitcher has their undivided attention. "And she and 'Ahab' have sex on the dock while she's bent over the railing." Enthralled. "And we'll throw in a score that sounds like the Beach Boys meets the 60's Batman theme." "What about the ending?" they ask. "The climatic stand-off will take place in some ancient ruins a la 'Congo'." Now totally hooked. "And even though the croc will be laughable and cheap we'll throw in a couple of 'Jaws' homages." The deal is made.

That's pretty much "Blood Surf" in all it's low-budget, odd, irrational non-glory. But, hey, at least it tries hard to be entertaining.

As for the un-sexy, too-skinny, flat-chested girl who keeps exposing herself and trying to be alluring, I couldn't help wonder why the filmmakers added her into the mix. It's really inexplicable since, although she's sorta pretty, she just doesn't cut it, if you know what I mean. But then it hit me that they already have the conventional hot babe (Kate Fischer) and the hot island girl (Maureen Larrazabal), so the creators were evidently giving a nod to all the skinny, non-curvy ladies out there. Not every woman can be Kim Kardashian, after all, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be given their honored due now and then, kind of like scraps from the table. Just joking. Hey, I'm sure there are some guys out there who find the skinny girl sexy. It takes all kinds to make a world. (And I'm not at all mocking flat-chested women since I don't mind women with small or no breasts, I even used to be involved with one; I'm talking about nigh-anorexic women with zero curves).

The film runs 84 minutes and was shot in the Philipines.

BOTTOM LINE: "Blood Surf" is not a good movie in any way, shape or form, but you gotta respect its exuberant attempts to amuse.

GRADE: C- (but with solid entertainment value, IF you're in the right mode)

I am one of those people that enjoys "when animals attack" movies. This movie failed in every way it could with the exception of a few funny lines of dialogue. Bad acting, bad script and horrid special effects this movie isn't even laughably bad, it's just bad.