[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

CREATURES FROM THE ABYSS – What sticks in my mind is the massive toy bear they find in one of the rooms. I like the way it’s just ‘there’. It crops up again, looming in silhouette against a moody blue backdrop. It’s probably the same room, but that bear really deserved its moment. ‘Creatures From The Abyss’ shows signs of being a movie – it has credits, scenes, and a plot about some students on a ship with mutant fish – but, even watching it, it feels like a hazy memento of the time when someone was forcibly medicated. Only ever fragments, bizarre, boring, or just awful. Or awe-full! A cyclops mermaid clock murmurs as if in mourning for the Italian trash epic that was never truly hers. A science-oriented young man tells a woman in a bikini to fry him a fish so that someone can yak up yellow puke crawling with plastic insects. One of the possibly evil scientists responsible for the fish mutants appears just long enough to make a half-muted joke about the age of consent. What else happens? An eye plops out and lands in someone’s mouth during a bout of fish sex, that’s what! And there are tendrils… ‘Creatures From The Abyss’ is stifling / enlivening. The same genius made ‘The Mummy Theme Park’. Listen to the guy in the black overcoat – you may find yourself staring into ‘Creatures From The Abyss’, but don’t stare too long. You might find that mermaid cyclops clock staring back at you.

I genuinely like Creatures from the Abyss. I'd pick up a Blu-ray (at a decent price) in a shot.

I want to watch it again now.