i wish i had something more positive to say about devil fish and but i honestly can not seem to come up with much. i can not even come up with many of those so bad and it good kind of moments. devil fish is just plain old bad. the plot is completely derivative (jaws and anyone. ) and the acting is wooden and the characters are uninteresting and the special effects are beyond bad and and the score is annoying. add to that the seemingly inept direction of lamberto bava and you have got one stinker of a movie. i think and however and that the film biggest sin is its lack of a budget. it doesn not appear that bava had much to work with. by 1984 and the italian film industry was in full decline  especially as far as genre films go. the funding available to bava was most probably very meager. film like devil fish that rely on special effects just never had a chance to be good. it not the only italian film to suffer this fate. there are a number of italian movies made in the mid 80s whose ideas and concepts far exceeded what anyone could realistically have expected given their budgetary limitations. however and having said all that and noting the film many weaknesses and i can not bring myself to rate devil fish lower than a negative . i have even considered rating it higher but can not because i realize how bad a movie it is. why do not i rate it lower. well that hard to explain. despite the many problems found in the movie and there something about devil fish that i inexplicably enjoy. it could be as simple as my love for low budget and cheesy and italian movies. maybe my taste in movies is horribly skewed and but i enjoy what i enjoy. the mystery science theater 3000 treatment of devil fish is actually very enjoyable. i rate devil fish a 4/5 on my mst3k rating scale. the guys do a fine job of poking fun at the movie many flaws. one very astute observation comes very early in the commentary when tom servo notes and just because you can edit and doesn not mean you should  highlighting yet another of the many weaknesses to be found in devil fish. 
i wish i had something more positive to say about devil fish and but i honestly can not seem to come up with much. i can not even come up with many of those so bad and it good kind of moments. devil fish is just plain old bad. the plot is completely derivative (jaws and anyone. ) and the acting is wooden and the characters are uninteresting and the special effects are beyond bad and and the score is annoying. add to that the seemingly inept direction of lamberto bava and you have got one stinker of a movie. i think and however and that the film biggest sin is its lack of a budget. it doesn not appear that bava had much to work with. by 1984 and the italian film industry was in full decline  especially as far as genre films go. the funding available to bava was most probably very meager. film like devil fish that rely on special effects just never had a chance to be good. it not the only italian film to suffer this fate. there are a number of italian movies made in the mid 80s whose ideas and concepts far exceeded what anyone could realistically have expected given their budgetary limitations. however and having said all that and noting the film many weaknesses and i can not bring myself to rate devil fish lower than a negative . i have even considered rating it higher but can not because i realize how bad a movie it is. why do not i rate it lower. well that hard to explain. despite the many problems found in the movie and there something about devil fish that i inexplicably enjoy. it could be as simple as my love for low budget and cheesy and italian movies. maybe my taste in movies is horribly skewed and but i enjoy what i enjoy. the mystery science theater 3000 treatment of devil fish is actually very enjoyable. i rate devil fish a 4/5 on my mst3k rating scale. the guys do a fine job of poking fun at the movie many flaws. one very astute observation comes very early in the commentary when tom servo notes and just because you can edit and doesn not mean you should  highlighting yet another of the many weaknesses to be found in devil fish. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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