Terrorism is a constant threat to the American way of life. All around us evil-doers seek to destroy us and cause mayhem at every opportunity, but we have something we have been keeping secret until now. Is it super soldiers? No. A crack secret military intelligence team? Not even close. A squad of genetically mutated great white sharks known as project Blue Demon? Bingo! Now our big secret is out, not because of espionage, but because they have all escaped!

Blue Demon is a killer fish flick that is dead on arrival and should have been flushed down the toilet.

A bunch of friends were sitting around watching Deep Blue Sea, one of them spoke up and said “Hey we can make a movie, just like that one!” And three hours later Blue Demon was done and on your local video store shelves.

This is a terrible-ass movie from start to finish and that’s the truth. The plot is insane, see if you can follow this one: Two scientists who are having marital problems are working on an experiment for a university that is ran by a maniacal midget to make sharks smarter, faster and able to breath in salt and fresh water. Why, you ask? Because the military wants to use the sharks in order to stop terrorists from attacking America!

I have no idea how it will work either, but hey, I didn’t write this garbage heap. The midget is being pressured by the military to have the sharks ready to go for a test mission. But before he can sell them to the military brass, the sharks escape and head off into public waters! OH NO!

Something about this film that had me crying was the fact that the sharks were kept in their holding bay by a gigantic electric fence that worked in the water! How in the hell did these geniuses think that would work?

Anyway as bad as the story is, the sets and effects are even worse. All of the sets are the same room with the furniture slightly arranged differently to give the appearance of different rooms and the effects. Dear Lord. The CGI truthfully isn’t that bad and is a lot better than some of the other low budget CGI I have seen, what kills in this one are the scenes where they use two rubber fins for the sharks. One is a big dorsal fin the other is a smaller tail fin, the problem is the divers working the fins are always out of line and the tail fin is nearly ten feet away from the dorsal and when they show the shark slowly turning away, you can’t help but laugh out loud as it takes nearly ten minutes for the guys to get it going. There is also hardly any gore or kills at all, I guess they spent their entire budget on the rubber for the fins and the casting of Deedee Pfeiffer and Jeff Fahey, as a terrible over the top character named General Remora (get it?)

Nothing can save Blue Demon from itself. Avoid at all costs and I’m a huge fan of killer shark flicks.

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