When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.

A scientist obsessed with saving his son’s life turns to experiments that have him playing god and toying with other people’s lives. Through his work, Dr. Preston King has been able to splice human DNA with stem cells from hammerhead sharks and the results are horrifying. When the financiers of his work come to his secluded island to see his progress in “cancer research,” they find something totally different waiting for them and it’s hungry. Something smells fishy in this one and it isn’t the chum bucket!

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy is a very predictable low budget horror, but being the shark fan I am, I had to go ahead and rent it for hell of it, plus it stars William Forsythe and Jeffery Coombs.

The plot of the film goes down many different paths that affect the flow of the story. It goes from mad scientist to creature flick to action, back to mad scientist in about every other scene and it just kind of keeps repeating itself over and over.

The effects are fairly bad as the creature goes from guy in a rubber suit to claymation-esque CGI. There is some blood splashes and limbs bit off but nothing all that amazing. The action sequences are what are truly terrible and they are laughable to put it nicely.

On the good side, however, Hammerhead does have two good performances from Forsythe and Coombs. In the lead Forsythe’s gruff voice and mannerisms carry over well and Coombs seems to be playing a slightly more twisted version of Herbert West, which is always fun to watch. Hammerhead also has millions of gallons of ice cold, crystal blue ocean water and many well tanned braless beauties in white halter tops and that’s always a good mixture in my opinion, even if the plot lines of the story are more like oil and water.

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