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Zaat
Blood Waters of Dr. Z / Attack of the Swamp Creatures / Hydra / Legend of the Zaat Monster

USA 1971
produced by
Don Barton for Barton Films
directed by Don Barton
starring Marshall Grauer, Wade Popwell, Paul Galloway, Gerald Cruse, Sanna Ringhaver, Dave Dickerson, Rich Valliere, Nancy Lien, Russell Holcomb, Gloria Brady, Del Galloway, Hal Nearhoof, Jim Merrill, Elizabeth Barton, Bob Knowles, Carol Thompson, Jack Weatherford
story by Ron Kivett, Lee O.Larew, screenplay by Don Barton, music by Jamie DeFrates, Barry Hodgin, creature costume by Ron Kivett, Martha Fillyaw, Les Lancaster

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Scientist Dr Leopold (Marshall Grauer) has spent his time and research to cross men and catfish to create a new superrace, much to the disdain of his colleagues, who wouldn't allow him human guineapigs. So he first tests Zaat, his drug to turn a human into catfish-man (henceforth referred to as monster), on himself - et voilà, he becomes a monster (Wade Popwell), and soon enough, he goes out on a killing spree, killing the scientists who have turned him down first, then other people as well. And he abducts a woman to turn her into his monster consort, but with no success.

Eventually, the local sheriff (Paul Galloway) and marine biologist Rex (Gerald Cruse), who are investigating the murders call in Martha (Sanna Ringhaver) and Walker (Dave Dickerson), the good people from gouvernment agency INPIT (?), to help them investigate, and eventually, the four of them come to all the right conclusions, that Dr Leopold has been conducting some sinister experiments that must have created a monster. But when the three men go out monsterhunting and leave Martha behind, they overlook the possibility that Martha might be the monster's next target, the woman he might want to turn into his monster consort.

In the finale, our heroes do everything in their power to free Martha and destroy the monster, who wants to presently poison all water for humans, and Rex and the sheriff even lose their lives in battle ... but all to no avail, the monster survives, and Martha has apparently been turned into a maritime creature (even if other than Dr Leopold, she still looks quite human).

 

Somehow, this film more than anything looks like a continuation of the tradition of 1950's indie drive-in monster movies, where the budget is way too low to bring the story properly alive - and thus the monster costume looks cheap to ridiculous, large scale problems are treated on a small scale, the science the film is based on is grossly off, the scientist's lab looks very hodge-podge, and the film is devoid of any real setpieces. Now this was all ok and charming in the 1950's, when the genre was still relatively new and innocent, but not so much so anymore in the 1970's, when people should have known better.

That's not to say the film's a total waste of time (unless of course you're really not into bad movies), there are still things to laugh about - it just makes you wonder why films of this ilk were still made in the 1970's.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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