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Peter Benchley's "Creature"?

post #1 of 14
1/21/03 at 4:15pm
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has anyone heard of or seen this? i caught the last few minutes of it on cable a week or so ago and hadn't heard of it before. it starred Poltergeist dad/Coach Craig T. Nelson and laminated human Kim Cattrall, and apparently revolved around an island where a vacationing family comes across some genetic experiment lab. the end of the movie had this huge walking shark thing stalking them, like just a big dude with a giant shark head. at first i thought it looked really cheesy but the thing actually didn't look all that bad.

anyway... anyone?
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post #2 of 14
1/21/03 at 4:24pm
I saw it a few months ago, I think on the Hallmark channel. It was cheesy as hell, but fun.
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post #3 of 14
1/21/03 at 4:39pm
Benchley's Creature is good fun IMO. There are a few tense scenes in there, especially one part when the kids are having a diving competition off the side of a cliff.

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post #4 of 14
1/21/03 at 4:43pm
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Ugly Goblin Boy, Slave #1273:
You could tell it was a Benchley movie cause the monster exploded at the end.
Actually, you can tell it's a Benchley movie because it's based around the same idea that he's been trying to milk for the last 30 odd years. Big monster + The Sea.

Let it go now, Pete. Just let it go.
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post #5 of 14
1/21/03 at 5:38pm
I remember watching this film a few years back. I I think if what little memory I have left serves properly I really liked it!
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post #6 of 14
1/21/03 at 5:41pm
Pure creature feature with a phenomenal amount of cheese. Stan Winston created the monster - doesn't look too shabby. A big plus is that it's got Kim Cattral...delicious.

Too long of a film for such a fun, but cheesy, idea. Could've been an hour and a half...max.
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post #7 of 14
1/21/03 at 9:37pm
The Scifi channel has been playing this all year. I finally got to watch it and I enjoyed it quite a lot. Its pretty good for a made for TV movie.
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post #8 of 14
1/21/03 at 9:38pm
Hopefully it was better than The Beast.
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post #9 of 14
1/21/03 at 9:41pm
The Beast is not a good movie.

(how's that?)

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post #10 of 14
2/15/03 at 11:29am
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so, this was on again the other night, and i came across it at almost the exact same moment i did a couple weeks ago.

monster actually looked better the second time.
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post #11 of 14
2/15/03 at 11:40am
It was based on a book called WHITE SHARK, which was then retitled CREATURE after the TV show. The book about about a Nazi half-man/half-shark hybrid created for one reason: to kill.

The fact that it's sea beast makes it special to me.
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post #12 of 14
2/15/03 at 11:43am
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Nick Nunziata:


The fact that it's sea beast makes it special to me.
Ditto. After seeing Jaws, pretty much anything sea-related attracted me, especially shark stuff.
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post #13 of 14
2/15/03 at 7:39pm
I remember reading White Shark in high school after reading a review of it in SFX. Their reviewer thought that it just a shark. The movie creature was just as I imagined it.
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post #14 of 14
2/18/03 at 1:39pm
The book is MUCH better than the movie.
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