Filmic Friday 21: Blood Waters of Dr Z aka ZaaT

Movie: The Blood Waters of Dr Z (MST3K)
Format: Digital (Shout Factory app on Roku)

This is so much cooler than the movie.
There are no scuba fins, no catfish attacks, and the monster looks much dumber.

Sargasm

Sorry, had to start with that. That's how this movie starts: with a terrible voiceover blathering on about sargasm and fish being better than people. The rest of the movie isn't much better. There's just not much you can do with a plot where it hinges on a weirdo who turns himself into a fishman and just wants to make himself a girlfriend fishlady.

Spoilers:
He half-succeeds by the end.

Now, we watched the MST3K, so there were plenty of jokes to keep us from going bananas watching this heap. If you're offended by dude chests, look away, though. At one point in the MST3K episode, the 'bots are trying to convince Mike that any scene is better when played in the nude. Brain Guy and Professor Bobo oblige.

With a scene from Glengarry Glen Ross, of all things...

As for the movie itself, it's fairly boring, but it does have its interesting points. I'm chiefly interested in learning what drugs the filmmakers were on when they came up with a movie about an evil catfish-obsessed scientist...

It's like the Creature from the Black Lagoon got ripped off by LJN...

I missed maybe 90% of the plot, but I doubt any plot can really explain why the Fish Doctor wound up getting crunk on a bad pharmacy set.

Because when I think "pharmacy" I think "pegboard and a mini fridge with no lock".

I'm also not sure why his first attempt at making a girlfriend failed.

And why does her bathing suit have weird stains now?

I'm not sure who the main heroes are besides "hickish cop" and "virtuous scientist man"

Shown here with "inexplicable wheel of bad science!"

I'm not sure why a guy obsessed with walking catfish, a freshwater specie, wants to dump his catfish-man-juice in the ocean, either...

Or why the movie ends with him winning?

The ending, which has his slightly more successful victim walking out into the sea in a daze while one of the heroes calls out to her, makes absolutely no sense. Nothing makes sense in this movie.

But it is a lot of fun!

If you like bad monster movies, terrible mad scientist movies, and MST3K, give The Blood Waters of Doctor Z a try. If you can't find it under that title, then try it under ZaaT! because that's the original title and the name of the fish-juice in the weird red hotdog under his arm...

That's all for me this week!

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