10 Screamingly Funny Horror Films (That Weren't Supposed To Be Comedies)
4. Aquanoids
The best babes-versus-sea-monsters movie The Asylum never made, Aquanoids rips off everything from Jaws to Humanoids From The Deep, mounts it all on a budget of $1.98 and refuses to take itself seriously, ensuring a gloriously tacky time is had by all.
In amongst the gratuitous nudity, silly monsters and amateurish performances is the story of a big-breasted “environmentalist” who tries to convince the Mayor that the fish monsters that attacked the town 16 years ago have returned, which nobody wants to hear because it’s July 4th weekend. Mr Mayor is also planning a multi-million dollar shopping mall with some shady developers, so when chewed-up bodies wash ashore, he convinces the pathologist to write it up as a “boating accident.”
Considering the monsters look suspiciously like actors in bad masks, everyone takes the threat seriously, none more so than a Quint-like hunter who says, “I’m gonna mount you on the board, I’m gonna hang you in the living room and I’m gonna count every one of them 10, 000 bucks.” Then a creature tears his face off, so he really should’ve kept his mouth shut.