Spasms (1983)
Dir. William Fruet No Animal Attack movie will ever be as good as Jaws . This is painfully obvious, especially considering that this sub-genre is now almost exclusively relegated to the SyFy Channel. And that’s a shame. If these movies had more respect and bigger budgets they’d be able to have better effects than the low resolution gifs they use to render their bloodthirsty juggernauts. Puppets and animatronics don’t always look great, but 99 out of 100 times they’re better than the stock animations we see in these movies today. And if you combine them with with an interesting narrative hook or two, you might have a solid piece of schlock on your hands. Spasms is just this. A solid piece of schlock. It was never gonna be as good as Jaws , but Jaws doesn’t feature Oliver Reed getting into a knife fight with a giant snake. So which one is the real winner? The plot begins in New Guinea, where indigenous peoples are performing a ceremony to conjure up a Snake demon-god...