TheLittleSongbird A lot of people were exposed to Blood Waters of Dr Z through MST3K, myself included. The episode wasn't one of the classics, but it was funny and summed up very well what was wrong with the movie. The movie itself is one of the kind that makes your jaw drop just at the thought of it. The underwater photography is not so bad, beautiful is not how I describe it but it is the asset that is the least amateurish regarding Blood Waters of Dr Z. The rest is amateurish through and through, and the flaws are so numerous that the underwater photography is not enough to salvage. The rest of the camera work and editing though is nauseating, it hardly ever is still, and even for a genre movie the movie's colour scheme was much too drab. The monster was very non-threatening and looked ridiculous, not many movies I've seen recently have had a monster that looks like a man masquerading in a monster suit like he's at a fancy dress party but Blood Waters of Dr Z gives off that vibe in a painfully obvious way. The soundtrack is equally monotonous, with a song that is dull and really quite stupid, and it is one of those soundtracks that actually sounds as though it should be somewhere else. The dialogue is laughably cheesy and stilted, made even worse by the vapid and really annoying voice-overs, the attack scenes have no suspense or vitality(they are actually done so badly that I even couldn't deem them as unintentionally hilarious) and the story- the kind that is good concept-wise but badly executed- is senseless, filled with the brim with things left hanging there with no explanation and full of interminably plodding exposition and no sense of dread at all. The characters are annoying and undeveloped, often coming and going with no reason as to doing so, and the acting is just laughable from all involved. Overall, I've seen worse but that's saying a huge amount as Blood Waters of Dr Z is still terrible, one of the lamest monster movies almost certainly brought to celluloid. 1/10 for the underwater photography only. Bethany Cox

gavin6942 A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer.The scientist here is basing his research on one of the most creepy fish I have ever seen. Apparently it is a walking catfish. Yuck! There is much to criticize about the film -- the washed out sepia color that probably cannot be fixed by digital remastering, the completely inexperienced cast and crew. The "awesome" monster costume...But the film has charm, and despite being a bad movie, it is not deserving of being on the bottom 100. Someone put it there because it was on MST3K, and that is all. Sure, it deserves to be made fun of... but I have seen far worse than this.

preppy-3 Lousy monster movie shot in Florida. Dr. Kurt Leopold (Marshall Grauer) transforms himself into a walking catfish (seriously) for some obscure reason (to be totally honest I kept falling asleep so I may have missed his reason). He's also killing people for their blood. (Yes--I KNOW catfish don't like blood but you just gotta go with this) He's also trying to turn a woman into a walking catfish like him so they can mate and produce a new aquatic race! The sheriff of the small town this is happening in tries to catch him and two agents from some society try to help.Deadly dull mess. For starters, the monster is some actor in a stupid looking costume. He's not scary--just silly. Kids wouldn't be scared of him. The sound is sometimes TOO loud and then inaudible at other times. ALL the acting is terrible (none of these "actors" ever made another film) and this just drags. The attack scenes are so obviously faked they're almost embarrassing--gotta love when you see a "dead" corpse moving and when you see the monster waiting for a cue from the director before he attacks someone! Also the boom mike is visible TWICE in one sequence! Then there's a truly pointless sequence where the sheriff locks up a bunch of local singing hippies so they'll be safe. (He probably rightly realizes the monster would attack and kill them all for their lousy songs!) This does have some beautiful underwater photography and a rather surprising end that I didn't see coming. Also hunky Dave Dickerson has a few shirtless scenes. Still it's mostly boring and pointless. Skip this one.

Zeegrade Dr. Leopold really has a lot of free time on his hands. Somehow in between bong hits he devised through twisted logic that he can dominate the world with fish. Exactly how humanity is going to be conquered by animals that can't survive on land isn't really hashed out. He had an idea and the mad doctor is running with it. At least he maintains a detailed itinerary that keep his looniness on schedule. Dr. Leopold, with some help from "the weed of deceit", turns into a catfish monster that more resembles one of the aliens from "Pod People". Next on his agenda is a mate to quell his raging fish libido drawing him to spy on an average looking blond woman that apparently lives in a van down by the river. An inept sheriff and his marine biologist assistant? friend? neighbor? Rex investigate a series of dopey fish related incidences by the local yahoos. When they realize that what they are after is a large fish-man-type-thing they try to capture it with the help of a husband and wife team of special "agents" that seem too interested in this case. Boredom aplenty as monster attacks locals, good guys follow, repeat makes this slower than a turtle with no legs encased in cement. At one point the sheriff stumbles upon some hippie vagrants, stops to listen to their dopey song, then like the Pied Piper leads them to jail for protection from the beast. Or maybe he was arresting them for the terrible song that was shamelessly played in its entirety. I do have to say that I was pretty impressed with the underwater shots for such a low budget film. That in itself saved this from getting a one. The incorporation of the various fish themed nature films with Dr. Leopold's inane dialogue dubbed over it just reeks of amateur hour film-making. I watched the unedited movie, which I recommend all MST3K fan's should do, on TCM and it really is a chore to watch. Trying to sit through this without the aid of Mike and the Bots quips is a task in itself. Not a fun bad movie but an extremely boring bad movie that could only be help by ingesting large amounts of a certain weed.