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Screened on SyFy as Sea Beast (Trogolodyte on IMDb), probably because it's a hybrid of so many other creatures, both sea beasts and land beasts. Look for elements of Jaws, Alien, Jurassic Park, Lake Placid, and Predator, among others.

It's fun, and just what you expect from a SyFy original offering (at least it's free). Low budget, loosely jointed, questionable acting, cheap CGI effects, and unresolved items at the end. But the creatures are pretty well designed, and the lead actor, the fisherman guy, does pretty well. There's actually urgency in his voice. Not so his daughter and her paper thin character friends. Drama 1 drop outs. The one-on-one fights between the teens and baby creatures are absolutely hilarious--in particular the one where the sea beast pulls himself into a rock, lol. That single moment is worth the price of admission. The siege on the cabin has some great visuals, too.

Most important for a movie is to entertain, and this one does. It holds your attention, and some scary scenes manage to sprinkle in amongst all the craziness. Yes, it resorts to some horror clichés like the blood spurting out of a neck bit when somebody gets decapped. Also, you never quite know what spawned these things. But it's good enough for at least for a few laughs.

The fishing vessel Solita crosses a storm during the night and the Skipper Will McKenna (Corin Nemec) witnesses a weird creature attacking the crewman Joey. They return to the dock and Will has difficulties to pay the amount he owes to the former owner of the boat, Roy (Roman Podhara). The fish population is reducing in the area and the biologist Arden (Camille Sullivan) is investigating the possible causes. Meanwhile, Will's daughter Carly (Miriam McDonald) steals the keys of her father's cottage in a nearby island and plans to travel with her boyfriend Danny (Daniel James Wisler) and their friends Erin (Christie Laing) and Drew (Brandon Jay McLaren) to spend the weekend in the island. However, Drew is murdered by a deep sea predator on the dock and his pieces are found by Will and Arden. Carly, Danny and Erin do not have any news from their friend and travel to the island without Drew. Sooner Erin is murdered by the creature and Danny is bitten by a newborn reptile. Danny and Erin seek shelter in the cabin but they are trapped there by the creatures. In the continent, Will and Arden learn that the deep sea predator is a very dangerous species, after a series of lethal attacks, and they head to the island to rescue Carly.

"Troglodyte" is an unoriginal but pretty decent B-movie for television. The plot blends "Lake Placid" and Predator" and the result is a cheesy and forgettable action film with the usual clichés. The town seems to be empty and the conclusion has the usual nonsense, with Will, Carly and Arden happy and forgetting that Danny, Jay and many of their friends are dead. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Feras do Mar" ("Sea Beasts")

Being a fisherman is a difficult job, particularly during a rough storm. But things can only get worse when a sea beast decides to make your crew its meal. In this small fishing town, the sea beast and his family follow the seamen ashore... to destroy every living thing in their path. How do you stop a creature that you cannot see?

This happens to be another film in the "Maneater" series of films, which started off with vicious animals (blood monkeys, crocs, and more) and has ventured into some strange territory. They recently came out with "Yeti", for example (you can read the review for this on Killer Reviews). And now, the sea beast, formerly titled "Troglodyte" (which is grossly misleading). It's "Jaws" meets science fiction meets "Raptor Island", which is either awesome or horrible depending on how you feel about those three things.

Personally, I love "Jaws" and science fiction has its good points, but "Raptor Island" is a CG piece of offal. Now, to be fair, "Sea Beast" isn't as poorly animated as "Raptor Island", but they fit in the same category. But we've come to expect that from the Maneater series. Cheesy plot, minimal gore (though this one does alright), little or no nudity or cursing. Your basic TV-ready film. And don't get me wrong, if you want an hour and a half of beer-swilling entertainment, this film will fir your needs. But if you try to dissect it, you'll claw your eyes out. It simply doesn't make much sense.

If you want to watch this film, my best recommendation is that you try to catch it on TV or borrow it from a friend or rent it. There is no reason to purchase this film. It doesn't have a lot of replay value, and there are literally no special features (unless you count scene selection). No subtitles, no languages, no audio commentary, nothing. It's about as bare bones as DVDs come, which is rare these days.

Bottom line: cheap, cheesy entertainment. If that's what you're into (and I guess some people are because they keep making these movies), go for it. If you want more substance or a good scare, this is not the film for you. Seriously, watch "Jaws" for the tenth time before you see this if you want a quality man versus fish story.

I don't mind low-budget movies, some of them are bottom-of-the-barrel quality but some are entertaining. Troglodyte is sort of watchable and entertaining, but it does have a lot wrong with it. I give it credit for a great idea, quite nice locations, a decent soundtrack and a good performance from Corin Nemic. However, Miriam McDonald is absolutely awful, consisting of forced line delivery and more annoying than anything else. She's not the only asset that doesn't work. The stereotypical characters also don't work, and neither do the choppy editing, abysmally rendered CGI effects, a meandering, cheesy and predictable script and a story that gets stupider and stupider from one scene to the next. Overall, not bad but far from good. 4/10 Bethany Cox

For those who are looking for Jamie Foxx doing huge stunts with mega explosion, This is not the movie for you... But for those who enjoy some low budget horror movies, this mix of predator/ jaws & aliens low budget flick is a fun one. When you see the cover of this DVD, you know exactly what you're in for. I rented this last night because I thought it was time to check out a monster movie :D I was surprise, I admit there are many bad straight to DVD horror & Sci - fi movies out there I was impress with this movie Personally, I think the creatures look a lot better than I am Legend, and the movie is way better than the 1998 Godzilla. So if you enjoys flicks like Tremors, The Mist or even Frankenfish, give Sea Beast a try

This isn't a bad movie. It has some good acting and some good effects. The setting and the music are good. The problem is the story has been done a million times and this movie does not have any new ideas to offer. Everything about the story, from the monsters, to the babies, to the nest, to the explosion at the end has been done exactly like this.

Its ok to watch, but ultimately unsatisfying.

Believe it or not, "Sea Beast" originally appeared as "Troglodyte" on Syfy in 2008. It goes without saying that it was a good call to change the name seeing as how there are no troglodytes in sight.

As the cover of the DVD would suggest, "Sea Beast" is another take on the well-worn "Jaws" theme. This one takes place in the Vancouver, BC, area (big surprise). The creature has the ability to appear nigh invisible and render its prey immobile. This may sound cartoonish, but the way it's explained by the requisite scientist makes it semi-believable.

Other than "Jaws," the plot borrows from other creature flicks like "Predator," "Gremlins" and "Godzilla ('98)." It's reminiscent of the latter film in that there's a mommy monster and a bunch of little tykes, just as ferocious.

What makes "Sea Beast" work is that the material is taken seriously and it has a quality cast, not to mention solid locations. The cast is highlighted by a strong male protagonist, Corin Nemec as Will Mckenna, Will's ditzy daughter, Carla, who can be ultra-violent when necessary (Miriam McDonald) and Will's female sidekick scientist, Arden (Camille Sullivan). Miriam possesses such a cuteness she's somehow just enjoyable to look at. Also, the creature effects (CGI) are well done. Not to mention it's very gory, if you're into that.

There's not much else to say. If you like well-done creatures-on-the-loose TV flicks, "Sea Beast" provides well enough to satisfy. It's far from great but it delivers just enough to grant it a marginal thumbs up.

GRADE: B-

We really enjoy finding campy, corny, fun monster movies with dramatic over-acting. This isn't one of them. The actors seem to have all taken sedatives before going on camera, and the only ones excitable are the beasts, & by the first half hour, you're hoping they eat everyone in town. One can only hope!

"Sea Beast" (aka. Troglodyte) was actually a rather nice surprise of a movie. I picked up the DVD from Amazon based on the cover of the movie, because it looked interesting.

The story in "Sea Beast" takes place at a coastal community. A local, struggling, fisherman witnesses something taking one of his crew at sea during a storm. Then people start dying at land, and it appears that some aquatic creature have followed the fishing vessel back to land. Can the people stop the deep sea predator before it is too late and can they find the nest? Now, that story was actually quite alright, despite it being very cliché and predictable. But still, it was enjoyable.

Actually the creature design and effects were actually quite good. Think up a weird mix of the Deep Ones (to those familiar with Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology) and predator, then you have a basic idea of the creatures found in "Sea Beast". I like the way the creatures looked and the CGI was believable enough - except for the super fake boating scene that you are introduced to within the first minute of the movie. Now that was just hilarious.

The acting in "Sea Beast" was adequate, of course nothing award-winning, but not bad like so many other movies. Corin Nemec (playing Will McKenna) has the lead role, and you can say what you will about him, but he actually did a good job in this movie.

"Sea Beast" was great entertainment and I do enjoy monster movies, sadly most of such movies end up being crap. "Sea Beast", however, was quite alright. Despite being predictable to the core, "Sea Beast" turned out to be a nice surprise.

Sigh, after being a horror fan for more than twenty years, I still make the same old rookie mistake of getting lured into watching dumb, nonsensical crap just because it has an enticing DVD-cover… With just a minimum of research in advance, I would have noticed that this is another run of the mill made-for-TV creature feature released by the infamous Sci-Fi Channel. These flicks are aimed at a very undemanding audience and derivative of approximately a dozen of other – far more original – movies. "Sea Beast", or "Troglodyte" as it's officially called apparently, is a clumsy hodgepodge of genre clichés and all too obviously borrowed ideas that just look pathetic in this movie's context. The plot takes place in a small seaside community and begins with a fatigue, old-timer fisherman returning from a hectic trip where he lost one of his crew members during a storm. Will McKenna witnessed how a large monstrous sea creature grabbed his helper, but naturally nobody onshore believes him and he becomes the laughing stock of the town. He finds a drunkard in town who also saw the creature, but naturally he doesn't want to help. Oh and – also naturally – Will has a rebellious teenage daughter who disregards daddy's warnings and heads off to a little island to party with a few friends. The titular "sea" beast turns out to be a ravenous creature that is also able to live on land and even in trees. Nobody knows where it comes from and the script doesn't bother to explain, but presumably it's a distant relative of the aliens in "Predator", as it can become transparent and attacks its victims from high up in trees. Several sequences are bluntly and shamelessly copied from "Predator", but the film also borrows success-elements from other horror favorites, like "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park". The monsters look like ludicrous computer-engineered experiments designed by an over-enthusiast bunch of geeks that couldn't unanimously agree on a decent design. Dumb and forgettable TV-horror.

The design of the monsters is cool, besides the dodgy CGI, and Corin Nemec is doing his best, but other then that its a fairly generic by the numbers SyFy horror movie. Good in the backgound movie.

Good movie so far to watch especially the sea beast creature looking dangerous and also thanks to camera works.

Which doesn't make it any better. Let's start with the original title; Troglodyte. Did the producers/screenplay writer, heck, did ANYONE realize that Troglodyte's live UNDER GROUND not UNDER the SEA? Probably not. (For a terrible version of a troglodyte, see the Joan Crawford z film, Trog. Which is as bad as this.) So we have a lame fishing village under siege by mostly invisible (poorly animated invisible creatures) who are kind of a rip on Lovecraft creations. When they do appear, they're happily not indestructible, have really long tongues and are quite hungry. While the creature effects are poor CGi, some of the practical effects, like a woman getting beheaded by one, are pretty good. Still the acting is subpar and the story, what there is of it, is pretty lame. Another loser.

... in the late '70s. Not sure I can even finish it. But hey, it's something to let play in the background. The monsters are almost cartoonish but passable. Despite how bad it is, I feel compelled to keep watching, so, there's that. Not sure if I'll regret it or not. All that being said, it's tough to come up with a story that has good acting and dialogue and then keep the it moving. The characters are almost cliche (like - REALLY close) and yet, there are some I'm rooting for. Wish me luck. Gonna finish. The fact that I'm warning you before I've watched the whole thing oughta tell you something.

There is a thing out there called ... Man-Eater series. And this is one of their "beasts". And while other movies try to be original with their titles (and only them), this does have at least some more or less decent acting behind it all. It's nothing great and even while the dialogue is spoken you can feel how the actors struggle to keep a straight face, with all the plot holes and turns they take while talking.

But you won't watch it, for the acting now, will you? Exactly. So if you're here for the beast(s), you will have to do with mostly CG-generated ones. It's not a complete waste of time, but then again, you might wanna watch something more interesting (and comprehensible)

Depending on your point of view, this movie either delivers what you would expect from a low budget creature feature or you should avoid at all costs. There are some similarities here with another "Sci-fi Channel" movie "Loch Ness Terror". The difference being that "Sea Beast" runs off in several different directions at a frantic pace, while "Loch Ness Terror" is far more deliberate. The CGI monsters are about equal, and interestingly both films have young creatures getting in on the carnage. One major annoyance about "Sea Beast" is the daughter, played by Miriam McDonald. Her acting is so amateurish that you will be rooting for the creature to end her misery and your's. The creatures are on screen in daylight for a good amount of time, which maintains interest throughout, although there is never any attempt to explain where they came from in the first place. - MERK

The storyline comes out weak, as each character doesn't come out strong enough to create any climax. In addition, a sci-fi movie lacks of any special effects to look outstanding other than a creature is trying to act as something like "the predator", but not scary.

Here is what the difference between a Hollywood film and a regular film. A Hollywood film can have a simple story, with a normal ugly creature, and create it into a big movie; as if a regular film with simple story, with a more complex ugly creature, and create it into a small house production film.

Should they need more time for editing before bring out to the screen Sad.

After returning from a fishing trip, a fisherman finds the series of strange deaths plaguing the community is brought about by their bringing back a ravenous prehistoric sea creature and must find a way of stopping the deadly creature.

On the whole this wasn't all that bad of a creature feature. Among the better elements here is the rather enjoyable action which is pretty frequent in here which has plenty to like about it in here. The first attack on the couple leads into the frantic chase in the forest which features the impressive gun-fighting along the way, a series of fine attacks on the group partying on the island leading along some great stalking through the jungles and a great marina confrontation with the creature that makes for a really great series of encounters that makes this one quite enjoyable having some great parts in here. These set the stage for the film's two biggest action scenes throughout here in the militia attack out in the woods where the creature's survival instincts are put to great use stalking around the forest leading to some great attacks, the action comes off rather nicely of the group firing off at the creature while giving this one some solid gore as well, and makes the finale even better by comparison with the creature's attack on their cabin which feature some impressive defense tactics against the creatures, a lot of action trying to hold them off and segues right into the fun times in the ship at the end which is such a good time all throughout here. Along with the spectacular blood and gore here, the film's other positive is the creature itself as there's far more than expected here in their behavior and tactics that makes them far more formidable than expected throughout here, all of which help this one against the few flaws here. The biggest issue to overcome here is the completely unknown creatures here, for as much good as it does in their behavior and attack tactics it loses in terms of their biology and history, and there's not even an official species name given to them which leaves them altogether quite problematic. The other big problem here is the lame CGI present which makes for a rather obvious time here whether being utilized for the creatures or the rather lame insert shots here that tend to stick out quite obviously. There's very little times where it all looks quite cheesy and fake here, which does lower this one. Along with a few lame kills early on, these are the film's flaws.

Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.