Fish from Hell (Part I) (1945)

★★★★★ · Kill Them All! · Psychaos · 2003-05-28

This is the single GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN! A bunch of fishermen sail around in a boat recklessly fishing. By reckless fishing, I mean either shooting or catching every fish they see. Some people have said this movie is politically incorrect, and I agree. But I think all the politicians are wrong. I think that if fish really deserved to live in the sea, they'd have evolved more so than they have, and have at least some faint vestiges of technology. But they don't. Anyways,at the beginning, they randomly catch all the fish they see until a shark shows up. And I guess they decide they…

★★★★★ · Wow. · averytheclown · 2003-11-14

Wow. This is incredible. This film reminds me of that Southpark episode where stan's uncle takes them hunting and they kill EVERYTHING. Cause in this film, they...kill...EVERY...THING. I was mildly nauseated when porpoises, the gentle geniuses of the sea, were referred to as fish that are good for "lubricating oil" and "leather goods" but not for eating. Didn't they know that dolphins are mammals back then? Sharks are "robbers," and fishermen are "superhuman." There's even a little racism in the mash, "The Chinaboy might make himself some sharkfin soup." Magnificently large Manta Rays are…

★★★★★ · Date of the film. · ZachVon · 2014-05-29

Pretty sure this was made in 1935, not '45. The Worldcat.org database lists it as being from 1935 and I have an 8mm Kodascope with a circle-square date code. Terrific film!

★★★★ · Fish from Hell (Full Film) · Christine Hennig · 2003-08-24

This is one of the all-time great ephemera titles and it doesn't disappoint, though to be more accurate, it should be called Narrators from Hell. Murky footage of deep-sea sport fishing is narrated by a guy whose religious mission is to convince us that fish are EVIL. The passion and logic of his arguments lay somewhere on the spectrum between circuit-riding revival preachers and psychotic cult leaders, and his delivery brings back scary memroies for me of my dad listening to the Nebraska-Oklahoma football game and nearly blowing a gasket. The footage cooperates with the narrator's religious…

★★★ · Painfully politically incorrect. · Spuzz · 2003-05-15

Definitely not a how-to for sport fishing, as a lot of this film seems to rely on 'revenge fishing', this is, I hope, an example of fishing from the past and not representative of today. We start on the boat, where the narrator notices some porpoises following them, "Definitely not food fish!" Thank goodness! "But can be used for a lot of other things, like leather!" Soon, they're fishing for tuna, and a shark joins in for the hunt for tuna. After they catch the tuna, (which attained a major laceration from the shark) the fishermen take out their frustration and get the shark as well (using a…

★★★ · a film pioneer · cashel · 2003-08-25

maker of this film,wilfred lucas had a very long movie career..With his wife,bess meredith, a distinguished screenwriter, he came to australia in 1921 and made several succesful westerns starring Snowy Baker