Part of this was shot in Jacksonville, Florida. You talk about a putrid film. The plot drags on and on with no exposition except for a pathetic voice-over from the "villiain" who tells us all that they think he's mad, and "he'll show them someday".
Anyway, after about 20 minutes of showing us this bad guy playing around with all sorts of pseudo-Frankenstein lab stuff, he finally turns into a walking fish-man. Now look, the costume REALLY isn't that bad. It is kind of freaky looking, but you cannot make a film based on one kinda-cool outfit. Anyway, this bad guy swims around squirting lakes and other fish with a squirt bottle...for what purpose, we have NO idea, then he swims and attacks some old guy on a boat. Later we learn it is one of these guys who called him "mad". More swimming, some pathetic gawking at a woman painting and camping by the lake in a bikini, then back to the murder. Later monster boy tries to take the girl and turn HER into a "Mrs. Monster" but he fails. Oh, we see another 20 minutes or so of the monster piddling with the Frankenstein equipment...like we're so stupid we don't realize what he's trying to do. MST3K did this flick, and it was hard to enjoy even when THEY did it...this is bad on the MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE kind of level. Watch if you REALLY want to go to sleep, but have to have the TV on anyway.
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