Crocodile Fury – review

Director: Godfrey Ho

Release date: 1988

Contains spoilers

It’s a Godfrey Ho and so you know what to expect – he has three films in my worst 100 (two in the worst 10) under pseudonym, them being Devil’s Dynamite, Robo Vampire & Counter Destroyer. Ho had a little trick of buying films and stitching them together and then having them dubbed.

In this case he took the Thai film Kraithong 2, in which a man can turn himself into a man-eating crocodile, and (I suspect) shot some footage to stitch into it. It’s in this footage that we get the vampires. However, for the majority of the film we get crocodiles, who seem to be reincarnations of people, attacking a village on a river bank.

bitten by a croc

This involves footage after footage of people being got by the crocs and it is amusing (but not for the running length of the film). It might be sick gallows humour, but the scene of playing kids in a tree and one diving head first into the open mouth of a patiently waiting croc did make me giggle. Some are ripped apart in ok (given the fuzzy transfer) sfx, others are dragged along in the croc’s moth, screaming help… We get some story going on concerning Jack. He was in love with Marie, who is now a crocodile, and spends some time talking her out of killing (the crocs can appear as humans).

Monica and her kyonsi

She and the others are controlled by Mr Cooper, the Master of the Sea, and he aims to take over the world. Marie, however, teams up with a male crocodile who is very rapey and gets him to kidnap a woman who is now Jack’s wife, using the promise of sexual favour to persuade him to help and then teaming up with him to take over the Master’s kingdom. The Master, in the meantime is in league with a sorceress named Monica (Trudy Calder), who controls vampires.

prayer scrolls

She has a couple of kyonsi (which she saved her co-criminal Rudolf (Ernst Mausser, Robo Vampire) from) and she and Rudolf are students of a dead master who was in the vampire business. They are hunted by agent Bruce Thompson (Kent Wills, also Robo Vampire) and he gets attacked by Rudolf occasionally and has vampires sent after him – though the ones he fights, in the main, look more zombie than vampire. There isn’t really a story beyond this with these guys.

Jack and Marie (as a croc)

Oh, it is bad… the croc footage might have saved a short but gets tedious for a feature. The bad dubbing is really bad, the dialogue atrocious and the rapeyness very rapey – though one such character does get eaten by a crocodile and the rapey crocodile gets defeated by another crocodile man. It isn’t good, and it never was going to be. There are a couple of versions floating around. The one with English dub is a worse transfer than the French dub (which is still poor). 1 out of 10.

The imdb page is here.