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Joseph Randall
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posted July 16, 2015 03:25 PM

Did they actually sell any prints? I just watched this on Netflix -- what a stinker!
[Embarrassed]

At the beginning, it actually says "Marketing Films."

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted July 16, 2015 07:29 PM

Barracuda is the only film (during the 8mm era) that the !arketing Films actually made (produce) not only printing like other companies.

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0078952/?ref_=tt_dt_co

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 16, 2015 09:13 PM

I thought it would be at least a cheasy rip-off of JAWS, but it wasn't even that.

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Brian Hendel
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posted July 17, 2015 05:00 PM

The came out as a 3 X 400' edited feature from Marketing. It's strange they didn't release this as a full feature since it was their own film so they had the rights. Maybe they realized it was a better film with a 45 minute running time! I have to admit I kinda like it in a 70's cheese sort of way.

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 18, 2015 09:53 PM

On my GODFATHER Marketing box lid, it says BARRACUDA is available in 200', 400', and full-length.

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Adrian Winchester
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posted July 19, 2015 05:37 PM

It would be interesting to know if Marketing actually had any creative input or whether it was (e.g.) just providing part of the finance. I tried comparing the producers and crew of 'Barracuda' with the equivalent credits from their other film shown on IMDB - 'Walking the Edge' (1985) - and all the names were different.

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 19, 2015 08:16 PM

Financing? [Big Grin]

It is one of the cheapest-looking productions I have ever seen.

They must have filmed in the cold weather because there is no one on the beach except the principal actors.

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David Skillern
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posted July 20, 2015 02:27 AM

Hi Joseph,

Yes - I agree the movie has been made on a shoestring - but there is something about it that makes it watchable - and I do like the B feature quality of the film and the environmental /pollution and water experimentation has a kind of quirky Scfi feel to it.

David

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 20, 2015 04:01 PM

Yes, but the movie really never takes off. The best part is the ending -- I'm talking the final 5 seconds.

I'm still surprised that someone actually took the time (and money) to transfer this to HD for Netflix.

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted July 20, 2015 06:32 PM

Joseph, I believe with a saying:One man's trash is another man's treasure

This movie can be a cult in the next tens years.....similar to Ed Wood's "Plan 9 of outer space" that was awarded as the worst movie ever.

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James N. Savage 3
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posted July 20, 2015 07:15 PM

Yes Winbert, I agree [Smile]

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Barracuda is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I think it only played at the drive-in theater as a "second feature" back in the 70's.

I've never actually seen the full feature myself, but the Marketing digest is probably the longest version I would be able to do on repeat-viewings.

James.

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 20, 2015 08:43 PM

I was expecting it to be bad, but fun-bad. I found it boring-bad.

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Tom Photiou
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posted July 21, 2015 07:41 AM

Funny this, i was looking out for a print of this one, i thinks now i shall continue to find die hard again instead [Wink]

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David Skillern
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posted July 21, 2015 08:27 AM

Hi Tom,

You should be able to pick up the 3x400ft of this film without too much bother - I got mine from Ian at Perrys several years ago - colour and sound still very good. It's not a bad film - but definitely in the B features category. Some reasonable attack sequences at the beginning and then it veers off into government cover up of water pollution and experimentation . It's 45 minutes of hokum, but I like it.

David

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Osi Osgood
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posted July 21, 2015 02:36 PM

Marketing Films shouldn't have wasted they're time. I had a 2X400ft version of this, and it was way too long at that length. I quickly sold in along.

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 21, 2015 03:02 PM

Wow, what a polarizing film!
[Big Grin]

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David Skillern
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posted July 22, 2015 05:00 AM

Hi Joseph ,

I always wanted to see Barracuda after seeing it on a double bill poster at my local cinema back in the late 1970's early 1980's - it was showing with the original version of the inglorious bastards - happy days !!!

David

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Joseph Randall
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posted July 22, 2015 12:37 PM

Trust me -- you didn't miss much.
[Big Grin]

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David Skillern
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posted July 22, 2015 01:55 PM

Joseph,
Maybe not as I haven't seen the whole film - but as I said earlier in this thread - I do have the marketing 3x400ft release - which I enjoy.

David

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Osi Osgood
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posted July 22, 2015 02:51 PM

Well, there were some assorted ladies in assorted states of undress ... but beyond that, nothing to really recommend it.

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David Skillern
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posted July 23, 2015 03:05 AM

Hi Osi,

Each to their own choices I suppose - but I usually screen my print of Barracuda with Squirm, Mako - Jaws of Death , Prophecy and Jaws 2 - a selection of creature features. But as I have already said - what some people hate - others enjoy.
David

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Osi Osgood
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posted July 23, 2015 12:58 PM

Now, THERE'S one I wouldn't mind finding, JAWS 2, the scope digest. I used to have a slightly faded 400ft letterboxed non scope print, but I admired the editing of that film into a digest, but I have heard that the scope digest of this has tended to be quite faded as well.

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