I don't know if it was the obvious toy boat playing the part of the Scary Satanic Killer Boat, or the really out of place "Bassline" EDM song that plays when they're heading out to hunt the Satanic Boat (good song though), or the multiple shots of an underwater camera moving at high speed through the water (I just think it looks neat), or the weird dreamy/nightmare feel of the movie, or maybe it's just Jeff Kirkendall getting to be onscreen a lot and deliver some wonderful deadpan lines that made me laugh, but I really had fun with this movie.

Could've really done without showing the killing of the Cult scene again in full for a second time, though. That took me out of the movie a bit.

I have recently read Brian Berry's novelization which led to this rewatch. The book doesn't go deeper on too many things if anything at all. It is a quick read with only 109 pages. Of course, I was going to read the book for a Polonia movie, I mean that is just badass.

Now that I have watched this movie twice and read the book, I can confidently say that I enjoy this a lot more than I probably should. The book opened a whole world that wasn't a dank basement seen in the movie.

In case you wanted to read the book, click this link: a.co/d/5KqMqIK

Why in cults do they always have some ornate goblet full of blood that they pass around to drink from? That's so boring. I propose a blood bong so you can party with your cloaked brethren.

There is a mysterious black boat leaving a trail of blood in its wake and it is up to Jeff Kirkendall to stop it! Kirkendall was clearly the MVP of this movie, he waxes poetic to himself, asking questions for no one to answer, and looks great in uniform. There are many odd choices in this movie but they all seem to work. It was like Mark Polonia got a new underwater camera for Christmas and took it out on a test drive with this movie. The high-speed underwater shots looked great, by the way. A scene might have been repeated but I was still in ride-or-die mode so they didn't bother me. Then there is the soundtrack. Most of the soundtrack is exactly what I have come to expect over the years from a Polonia flick. But then... out of now where comes this loud song that doesn't really flow with the vibes but it works nonetheless.

No. 

When your best looking shots are stock footage…that’s not good.

I wonder if the novelization gets into the history of Tim Hatch and his brother Messiah Ward, who is a top 5 bony skeleton hands/boatman of all time. We loved this movie on Podlonia , the worlds only podcast dedicated to Polonia Brothers Entertainment!

This is like Exorcist 3 as done by community theater but the evil is a poorly disguised model boat. Spectacular!
Also…if you had told me this had been made in any year from 1991-2014 I would have believed you. If you said 2023, I’d have laughed in your face!

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I'm in this movie as a newscaster at ~58 minutes in. I filmed it in my bedroom.

C"mon. They coulda had just one person in this do a motorboat to someone else. Didn't even have to be a lady.