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Snakehead Terror
DVD cover
Genrescience fiction
horror
Written byA.G. Lawrence
Directed byPaul Ziller
StarringBruce Boxleitner
Carol Alt
William B. Davis
Chelan Simmons
Theme music composerKen Williams
Country of originCanada
USA
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersElizabeth Sanchez
Paul Ziller
Running time92 minutes
Production companiesCineTel Films
Sci Fi Pictures
Original release
NetworkSyfy
ReleaseMarch 13, 2004

Snakehead Terror is a 2004 science fiction-horror television film. It is one of two Syfy Channel films based on the snakehead fish incident in a Crofton, Maryland pond. The other film is Frankenfish. Swarm of the Snakehead is an independently produced creature comedy based on the same Crofton incident, and the only one of the three actually filmed in Maryland. Based on real fish called snakeheads.

Plot

A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when the voracious snakehead fish mutate, surviving previous chemical attacks. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human. In a race against time, the local Sheriff and biologist Lori Dale, try to save the Sheriff's teenage daughter and her friends, along with the town itself, from being eaten alive.

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