Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda

A scientist named Dr. Rico Symes engineers a hybrid creature for the U.S. military, splicing a prehistoric flying reptile with a barracuda. The result, a predator that moves through air and water, breaks loose from the research facility, and the only thing capable of hunting it down is an earlier experiment: Sharktopus, a cross between a great white shark and a giant squid, fitted with a transmitter so it can be directed at its target.

The film is a 2014 television movie directed by Kevin O'Neill, his third feature after Dinocroc and Dinoshark. Matt Yamashita wrote the screenplay, and Roger Corman and Julie Corman produced for New Horizons Picture on a budget of about two million dollars. Robert Carradine plays Dr. Symes, with Tony Evangelista, Rib Hillis, Katie Savoy and Conan O'Brien, appearing as himself, in supporting roles.

It follows the 2010 film Sharktopus as the second entry built around the hybrid creature, pitting it against a new monster rather than the coastal setting of the original. Audience scores place it low: on IMDb it holds 3.4 out of 10 from roughly 7,800 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 4 out of 10 from a much smaller pool of 91 ratings. Both figures point to a film watched mainly by viewers already drawn to the deliberately absurd creature-feature premise.