If you see only one aquatic zombie/killer mermaid/hiphop/action-adventure/exploitation flick from Thailand this year, then--well, you know the rest. But what you might not know, or rather expect, is that the direction, by star JoeyBoy, is surprisingly strong, and that despite being billed as chock full of bikini babes, that description really only applies to the first 20 minutes or so of Dead Bite. After that it's basically one big, desert island-set fight-and-pursuit sequence, and it works quite well on those terms; indeed, there's an unstructured, one-damn-thing-after-another feel to the proceedings that I suggest you just go with. Well-executed gore effects alternate with broad comedy, which itself alternates between the genuinely amusing and the groaningly goofy. In short, this is a film that many New Yorkers will not have even heard of, but which now provides them with a chance for a big screen experience that they'll always remember (simply because it's impossible to confuse Dead Bite with anything else)... which kind of makes this the quintessential NYAFF movie, doesn't it? (Also perhaps a kind of quintessential TwitchFilm title, albeit on the silly end of things.)