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Oh, and also sharks exists in swamps now (hi, Swamp Shark)?!? © 2021 Vox Media, LLC. And the shark starts killing them one by one, right after they have...a threesome. Watch Shark Killer starring Arnold Vosloo in this Action/Adventure on DIRECTV. And The Meg doesnât just feature any kind of giant shark. 'Jaws' is still top dog when it comes to shark movies, a subgenre of horror films that's back on the big screen with Jason Statham and 'The Meg.' Okay, so, take the plot of Bait but make it even more insane, and you get Malibu Shark Attack. The shark has decided to stick around, making the few feet that separates Nancy from dry land as treacherous as a minefield. This movie features Jason Statham fighting a 2-million-year-old megalodon! Strangely, ridiculously, yes. A shark that was used for research starts killing people, but a marine biologist thinks it’s a weird conspiracy? Shark movies are notoriously intense, campy, gory and sometimes absurd. Share. Fin and April are on their way to New York City, until a category seven hurricane spawns heavy rain, storm surges, and deadly Sharknadoes. 2015 movies, 2015 movie release dates, and 2015 movies in theaters. There will be no escape from the cable channel’s toothy eating machines. Itâs also undergone some curious mutations. This content is imported from YouTube. NBD. Universal seemed to feel otherwise as recently as 2008, when it barred Los Angelesâ New Beverly from programming the film as part of a Castellari double bill, but the movie has since become available under the title The Last Shark on streaming services and DVD, and has served as fodder for an installment of RiffTrax. Swamp Shark follows an animal smuggling deal that turns in to a bust, but turns into the escape of a man-eating swamp shark. But that's not what the shark there had on their agenda. For those with a cable subscription, I’m sure your eyes have been glued to the Discovery Channel all week long. Mind you, this shark has already eaten one end of the ship and they must stop it from...eating the whole damn thing. Danny Trejo, Karrueche Train, and Rob Van Dam must try and protect the cruise ship they're on that gets attacked by a mutated shark. Why? (Available on Hulu), To call Jaws 2 the best of the Jaws sequels risks damning it with faint praise. We list the best examples, including Open Water, The Meg, 47 Meters Down, The Shallows, and more. It’s sharks, but they swim through sand instead of water. In case the title didn’t make it clear, Avalanche Sharks is about a bunch of sharks atop a snowy mountain that spend their time murdering skiers. Discovering the *hard* way that said shark spews poisonous acid out of its mouth—a totally realistic thing that could definitely happen IRL, don’t question it! These scientists were just living another doing and doing their jobs when their research station in the Arctic gets attacked by sharks that were able to break through the ice. Also, I’m genuinely dead at this picture, although not as dead as this shark. Directed by René Cardona Jr., the filmâs plot eventually coalesces into the story of a ménage à trois centered around Gabriella (Straw Dogsâ Susan George) and a pair of men who decide to share her affection. Photo: Vulture, Lionsgate, Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. Of Course, Vanilla Ice Performed at Trumpâs Cursed Mar-a-Lago NYE Party, A Beat-by-Beat Explanation of What Happens in, Cyndi Lauper Joins The Grand Tradition of Weird New Yearâs Eve Sets, Ashley Park Got a Sign From the Universe to Do the. HEH. This horror show is based partially on the true story of a couple left to fend for themselves in the open ocean after the rest of their scuba-diving expedition forgot them. If any movie proves that itâs Renny Harlinâs 1999 thriller in which a motley crew stranded in a marine-biology lab are forced to match wits with sharks genetically engineered to be smarter than the average man-eater. Directed by Misty Talley. Discovery is calling 2015 the “Summer of the Shark,” with programming events in early July and also at the end of August. The only thing worse than going on a tropical couples retreat during which a shark rolls up and kills everyone? But then it looks like a blow-up doll and it kills people by making them explode and only leaving the stumps of their legs. Updated Jan 09, 2019; Posted Jul 05, 2015 . Aug 12, 2018 Universal Pictures. And it definitely helps that John Williams’s score is so iconic that it conjures doom no matter where you are when you hear it. There’s a couple of parts that are amusing, but it was the old man who dies first. It’s the genre mash-up we never knew we needed. Promise. Not to mention books by Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxleyâ¦. This being a zombie shark movie, of course. This movie is so bad. Votes: 1,003 Though there were films about sharks prior to Jaws, the shark film as a subgenre effectively begins with Steven Spielbergâs masterpiece. Top 10 shark movies January 17, 2015 September 10, 2015 Kevin McMurray The top 10 shark movies from WatchMojo.com might just give you some ideas to make tonight your own shark night. But don’t get it twisted: The premise of Zombie Shark isn’t that sharks are turning into zombies. The following list begins in so-bad-itâs-good territory and ends with some genuinely scary confrontations with the perfect engines, the eating machines, the miracles of evolution that swim and eat and make little sharks (to paraphrase a movie not on this list that still looms large over every entry). (Available on Amazon Prime Video), Though not technically a shark movie, thereâs no way not to include Lucio Fulciâs Italian film Zombie (a.k.a. As a reminder: Our toothy friend is super pissed when a bunch of randoms kill him during a fishing trip, so he decides to become a ghost and come back for REVENGE—this time in New Zealand. Animated movies are listed first, followed by the documentaries. So it's up to a woman to convince and save her community. Register. Log in or link your magazine subscription. A bevy of shows set to resume production on January 4 have been delayed due to surging COVID-19 cases in L.A. County. Wow, what did we do to deserve this? Now best known for directing the 1978 World War II movie The Inglorious Bastards, which lent its title and little else to a later Quentin Tarantino film, Castellari borrowed so liberally from Jaws that Universal Pictures successfully had it pulled from theaters midway through its U.S. release in 1982. C'mon, that’s ALL the movies. Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Honestly, I’m still not sure what this movie is about. After their boat capsizes, a group of friends attempt to rescue themselves by swimming through open water to get to the nearest land. (Available on HBO Max), Director Jaume Collet-Serra brings considerably more flair to an equally simple story in The Shallows, in which Blake Lively plays Nancy, a med student who makes the critical mistake of running afoul of a great white, leaving her wounded and stranded on a rock â albeit one only a few feet from shore. Shark killer Ace Hunter and his brother Jake are hired by a West Coast crime ring to kill a black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond. Fulci wanted nothing to do with it but his producer loved Tintorera⦠Tiger Shark and arranged for a scene in which underwater photographer Ramón Bravo, in full zombie makeup, does battle with a shark that rips his arm off (which doesnât seem to bother the zombie all that much). While the movie reveals how much Steven Spielberg brought to the original Jaws, director Jeannot Szwarc delivers a serviceable retread of the original. The resulting chaos provides a lot of tongue-in-cheek fun that has (so far) inspired three sequels (starting with the brilliantly titled Sharknado 2: The Second One). Not only does Great White feature an exploding shark in its finale, its characters include a bestselling author and shark expert named Peter Benton (a nod to Jaws author Peter Benchley, played by James Franciscus) and a crusty old salt modeled after Robert Shawâs Quint played in a note-by-note imitation of Shawâs performance by Vic Morrow (a great actor who theoretically ought to have known better). Mammoth Mountain's annual Bikini Ski Day party turns bloody when festivities cause an avalanche that awakens a pack of hungry prehistoric snow sharks. Traucki cleverly combines shots of his actors with real shark footage, and while the seams canât help but show once in a while, his castâs mounting terror helps sell the illusion. Serraâs direction and Livelyâs performance keep the film focused tightly on Nancyâs psyche, and the narrowing selection of options that requires her to get creative in order to survive. First of all, this movie was released in 3-D, which, yes please. It all culminates in an ending so confusing and anti-climactic that Universal reshot it before releasing the film in Europe. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. The sharks here are featured in "Island of the Mega Shark," one of this year's new Shark Week programs. Since then, the shark movie has had its ups and downs in popularity. A perfect getaway weekend turns into a nightmare for four friends who find themselves fighting for their lives against an experimental shark. Shark Lake. It worked once, right, so why couldnât it work again? In The Reef, Australian director Andrew Traucki drops a group of tourists on a yacht en route to Indonesia, then watches what happens when their boat capsizes and they debate whether to state and wait for an unlikely rescue in the middle of the ocean or try to swim to an island a dozen miles away. I’m pretty much ded every time I watch this movie—it’s just tragic in every sense of the word. Catherine might just be the MVP of all these movies. So with this weekendâs release of 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, we decided to take stock of the genre. Shark killer Ace Hunter and his brother Jake are hired by a West Coast crime ring to kill a black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond. Ellenâs allies in her fight against the shark include a pilot named Hoagie (Michael Caine) and Mario Van Peebles attempting a Bahaman accent. Sharks now run in shallow water (come through for Jurassic Shark), sand (Sand Sharks, yep) and can become zombies (Zombie Shark). Catherine might just be the MVP of all these movies. The filmmaker directed seven feature films, including. Thatâs bound to happen when youâre not just one of the most successful movies of all time, but also the movie that invented the modern blockbuster. The hero, a cocky, red-headed, all American stud, has lines so corny that I'd give two more stars if her were eaten by the shark. Films, television specials, and television episodes that feature sharks as central characters.. Subcategories. But that doesn’t mean they have to be bad (or, at the very least, boring). Produced by The Asylum, the low-budget production company best known for âmockbustersâ like Transmorphers and Triassic World, it became an unexpected sensation when it aired on Syfy in 2013 (leading to a one-night theatrical release). Finally, something a *little* bit less sensational. Another shark starts attacking the beach and now there are kids and teens involved. You’ll laugh until you remember the movie was such a hit that it spawned a zillion sequels. (Available to rent on Amazon), Can one scene make a movie great? Watch One of These NYE Movies, The #1 Reason You Hate Holiday RomComs This Year, The Most Popular Holiday Movies in Every State. Hollywood loves to terrorize us with these man-eating fish. And here are some of the most excitingly inane and bone-chilling shark flicks that’ll probably make you rethink that spring break cruise. The title says it all, but just to make it super clear: Los Angeles gets hit by a cyclone that causes shark-filled water spouts all over the city. An American businessman in Mexico falls for an English woman. It’s that shark bites are turning humans into zombies. This movie makes me want to meet one. Say what you will about the quality of this cult favorite, but there’s no question it revived the public’s interest in intentionally bad made-for-TV movies. Unfortunately, a great white shark is washed into the store—ugh, hate when that happens—and proceeds to murder everyone. And a lot of that’s probably absolutely traumatized by all those shark attack movies you've watched in your lifetime. There’s a shark (apparently that can swim in knee-deep water) that was awakened after millions of years of slumber, cool. So whatâs the problem? Kay, So Here's Why Peter and Kelley Broke Up, These Workout Quotes = All the Motivation You Need, Qveen Herby Has Evolved From Her Karmin Days, Your Monthly Horoscope for January Is Here, Behold: 15 Films With the Most Romantic Sex Scenes. Every single piece of Blake Lively’s wardrobe becomes useful in her fight against the murderous great white that wants to eat her for dessert (a whale carcass is dinner), and Blake’s costar, Steven Seagull, truly deserved an Oscar. It is literally perfect. I’m the senior entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan.com, which means my DVR is always 98 percent full. This is less shark horror, more soft porno. Horror *legend* Jaws had no business becoming a franchise. From animated movies with shark characters to fascinating and educational shark documentaries, you can find shark fare for kids of varying ages and interests. Itâs the late Hugh Daneâs time to shine as Hank the Security Guard. Dwight Enters the Matrix in Never-Before-Seen. (Available on Amazon Prime Video), One of the strangest Jaws-inspired films belongs to the official franchise. Danger circles a shark hunter when vicious gangsters hire him to track down the black-finned shark that swallowed a priceless diamond. The new version is not much of an improvement, which is to say it does little to make the film less unintentionally hilarious. If you want to … Deep Blood (1990) 25. Jaws has the fine distinction of being not only the greatest shark movie ever made but also one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Shark ki**er Movie Information: Type: Movie Year: 2015 (more movies)MPAA Rating: R Runtime: 88 minutes / 1h 28min Genres: Horror, Thriller, Action Directors: Sheldon Wilson Stars: Natural horror (also known as creature features) is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. After killing Ellenâs youngest son, whoâd taken over his dadâs old job on Amity Island, the vengeful shark seemingly follows her all the way down the Bahamas. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Browse. But I love it, because it’s so bad. This movie is recommended for those of you who saw Snakes on a Plane and thought, Hmm, I wonder what it’s like to watch Samuel L. Jackson fight sharks instead. This 1971 documentary follows the quest to film a great white shark underwater for the first time. This content is imported from {embed-name}. Unfortunately, that water turns out to be home to a shark who’s not that willing to share his territory with these human swimmers, and chaos ensues. Makes perfect sense. Poor, poor Halle Berry. 2015 Directed by Jerry Dugan. Their legs are bit off by a shark. The only thing scarier than a living shark is a dead shark that comes back to life and decides to eat you. That said, Jaws 2 isn’t...that bad. Shark Exorcist starts out with a nun who apparently in league with Satan making a human sacrifice and dumping the body of her victim into a lake. But then he has to share her with a swimming instructor. Thereâs no need for megalodons or super-intelligent sharks when the garden variety can be this terrifying. Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis. This content is imported from YouTube. This film asks the question, “What if sharks lived in saltwater lakes and ate people for sport?” The answer is blood. If you havenât, do yourself a favor and give the movie a look. (Available on HBO Max), When is a shark movie not really a shark movie? That said, thereâs something to be said for a cheesy shark movie, even the ones that are little more than Jaws rip-offs. (Available to rent on Amazon), Dubbed by some as The Blair Shark Project when it hit theaters in 2004, Open Water turns a low budget into an aesthetic virtue. Thereâs no unneeded flash here, just an awful situation captured in horrifying, up-close detail. The doc doesn’t exactly diminish the shark’s reputation as a killer, but it’s an interesting tale nonetheless. Jaws is the king of all shark movies, but the subgenre hasn’t lost its capacity to surprise. 10 Great Shark Movies That Will Keep You Away From the Water. Johannes Robertsâs film is not for claustrophobes, or at least not for claustrophobes unwilling to confront their worst nightmares. I'm never leaving my beach towel on the sand from here on out when I head to the beach. Kinda like Ghost Shark, only in a big city. Mehera Bonner is a news writer who focuses on celebrities and royals—. Sharks are being tracked by a team of beautiful, … Filled with seen-better-days stars like Ian Ziering and Tara Reid, and dashed-off CGI sharks, it answers the question no one had been asking: What if a freak tornado dropped hundreds of sharks on a flooded Los Angeles? The premise of this movie is ridiculous—beautiful girl goes surfing alone in a secluded cove, ends up on a rock fighting for survival before the tide comes in—but the execution is flawless. The Asylum had been playing around with shark movies for a while, via films like 2-Headed Shark Attack (which produced sequential sequels up to 6-Headed Shark Attack) but Sharknado opened the floodgates for low-budget shark movies both within the studio and among Asylumâs rivals, all attempting to up the ante via films like Ice Sharks, Sharkenstein, and Planet of the Sharks. Why worry about a great white when thereâs a shark the size of a semi making the rounds? Some sexy lifeguards get trapped in their station after a tsunami hits and unleashes a pack of...wait for it...“prehistoric goblin sharks.”. Released to puzzled audiences in 1987, Jaws: The Revenge picks up a few dangling strands from the previous films by following Ellen Brody (Lorraine Grady), now the widow of Roy Scheiderâs police chief, as she confronts a great white apparently determined to take revenge on her family. Admit it: most of us are at least a little scared of deep-sea swimming. It pits its cast against a reawakened megalodon, a prehistoric monster previously believed to be extinct that has carried on existing in the deepest regions of the ocean, happily staying away from the surface world and humanity. A fairly bloodless film, The Meg barely earns its PG-13 rating, but Statham keeps it fun and the giant-shark effects go a long way. In order to survive they must fight sharks, zombies, and shark … A brisk, no-frills, but highly effective thriller, it works in part by capturing the terror of being defenseless in the middle of the ocean (much like another film a little higher on the list). In Dark Tide, Halle is a “shark whisperer” who can’t go back into the water after a diver was killed on her watch. 01. Hopefully youâre not reading this on your phone at the beach. (Available to purchase on DVD on Amazon), Fortunately, thereâs no chance any sharks were harmed in making Sharknado. It looked like the worst bar mitzvah ever. (Available to rent on Amazon), Already a subscriber? Itâs an incredibly silly film but features some remarkable underwater footage soured only â and this is no small sticking point â by images of actual shark slaughter. It never quite reaches a point that high again, but few movies do. In this 2017 gem, two sisters (hi, Mandy Moore!!) You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, 10 HBO Documentaries You Should Watch Tonight, How to Watch Movies With Your Long Distance BFFs, 30 Movies For Your Next Family Movie Night, The 20 Greatest Lifetime Christmas Movies Ever, Staying in? And now she’s taking a millionaire and his son on a shark dive. (Available on Amazon Prime Video), A Chinese-American co-production directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), The Meg may be the best example of a movie carefully engineered to play for a global audience. They squabble and bed each other in beautiful seaside surroundings. 28. Cosmopolitan participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Complicating matters: Theyâre in shark-infested waters, and one characterâs early observation that âyouâre more likely to die of a bee sting than get killed by a sharkâ doesnât provide much comfort. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. But also, the plot is so extra: A bunch of hot people are chilling in a grocery store when a tsunami hits and floods the building. It also doesn't help that Hollywood loves to scare us! The subgenre has, at its best, found ways to step away from its inspiration, and this century has produced some truly compelling, thrilling spins on the form. Synopsis ... Movies with names like Shark Lake shouldn't take themselves as seriously as Shark Lake. It … Oscar Futures: Could the Globes Controversy Benefit. Watch Harry Styles and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Soft Shoe Into the New Year, The duo dance the night away in the music video for Stylesâs âTreat People With Kindness.â. Yes. In the titular ghost shark’s defense, though, it is only dead because a human decided to torture and kill it. The scene has had its own second life as a much-watched YouTube clip, even turning up in a Windows 7 commercial in 2010. No matter that fake-shark technology has advanced about a million percent over the past 40 years—Jaws is still terrifying enough that you wouldn’t want to watch it during a beach vacation. God bless. There’s always going to be some bikini-clad A-lister who lives somewhere near water and then bam! But, um, yeah. None try particularly hard to be good in any traditional sense, but they do attempt to deliver on the promise of their outrageous titles. Big hugs to all the women who have been pregnant during this challenging time.â. There’s a lot of going on. Hell, my first career goal in life was to become a marine biologist before I found my passion to be more in communications and writing than the… MegaShark was followed by three sequels: Vs Crocosaurus in 2010; Vs Mecha Shark in 2014 and Vs Kolossus, in 2015. When itâs Tintorera⦠Tiger Shark, a borderline soft-porn film from Mexico that only occasionally remembers itâs supposed to be ripping off Jaws between scenes of moonlit skinny-dipping and languorous lovemaking. Jaws Strikes Back. But all that changes when a probe goes too far, sending the megalodon to the surface in search of fresh prey. Once in a while, at least. Malibu Shark Attack. All rights reserved. (Available on HBO Max), Not all low-budget shark movies have to use cheap CGI effects to make an impression. None of the characters was appealing. The international cast includes, among others, a British action star (Jason Statham), a Chinese multi-hyphenate (Li Bingbing), and an American sitcom veteran (Rainn Wilson), but more importantly, a giant shark translates easily into any language. Devilfish (1984) 27. The Best TV and Movie Wedding Dresses of All Time, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, CBS Delay TV Production in Los Angeles. The shark movie genre is loaded with a few really good movies and plenty of so-bad-they’re-good films. And I'm assuming any two-legged being in their territory counts as so. Cardona makes sure to leave in abundant amounts of male and female nudity and, oh yeah, they also fight sharks. The documentary filmmaker takes us through the waters of some of the most beautiful places on Earth, while busting myths about sharks and helping us realize how important for the ecosystem they really are. In this 1999 treasure, scientists accidentally engineer shark brains so that sharks are smarter and more dangerous, thus making it problematic when they start escaping from the research pens and attacking people. are on vacation in Mexico when they decide to go shark diving with some sketchy dudes they meet in a bar. Tubi Kids NEW. 3-Headed Shark Attack is a 2015 American direct-to-video science fiction action horror film developed by The Asylum and starring Danny Trejo, Karrueche Tran and Rob Van Dam. A clever, playful penultimate episode goes extremely meta without collapsing in on itself. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. No one is getting the paternal affection they crave in this town. But theyâll be safe, wonât they? Review by Matt ★ There’s not enough Dolph to have action. Shot on video, it follows a couple (Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis) who accidentally get left behind while partaking on a scuba outing, leaving them floating in the middle of the ocean and surrounded by sharks (as if trying to stay alive in the middle of the ocean wasnât challenging enough).
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