The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
The killer shark film has been with us since the massive hit of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). This was followed by three sequels and over the next two decades by a host of B-budget copies.
Since the mid-2000s, the B-budget shark film has made a movie towards the Gonzo Killer Shark film, which is predicated on ridiculous title mashups or combining sharks with the most absurd of things. This culminated with the bad movie hit of Sharknado (2013), which led to a string of sequels and a host of imitators.
The 2010s has also seen a growing move away from gonzo shark films to what might be termed a genre of Survival in Shark-Infested Waters films, played with a good deal more seriousness and drama.
From the director of the Wyrmwood films, an Australian-made film about a group of soldiers during World War II who become stranded in a sea of sharks following a shipwreck
A strong contender for the most ridiculous killer shark ever made – something that should have occurred to the producers about the point of the film’s premise of a shark hunting people in a supermarket
In the same vein as Sharknado, another absurdly entertaining gonzo shark attack film concerning sharks that swim through the snow to attack skiers at a mountainside resort
A really, really bad variant on the killer shark film. Painfully bad in every single regard. Dustin Ferguson is quickly establishing himself as the modern Edward D. Wood, Jr