#sharksploitation

[sesiondemadrugada]

Sharksploitation (Stephen Scarlata, 2023).

#sharksploitation #stephen scarlata #joe alves

[fantastica-daily]

Sharksploitation Documentary Film Review

It’s Shark Summer! (Shark Week is so ’90s) This year we have the usual swarm of scary shark movies including The MEG 2, The Black Demon, Cocaine Shark, and even Tommy “The Room” Wiseau is taking a dip with Big Shark, set in the Big Easy.

Perhaps the best of these films is the fintastic Shudder-exclusive documentary, Sharksploitation. Director Stephen Scarlata (Jodorowsky’s Dune) tackles an array of shark flicks but of course, the whole genre is anchored by Jaws. Jaws, soon to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, remains the big kahuna—but it’s far from the first frightful fish tale. B-Movie King Roger Corman was making shlocky sea-fearing flicks, as were others.

However, Jaws was the first to make a splash as a big-budget blockbuster; many things set it apart from the rest and Sharksploitation calls in a wide array of experts to talk about that movie specifically, and the genre it spawned. There’s a vast pool of pundits including film historians, screenwriters, directors, folklorists, scientists, and marine biologists, each bringing their own intellect and perspective to the table. (These include:  Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb; filmmaker Roger Corman; Sharknado impresario Anthony C. Ferrante; and Zombie Shark director Misty Talley.)

There is an impressive insight into the genre, which covers early films that depicted sharks as benevolent and fabled gods, spinoff genres such as alligator, piranha, and killer whales, as well as sharks in animated and superhero features. Films covered include The Reef, Open Water, The Shallows, The MEG, and there’s even a brief clip of Lucio Fulci’s famous “zombie vs. shark” fight scene from Zombie. Sharksploitation also takes a brief dive into the James Bond films, wherein more than a few villains sicced their sharks on 007.

There’s also a necessary but sad look at how vilified sharks have become following the success of Jaws—thousands of these beautiful creatures have been hunted down and killed for no reason other than unfounded fear, and our ecosystem has been upset. As a result, the author of the novel Jaws, Peter Benchley, devoted much of his life to conservation and education—his widow, Wendy Benchley, makes a welcome appearance in this documentary with her interesting discernments on fact and fiction. There are also a few scenes of sharks being killed during the filming of certain movies—briefly, and not gorily, but be warned.

Sharksploitation is an educational, entertaining, and enlightening documentary that’s perfect for all kinds of movie fans—not just horror aficionados.

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S.L. Wilson

#sharksploitation #horror movies #jaws 1975 #Stephen Scarlata

[splatteronmywalls]

#sharksploitation #documentary #2023

[terribletoonietuesday]

Ouijashark2 up in this grill. Self aware hilarious madness. For people in the scene of these films you will totally get it. Normies might not but it's still gonna bite cha. Om nom nom. A multiverse of sharkness. Are you surreal enough to swim with us?@survivalzombiefilms does it again. #wildeyereleasing

#sharksploitation #Bmovies #Forever

[dailymoviegifs]

Every Film I've Seen in 2023: October (Part 2)

Puppet Master II (1990)

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)

Hell House LLC (2015)

Sharksploitation (2023)

Haunt (2019)

#movie list #film list #gif #puppet master 2 #i walked with a zombie #we're all going to the world's fair #hell house llc #sharksploitation #haunt

[halloweenhundreds]

Sharksploitation is a good look at the lead-up to Jaws, the aftermath, and the ways those ripple effects have spread out and continue today. I actually got a couple of movies for the list out of this. Besides, who doesn’t want to hear Joe Dante talk about more or less anything?

#halloween hundred #halloween hundreds #halloween #horror movies #halloween movie #horror film #horror #horror documentary #horror documentaries #documentaries #sharks #shark movies #sharksploitation #sharksploitation movie

[schlock-luster-video]

#sharknado #anthony c. ferrante #mockbuster #action thriller #b movies #horror movies #sci fi movies #action movies #the last drive in #monster movies #sharks #sharksploitation #mutant fam #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[moviesandmania]

THE REEF: STALKED (2022) Preview of sharksploitation - now with first trailer

THE REEF: STALKED (2022) Preview of sharksploitation – now with first��trailer

‘Welcome to paradise’ The Reef: Stalked is a 2022 action horror film about four young women on a kayaking trip who must defend themselves from a marauding shark. Written, co-produced and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water: Abyss; The Jungle; The ABCs of Death ‘G is for Gravity’ segment; The Reef; Black Water). Also produced by Jack Christian, Neal Kingston, Heather MacFarlane (line producer)…

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#2022 #Andrew Traucki #Ann Truong #Australian #horror #Kate Lister #movie film #release news #Saskia Hampele #sharksploitation #Teressa Liane #The Reef: Stalked #trailer

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

Sharksploitation

To see filmmakers, scientists and the people who made the movie discuss why JAWS 3-D (1983) didn’t work as the laughable special effects play out on screen is to enter movie geek heaven. That’s the joy of Stephen Scarlata’s SHARSKPLOITATION (2023, Shudder). The film offers a pretty comprehensive view of the phenomenon started by the original JAWS (1975) with commentary from much more informed talking heads than you would find in most horror documentaries. They offer a look at how sharks were treated in earlier films, how they figured in indigenous religions and when Western culture started treating them as monsters. Along with the JAWS franchise, which they acknowledge loses steam after the second film, they look at Italian ripoffs like the erotic shark film TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK (1977) and the shiver of ever-more-outlandish shark films that developed to meet the Syfy Channel’s need for original programing. There are so many, in fact, that Scarlata has to use split screens to capture the subgenre’s breadth. He even mines them for laughs when he shows multiple films with virtually identical scenes, like the standard trope, “Get out of the water.” It gets a little long when they get to the more serious shark films that have come along recently. After all the fun Syfy stuff, it feels like we have to get back to school. They also talk about films copying the format supposedly established by JAWS without acknowledging that that film’s structure mirrors the giant nuclear critter movies of the 1950s. And we really have to pay for the fun when they pound home the moral lesson that it’s fine to enjoy shark movies as long as we remember to protect the ocean. But any film with Roger Corman is OK by me. And as an added bonus, you get to see Fonzie jump that damned shark.

#film documentary #sharksploitation #jaws #roger corman #syfy channel

[thevideodungeon]

Santa Jaws (2018)

This is a movie about an evil shark that acquires Christmas-themed powers from eating an evil Santa, who is brought to life from a comic book with a magic pen. Do they explain any of this? No. Do they need to explain any of this? Also no. This movie is unashamedly stupid and never pretends to be anything else. It is absolutely lovely.

(5/10)

#christmas horror #sharksploitation #2010s #5/10 #horror #horror movies #monster movies #shark movies #shark horror #2010s horror

[thenefilim]

Review - Deep Fear (2023)

A lone sailor finds herself caught between smugglers trying to retrieve a fortune in cocaine from a sunken vessel and the sharks attracted by the dead bodies.

https://www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2023/11/04/deep-fear-2023-review/

#deep fear #movie review #voices from the balcony #horror movie #thriller #action film #creature feature #sharksploitation #sharks

[microsuedemouse]

can you please explain spielberg’s master plan 👀

hello I somehow didn't see this ask until today I'm sorry!!

okay so. context. my younger brother absolutely loves terrible Syfy original movies, and others in that vein. bad creature features especially. he has watched literally like three quarters of them, iirc. you've heard of the big ones like Lavalantula and the Sharknado franchise, but there's so much more than that.

he also has some health problems that affect his metabolism and weight, and he struggles to keep his weight above a certain minimum threshold. when his weight gets too low, which also makes him feel generally pretty unwell, he’ll typically spend a few days doing basically Nothing but watching movies and eating as much as he can.

so anyway. a few years ago he was in the midst of one of those binges, and decided to catch up on some of the more recent Bad Shark Movies. for some reason, I sat down to join him, and we had one hell of a time. we also had this interaction, which I immortalized on twitter, because I tweet a lot about both my family’s nonsense and whatever I’m watching.

[transcription: a tweet from myself, @/MicrosuedeMouse, at 3:51 pm on 2020-11-16. it reads:

Corwin is having a Bad Shark Movies day, and we were browsing the suggestions after watching Five-Headed Shark Attack-

me: “do you think Spielberg knew what he was doing when he made Jaws? could he have anticipated this?”

Corwin: “this is all part of Spielberg’s Master Plan”]

we went on later to watch the fifth Sharknado movie, which is one of the most unhinged films ever made, I think. HOWEVER. I loved the phrase “Spielberg’s Master Plan” way too much, and it soon became a shorthand term amongst us and our other sibling for the broader canon of Shark Movies. every single sharksploitation film ever made is part of Spielberg’s Master Plan.

as an aside, we watched 6-Headed Shark Attack roughly five months later, and it is an absolutely galaxy-brained movie. I couldn’t explain it to you if I tried, but I HAVE had this gif saved to my phone ever since. there is rarely ever cause to use it, but I’m obsessed with it all the same. the scene it’s from permanently altered my life.

(you may notice it only has four heads. don’t worry. the fifth and sixth heads show up later.)

🦈🦈🦈

#Spielberg’s Master Plan #sharksploitation #we haven’t gotten around to The Meg 2 yet but Corwin IS pumped about it #please please expand this post I need you to see the 6-Headed Shark Attack gif #family #Corwin #life

[tspoe-pods]

Not Charleton Heston tries to convince Not Kevin Kline that a giant shark is responsible for several deaths in this Not Jaws movie. #MovieReview #Sharksplotation #Bmovie

#movie review #horror #b movie #sharksploitation

[katieroo28]

🎇 KATIE’S JULY CHECK-IN 🎇

I’m super late on this, I know. I’ve had a lot going on lately but also I’ve been going out to see more movies lately which is always fun!

As always, let me know your thoughts and feel free to give me a follow on Letterboxd, Serialzd, and StoryGraph!

TOP FILMS

Asteroid City

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

Barbie

Chungking Express

Day of the Dead

Joy Ride

Oppenheimer

Sharksploitation

Talk to Me

Tour de Pharmacy

TOP TV

Dating Death

Invincible: Presenting Atom Eve

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York

The Real Housewives of New York City

The Righteous Gemstones

BOOKS READ

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ( 3 out of 5 Stars ⭐️)

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (1.5 out of 5 Stars ⭐️)

Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (3.5 out of 5 Stars ⭐️)

#katie’s monthly check in #letterboxd #film tumblr #asteroid city #are you there god? it's me margaret #barbie movie #chungking express #day of the dead #joy ride #oppenheimer #sharksploitation #talk to me #tour de pharmacy #serializd #tv review #dating death #invincible atom eve #last call hbo #rhony #the righteous gemstones #storygraph #booklr #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzanne collins #beauty queens #libba bray #paper girls #brian k. vaughan

[scarevalue]

New Scare Value Podcast episode: Jaws ( 1975)

A, pun intended, deep dive into a classic

Available wherever you podcast

#jaws #horror #horror movies #horror podcast #horror film #podcast #Shark #sharks #sharksploitation #Spotify

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2023.07.21

Friday, July 21st:

(exclusive): Almost Paradise (freevee, season 2 available, all 10 eps)

(movies): "They Cloned Tyrone" (netflix, sci-fi caper comedy, ~2hrs), "Stephen Curry: Underrated" (apple+, documentary), "Sharksploitation" (Shudder, horror movies documentary)

(streaming weekly): The Crowded Room (apple+, penultimate), Foundation (apple+), Swagger (apple+), The Summer I Turned Pretty (amazon), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Para+, season 8 finale), Untucked (Para+, "Grand Finale"), Love Allways (Para+, reality season 1 finale), Too Hot to Handle (netflix, next 3 eps)

(earlier - hour 0): Death in Paradise (OVAtion, season 8 marathon contd)

(original made-for-TV movies): "A Lifelong Love" (HMM, 2hrs)

(hour 1): Family Law (theCW), Outlander (Starz), The Villains of Valley View (disney) / . / Pretty Freekin Scary (disney, 60mins), Tough as Nails (CBS)

(hour 2): Moonshine (theCW), Minx (Starz, season 2 opener, new network), Pretty Freekin Scary (disney, contd), CMT Summer Sessions (CMT), The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs (Shudder, season 5B finale)

(hour 3): Praise Petey (Freeform, animated adult comedy, premiere, 60mins)

(hour 4 - latenight): Death in Paradise (OVAtion, marathon contd, season 8 finale)

#Minx #PraisePetey #AlmostParadise #TheyClonedTyrone #Sharksploitation #television