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To love a shark film

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Mammyloveswine · 08/08/2022 22:16

Currently sat watching "Great White" on sky cinema... it got a 1 star waiting.. im loving it!!

Please tell me I am not alone in my love for a good shark film? Also any recommendations on others I might not have seen!

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Mammyloveswine · 05/09/2022 22:10

NoseyNellie · 02/09/2022 23:48

Bait (2012)

Taunami hits Australian coast and the customers and staff of a supermarket end up trapped in the flooded building with a great white.

(apologies if this has already been posted, thread is tl;dr)

Hahaha I loved that

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Mammyloveswine · 05/09/2022 22:12

giffyg · 09/08/2022 20:36

@Mammyloveswine have you seen the sequel to 47m?

Is that the one with the underwater caves?! I have no idea WHY anyone would want to go through caves let alone underwater!!!

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JubileeTissues · 05/09/2022 22:18

Where can I find Fall please?!

JubileeTissues · 05/09/2022 22:31

Oh. At the cinema 😏

Was just about to get out of bed and go and watch that! Never mind

Norma27 · 05/09/2022 22:35

I do like them but not so much since I found out a friend of a friend was killed by a great white shark in Australia. It is just too bizarre for me now as I know people affected.

DiscoBadgers · 05/09/2022 22:35

I too have found my people!!!

DiscoBadgers · 05/09/2022 22:36

Also quite partial to an alligator/crocodile film

Sunnytwobridges · 05/09/2022 22:37

I love love shark films and stranded at sea films. Some of my favs are Jaws (of course!), The Reef, Adrift, 47 meters down, Open Water 3, The Shallows.

VanillaIce1 · 05/09/2022 22:42

Are you my husband OP? He loves them and is always confused on why I don't like films about sharks!

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 05/09/2022 22:46

I love this spoof shark film trailer:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYvTiiBR9Q

Myownpapillon · 05/09/2022 23:13

Shark Night is up their with my all time faves. Quite liked The Meg aswell.

WhackingPhoenix · 05/09/2022 23:20

We rented Maneater on Amazon last night and it was pretty good!

CheapBeersFilledwithCrocodileTears · 05/09/2022 23:37

Ring me into this thread! I LOVE these type of movies when I’m feeling at my absolute worst and I just can’t handle anything that might make me cry or feel anything more. These, and action movies with lots of explosions. They fill the same “escape” need for me. My DH still considers watching Ice Spiders as the lowest I’ve gone; now THAT is a great “terrible” film. You can’t recognize a single actor, nothing about it makes any sense, and I think the special effects may have been done for £5 in Photoshop by secondary students as a part-time job.

That said, there are some really great crap monster films from the 90s with some 90s actors you wouldn’t believe. Like the original Anaconda stars J Lo, Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, and Ice Cube. I love that film! Lake Placid (crocs!) stars Bill Pullman and Betty White. Tremors (I won’t ruin what the monster is) with Kevin Bacon and a whole load of other people. Arachnophobia is also great, jammed with 90s stars, and ridiculous.

I feel like you have to really appreciate the classics before you can find true love with a soon-to-be BAFTA winner like Killer Croc vs Mega Shark

steppon · 05/09/2022 23:39

@CheapBeersFilledwithCrocodileTears I love all those films.

CheapBeersFilledwithCrocodileTears · 05/09/2022 23:44

@steppon You have excellent taste! I liked the second Anaconda, too. (Something of the Blood Orchid?) It had a bunch of B list actors I recognized from bits and pieces.

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Mammyloveswine · 06/09/2022 07:41

CheapBeersFilledwithCrocodileTears · 05/09/2022 23:37

Ring me into this thread! I LOVE these type of movies when I’m feeling at my absolute worst and I just can’t handle anything that might make me cry or feel anything more. These, and action movies with lots of explosions. They fill the same “escape” need for me. My DH still considers watching Ice Spiders as the lowest I’ve gone; now THAT is a great “terrible” film. You can’t recognize a single actor, nothing about it makes any sense, and I think the special effects may have been done for £5 in Photoshop by secondary students as a part-time job.

That said, there are some really great crap monster films from the 90s with some 90s actors you wouldn’t believe. Like the original Anaconda stars J Lo, Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, and Ice Cube. I love that film! Lake Placid (crocs!) stars Bill Pullman and Betty White. Tremors (I won’t ruin what the monster is) with Kevin Bacon and a whole load of other people. Arachnophobia is also great, jammed with 90s stars, and ridiculous.

I feel like you have to really appreciate the classics before you can find true love with a soon-to-be BAFTA winner like Killer Croc vs Mega Shark

Oh I can remember watching tremors as a child!! And love the original anaconda!!

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Rubyupbeat · 06/09/2022 08:04

I also used to love a good shark attack film, but I started to watch conservationists that swim with all types of sharks, including great whites and they say these type of films do so much damage to the reputation of sharks, which leads to the hunting of them.
To watch them swim with these creatures is amazing, it shows how inquisitive they are and how they don't blindly attack.
There's lots of these films on Instagram.

Cakecakecheese · 06/09/2022 08:28

I met a guy who mentioned he liked the Sharknado films. We're now engaged and have a baby just because of that. Oh OK not really, but it is nice to have someone to watch things like Giant Shark vs Mega Octopus and Sharktopus with 🥰

Brefugee · 06/09/2022 08:30

I love them. Was beside myself when i saw the first Sharknado. Sharks in the Supermarket is brilliant as well as all the X-headed Shark Attack ones.

Not to be missed is one called something like Sharktopus vs Zombie Shark.
Special mention: Sharks in the snow.

ExcaliburBaby · 11/09/2022 08:08

This thread has inspired a bit of a rewatch - recently have rewatched Open Water, 47 Meters Down and last night Shark Night. Shark Night a bit rubbish but I think 47 Meters Down is really good!

ExcaliburBaby · 11/09/2022 08:09

oh and as I’ve not seen it mentioned I seem to remember Sand Sharks is ok! (Silly obviously - but ok!)

FuzzyPuffling · 11/09/2022 08:13

Benjaminsniddlegrass · 08/08/2022 23:11

I will raise you Sharknado and give you Sharks in Venice! One of my favourite scenes features a shark leaping from the canal in Venice to kill someone on the beach. Starring the poor man's Baldwin brother and it even features the Illuminati. Many other shark films are fun but none will beat this B movie beauty!

I came on this thread just to say "Sharks in Venice". It is hilarious and utterly daft, but takes itself seriously, which makes it funnier.

Definitely my go to shark film.

DinosaurFarmer · 11/09/2022 08:28

Definitely my people! Have seen and loved most of the films mentioned and will be searching for the few I haven't to watch later as am sick in bec at the moment.

Absolutely love a Creature Feature! 😁

steppon · 11/09/2022 09:07

There's a film coming out called Alphas which is killer whales vs 🦈, looks good!

KimberleyClark · 11/09/2022 09:14

Mammyloveswine · 05/09/2022 22:12

Is that the one with the underwater caves?! I have no idea WHY anyone would want to go through caves let alone underwater!!!

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Sanctum is a good underwater cave film though there are no scary creatures in it.