Howdy there, Scream Freaks! As many of you know, it’s Shark Week, and several horror host/YouTube reviewers are blowin’ their channels out with everything shark related right now. We want to do somethin’ in that same vein with a series of shark movie reviews we’ve been itchin’ to do since we started our show, but our hard pressed animation schedule usually prevents it from happenin’. Despite this hindrance, however, we still want to share with you the horrific shark movies we enjoy watchin’, excludin’ the big kahuna blockbusters like the Jaws and Sharknado series. These ain’t full reviews or even R-Rated Reviews, but just a heads up for killer fish flicks to watch out for if you’re lookin’ for things that step up the genre.
SHARKMAN aka HAMMERHEAD (2005)
William Forsythe’s gotta sink Jeffrey Combs’ mad science experiments for curin’ cancer, because they involve poor women bein’ mated with a mutant shark man who keeps eatin’ them! Fun movie with a great Street Sharks kinda monster stalkin’ people in the water and on land. We have plans for animating a review of this flick in the future. 4/5!
PETER BENCHLEY’S CREATURE (1998)
The U.S. Government creates a feral Stan Winston shark man for winning the Vietnam war but scraps the gene splicing project as soon as he goes on a frenzy. Decades later, the beast with teeth is accidentally freed and treats himself to some Caribbean islanders unless marine biologist Craig T. Nelson and his family can stop him! 3/5!
The tide carries a shark’s bloated corpse into a magical cave that manifests its spirit into free flyin’ ecto-terror with teeth! With water as its conduit, no one’s safe as you watch this lost Ghostbusters goober tear into folks from bubble baths to lawn sprinklers with Richard Moll playin’ its Ahab. 4/5!
Roger Corman brings us a freaky hybrid of a shark crossed with an octopus that gobbles you up at sea or on the beach! It’s military science gone horribly wrong with Eric Roberts racin’ to the rescue! 4/5!
If Tremors was less creative with its Jaws inspired graboids, then you’d have Sand Sharks. Sharks are literally swimmin’ through sand and threatenin’ a beach’s livelihood unless a professional partyer and Dr. Brooke Hogan can blow it up. Sounds like a silly movie, but fun characters and nice production value. 4/5!
And that’s pretty much it, Scream Freaks! The shark movies that instantly send us into a happy frenzy whenever they’re on TV, and we’d highly recommend each of these for a DVD purchase if you’re lookin’ to add some wild new stuff to your horror collection. We hope to have more shark movies to share in the near future, but these should be enough to hold you over for now.
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Jul 28, 2017 @ 16:51:13
That is a sweet artical you and mandy created there.Thanks a bunch for checking them out and can’t wait to see what you and mandy think f the rest.Enjoy shark week and hope you enjoy sharknado week coming this sunday on the syfy channel.
Jul 28, 2017 @ 17:39:26
Sure will!
Jul 28, 2017 @ 18:11:22
I know you can get the rest of the those movies on dvd now, but so far there has not been official dvd release of ghost shark yet.So any company out there who has the rights to this movie please release it already so we can finally enjoy it at home instead of waiting for it to come on syfy channel every time.
Jul 31, 2017 @ 14:01:43
Dito!
Aug 01, 2017 @ 17:46:29
You likin the new shark movies on syfy’s sharknado week.
Aug 01, 2017 @ 18:41:37
Not bad so far, but haven’t been able to give them our full attention yet for an honest review. Thanks for that SyFy schedule again!
Aug 01, 2017 @ 18:49:56
If don’t have the time to watch the new syfy channel shark movies.If you have comcast cable you can watch them on demand if not I’ll send you the links to them when they come up.
Aug 02, 2017 @ 13:42:19
That’s okay. We’re capturin’ them on the DVR and they should be poppin’ up on Syfy’s on demand channel. Thanks for all the help none the less!
Aug 02, 2017 @ 14:11:45
Checking out the short live series filmonsters from fullmoon that tells new stories staring the classic universal monsters to the young audience.I wish Band would continue to finish the rest of the classic monsters instead of just the wolfman and frankenstein’s monster.I don’t know why he pulled the plug on filmnsters since it teased about dracula and the mummy from the old trailer it displayed.
Aug 02, 2017 @ 18:12:08
While it’s not part of that series, we did kind of get the Invisible Man with “Invisible” aka “Mandroid pt 2!”