Unfortunately, such has proven not to be the case. These few brief images gave anticipatory hope that a bloody nail-biting tension-ridden thriller akin to “Jaws” was on the horizon. Not wanting to be left out of the bloody waters of the genre, summer 2016 brings us two shark movies, the first being THE SHALLOWS, and the second “In the Deep”.Īlready having seen an early version of “In the Deep” and admittedly excited for its August release, since seeing a first trailer for this weekend’s THE SHALLOWS, I have been impatiently gnashing my teeth awaiting it – a woman stranded, on a rock, in the middle of the ocean, tide rising, and shark circling. (Yes, shark movies are their own genre or sub-genre.) But since 1975’s seminal sharkbuster “Jaws”, good quality shark movies have been few and far between but for a few exceptions such as “Open Water” and “Deep Blue Sea”. Sure, we’ve all been swept up into the “Sharknado” frenzy of the past few years (with Jalready circled in blood red on the calendar for “Sharknado 4″), but that speaks to our feral bloodlust and love of over-the-top implausible disaster scenarios, as do so many of the “Sharktopus”, “Shark Attack”, “Megashark” “Super Shark” and “Ghost Shark” entries in the genre. It’s been a long time since audiences have had a “killer” shark movie to bite into.
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